Data Science for Healthcare Methodologies and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Consoli, Sergio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Reforgiato Recupero, Diego (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Petković, Milan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Data mining.; Artificial intelligence.; Health informatics.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Artificial Intelligence.; Health Informatics.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

This book seeks to promote the exploitation of data science in healthcare systems. The focus is on advancing the automated analytical methods used to extract new knowledge from data for healthcare applications. To do so, the book draws on several interrelated disciplines, including machine learning,...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Challenges and Basic Technologies
• Data Science in healthcare: benefits, challenges and opportunities
• Introduction to Classification Algorithms and their Performance Analysis using Medical Examples
• The role of deep learning in improving healthcare
• Part II: Specific Technologies and Applications
• Making effective use of healthcare data using data-to-text technology
• Clinical Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
• Ontology-based Knowledge Management for Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and Reminiscence Therapy on Social Robots
• Assistive Robots for the elderly: innovative tools to gather health relevant data
• Overview of data linkage methods for integrating separate health data sources
• A Flexible Knowledge-based Architecture For Supporting The Adoption of Healthy Lifestyles with Persuasive Dialogs
• Visual Analytics for Classifier Construction and Evaluation for Medical Data
• Data Visualization in Clinical Practice
• Using process analytics to improve healthcare processes
• A Multi-Scale Computational Approach to Understanding Cancer Metabolism
• Leveraging healthcare financial analytics for improving the health of entire populations.