Biomedical Data Mining for Information Retrieval Methodologies, Techniques, and Applications

This book not only emphasizes traditional computational techniques, but discusses data mining, biomedical image processing, information retrieval with broad coverage of basic scientific applications.

Biomedical Data Mining for Information Retrieval comprehensively covers the topic of mining biomedical text, images and visual features towards information retrieval. Biomedical and health informatics is an emerging field of research at the intersection of information science, computer science, and healthcare and brings tremendous opportunities and challenges due to easily available and abundant biomedical data for further analysis. The aim of healthcare informatics is to ensure the high-quality, efficient healthcare, better treatment and quality of life by analyzing biomedical and healthcare data including patient’s data, electronic health records (EHRs) and lifestyle. Previously, it was a common requirement to have a domain expert to develop a model for biomedical or healthcare; however, recent advancements in representation learning algorithms allows us to automatically to develop the model. Biomedical image mining, a novel research area, due to the vast amount of available biomedical images, increasingly generates and stores digitally. These images are mainly in the form of computed tomography (CT), X-ray, nuclear medicine imaging (PET, SPECT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound. Patients’ biomedical images can be digitized using data mining techniques and may help in answering several important and critical questions relating to healthcare. Image mining in medicine can help to uncover new relationships between data and reveal new useful information that can be helpful for doctors in treating their patients.

Audience

Researchers in various fields including computer science, medical informatics, healthcare IOT, artificial intelligence, machine learning, image processing, clinical big data analytics.

Sujata Dash received her PhD in Computational Modeling from Berhampur University, Orissa, India in 1995. She is an associate professor in P.G. Department of Computer Science & Application, North Orissa University, at Baripada, India. She has published more than 80 technical papers in international journals, conferences, book chapters and has authored 5 books.

Subhendu Kumar Pani received his PhD from Utkal University Odisha, India in 2013. He is working as Professor in the Krupajal Computer Academy, BPUT, Odisha, India.

S. Balamurugan is the Director-Research and Development, Intelligent Research Consultancy Services(iRCS), Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. His PhD is in Infomation Technology and he has published 45 books, 200+ international journals/conferences and 35 patents.

Ajith Abraham received PhD in Computer Science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in 2001. He is Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) which has members from 100+ countries. Ajith’s research experience includes over 30 years in the industry and academia. He has authored / co-authored over 1300+ publications (with colleagues from nearly 40 countries) and has an h-index of 86+.