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Chapter and Conference Paper
Recommendation of Medical Exams to Support Clinical Diagnosis Based on Patient’s Symptoms
Nowadays, it is essential that the error in the decisions made by health professionals is as small as possible. This applies to any medical area, including the recommendation of medical exams based on certain ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Prediction Models for Coronary Heart Disease
In the current days, it is known that a great amount of effort is being applied to improving healthcare with the use of Artificial Intelligence technologies in order to assist healthcare professionals in the d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detecting Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Data Mining
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a set disorders development, social and communication skills, and behavior of affected individuals. The faster traces of ASD are identified, the faster the stimulatio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Medical Recommendation System Based on Daily Clinical Reports: A Proposed NLP Approach for Emergency Departments
The operational management of an emergency department (ED) requires more attention from hospital administration since it can have a global impact on the institution’s management, increasing the probability of ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Classification of Dementia in Adults
is a broad for a large of conditions, it is often associated with Alzheimer’s disease. A diagnosis of this disease, in the early stages, prevent further complications. As such, machine learning a...
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Article
Different Scenarios for the Prediction of Hospital Readmission of Diabetic Patients
Hospitals generate large amounts of data on a daily basis, but most of the time that data is just an overwhelming amount of information which never transitions to knowledge. Through the application of Data Min...
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Article
Data Mining for Cardiovascular Disease Prediction
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) aredisorders of the heart and blood vessels and are a major cause of disability and premature death worldwide. Individuals at higher risk of develo** CVD must be noticed at an ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Data Mining Classification Techniques
Diabetic retinopathy is one of the complications of diabetes that affects the small vessels of the retina, being the main cause of blindness in adults. An early detection of this disease is essential, as it ca...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Step Towards Predicting Patient Length of Stay in Intensive Care Units
Increasingly, hospitals are collecting huge amounts of data through new storage methods. These data can be use to extract hidden knowledge, which can be crucial to estimate the length of stay of admitted patie...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data Mining for the Prediction of Fetal Malformation Through Cardiotocography Data
Despite advances in technology and health, the number of maternal and fetal deaths during and after pregnancy and childbirth remains significant. Most of these deaths could be avoided if there was prenatal car...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Prediction Models for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Using Data Mining
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome is an endocrine abnormality that occurs in the female reproductive system and is considered a heterogeneous disorder because of the different criteria used for its diagnosis. Early de...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data Mining Approach to Classify Cases of Lung Cancer
According to the World Cancer Research Fund, a leading authority on cancer prevention research, lung cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer in men and the third most commonly occurring cancer in women, w...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A CRISP-DM Approach for Predicting Liver Failure Cases: An Indian Case Study
We are currently living a period in which data processing and analysis are increasingly relevant and the health sector is no exception. In this way, through data mining processes, it is possible to make a numb...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data Mining Approach to Understand the Association Between Mental Disorders and Unemployment
Over the years, mental illness has affected the life of numerous human beings and nowadays is a matter of great concern. The problems that arise with this clinical condition, such as social isolation, unemploy...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Review of Trends in Automatic Human Activity Recognition in Vehicle Based in Synthetic Data
Driverless vehicles are more and more becoming a reality. However, people still have some concerns in using them, the main concern is fear, hence the importance of creating a surveillance system inside those v...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Prediction of Length of Stay for Stroke Patients Using Artificial Neural Networks
Strokes are neurological events that affect a certain area of the brain. Since brain controls fundamental body activities, brain cell deterioration and dead can lead to serious disabilities and poor life qual...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Steps Towards Online Monitoring Systems and Interoperability
In the health area, there is, on a daily basis, an enormous amount of data being produced and disseminated. The fast-growing amount of collected data and the rich knowledge, possibly life-saving, that could be...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving Healthcare Delivery with New Interactive Visualization Methods
Over the last years, the implementation and evolution of computer resources in hospital institutions has been improving both the financial and temporal efficiency of clinical processes, as well as the securit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A MRI View of Brain Tumor Outcome Prediction
On the one hand, cancer and tumor are one of the most feared terms in today’s society. It refers to an unstable growth of cells that potentially invade the surrounding tissues and may eventually lead to edema or ...
