Re: DM: Medical data mining: successful examples?

[Kamal M Ali]

Hello Rao,
        IBM has done work in applying data-mining to patient
        records. Specifically the project used association rules to
        look for medical tests that could be predicted from
        combinations of other medical tests. We represented
        data/information about the patient as well as his/her medical
        history in association rule format rather than the ususal
        fixed col format cuz this is a variable information length
        problem which cannot usefully be converted into the usual
        fixed-lenght type of formats used by conventional
        classification/predeiction tools. There is also a paper on
        this in KDD 97 by myself, Srikant Ramakrishnan and Stefanos
        Manganaris.
Kamal.
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