Categorized and integrated data mining of medical data

Abstract

In this chapter, we introduce categorized and integrated data mining. Because of recent rapid progress in medical science as well as medical diagnosis and treatment, integrated and cooperative research among medical researches, biology, engineering, cultural science, and sociology is required. Therefore, we propose a framework called Cyber Integrated Medical Infrastructure (CIMI) which is a framework of integrated management of medical data on computer networks consisting of a database, a knowledge base, and an inference and learning component, which are connected to each other in the network. Within this framework, we can deal with various types of data. Consequently, we need to integratedly analyze various types of data. In this study, for medical science, we analyze the features and relationships among various types of data and show the possibility of categorized and integrated data mining. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.