Overview
- Connects machine learning, big data analytics, statistics, pattern recognition, computer vision, and Semantic Web technologies to healthcare applications.
- Highlights the successful application of these technologies in various healthcare areas.
- Intended for data scientists involved in the healthcare or medical sector.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Specific Technologies and Applications
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Building on three tutorial-like chapters on data science in healthcare, the following eleven chapters highlight success stories on the application of data science in healthcare, where data science and artificial intelligence technologies have proven to be very promising.
This book is primarily intended for data scientists involved in the healthcare or medical sector. By reading this book, they will gain essential insights into the modern data science technologies needed to advance innovation for both healthcare businesses and patients. A basic grasp of data science is recommended in order to fully benefit from this book.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Diego Reforgiato Recupero is Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari, Italy. His interests span from Semantic Web, graph theory and smart grid optimization to sentiment analysis, data mining, big data, machine and deep learning and natural language processing. He is also affiliated within the ISTC institute at the National Research Council (CNR) and co-founder of six ICT companies two of which are university spin-offs. He is author of more than 90 journal, conference papers and book chapters in his research domains.
Milan Petković is the head of the Data Science department in Philips Research which conducts innovation projects for Philips in the domain of data analytics, advanced data management and security. He is also a part-time full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Among his research interests are data science, big data analytics, information security and privacy protection. Milan is also a vice president of the Big Data Value Association, which supports big data public private partnership. He has published more than 50 journal and conference papers as well as several books including a book on “Security, Privacy and Trust in Modern Data Management”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Data Science for Healthcare
Book Subtitle: Methodologies and Applications
Editors: Sergio Consoli, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Milan Petković
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05249-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05248-5Published: 07 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05249-2Published: 23 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 367
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 82 illustrations in colour
Topics: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics, Health Informatics, Information Storage and Retrieval, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)