Data Science in the Medical Field

· Elsevier
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Data science has the potential to influence and improve fundamental services such as the healthcare sector. This book recognizes this fact by analyzing the potential uses of data science in healthcare. Every human body produces 2 TB of data each day. This information covers brain activity, stress level, heart rate, blood sugar level, and many other things. More sophisticated technology, such as data science, allows clinicians and researchers to handle such a massive volume of data to track the health of patients. The book focuses on the potential and the tools of data science to identify the signs of illness at an extremely early stage. - Shows how improving automated analytical techniques can be used to generate new information from data for healthcare applications - Combines a number of related fields, with a particular emphasis on machine learning, big data analytics, statistics, pattern recognition, computer vision, and semantic web technologies - Provides information on the cutting-edge data science tools required to accelerate innovation for healthcare organizations and patients by reading this book

About the author

Seifedine Kadry is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, at Norrof University College, in Norway. He has a Bachelor's degree in 1999 from Lebanese University, MS degree in 2002 from Reims University (France) and EPFL (Lausanne), PhD in 2007 from Blaise Pascal University (France), HDR degree in 2017 from Rouen University. At present, his research focuses on data Science, education using technology, system prognostics, stochastic systems, and applied mathematics. He is an ABET program evaluator for computing, and ABET program evaluator for Engineering Tech. He is a Fellow of IET, Fellow of IETE, and Fellow of IACSIT. He is a distinguished speaker of IEEE Computer Society.Shubham Mahajan is a distinguished academic and professional member of prestigious organizations such as IEEE, ACM, and IAENG. He specializes in artificial intelligence and image processing, holding eighteen Indian patents along with one each from Australia and Germany. His contributions to the field are further evidenced by his publications, which includes over 94 articles published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and 10 edited books.

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