Journal Article

Big data analytics for preventive medicine

Razzak, Muhammad Imran, Imran, Muhammad, Xu, Guandong

2020

Overview

Medical data is one of the most rewarding and yet most complicated data to analyze. How can healthcare providers use modern data analytics tools and technologies to analyze and create value from complex data? Data analytics, with its promise to efficiently discover valuable pattern by analyzing large amount of unstructured, heterogeneous, non-standard and incomplete healthcare data. It does not only forecast but also helps in decision making and is increasingly noticed as breakthrough in ongoing advancement with the goal is to improve the quality of patient care and reduces the healthcare cost. The aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive and structured overview of extensive research on the advancement of data analytics methods for disease prevention. This review first introduces disease prevention and its challenges followed by traditional prevention methodologies. We summarize state-of-the-art data analytics algorithms used for classification of disease, clustering (unusually high incidence of a particular disease), anomalies detection (detection of disease) and association as well as their respective advantages, drawbacks and guidelines for selection of specific model followed by discussion on recent development and successful application of disease prevention methods. The article concludes with open research challenges and recommendations.

• Publisher: Springer London,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Algorithms / Anomalies / Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Clustering / Cognitive Computing for Intelligent Application and Service / Computational Biology/Bioinformatics / Computational Science and Engineering / Computer Science / Data analysis / Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery / Decision making / Disease prevention / Health care / Image Processing and Computer Vision / Mathematical analysis / Pattern analysis / Probability and Statistics in Computer Science