Author : Mahak

Data Mining has an essential & vital role now days. It has been used intensively and broadly by several organizations such as e-business, marketing and retail because of which it is now applicable in knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) in many industrial areas and economy. Data mining is greatly gaining its importance and usage in the healthcare industry. Patient centric data, their treatment data and resource management data all are included in Health Care industry. It has huge amount of data, but unfortunately most of this data is not mined to find out hidden information in data. Advanced data mining techniques can be used to discover hidden patterns on healthcare data. This paper includes the investigation of present methods of KDD and briefly examines the prospective use of classification based data mining techniques such as decision tree and Artificial Neural Network to enormous volume of healthcare data.

Keywords: Data Mining, Healthcare, Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), Decision tree, Artificial Neural Network.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.1 (Feb-2017)