Full Description
This class-tested textbook is designed for a semester-long graduate or senior undergraduate course on Computational Health Informatics. The focus of the book is on computational techniques that are widely used in health data analysis and health informatics and it integrates computer science and clinical perspectives. This book prepares computer science students for careers in computational health informatics and medical data analysis.
Features
Integrates computer science and clinical perspectives
Describes various statistical and artificial intelligence techniques, including machine learning techniques such as clustering of temporal data, regression analysis, neural networks, HMM, decision trees, SVM, and data mining, all of which are techniques used widely used in health-data analysis
Describes computational techniques such as multidimensional and multimedia data representation and retrieval, ontology, patient-data deidentification, temporal data analysis, heterogeneous databases, medical image analysis and transmission, biosignal analysis, pervasive healthcare, automated text-analysis, health-vocabulary knowledgebases and medical information-exchange
Includes bioinformatics and pharmacokinetics techniques and their applications to vaccine and drug development
Contents
Preface
Chapter Outlines
Classroom Use of this Textbook
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1 Introduction
2 Fundamentals
3 Intelligent Data Analysis Techniques
4 Healthcare Data Organization
5 Medical Imaging Informatics
6 DICOM - Medical Image Communication
7 Bioelectric and Biomagnetic Signal Analysis
8 Clinical Data Analytics
9 Pervasive Health and Remote Care
10 Disease Prediction and Drug Development
11 End-User's Emotion and Satisfaction
Contributed by Leon Sterling
12 Conclusion
Appendix I: Websites for Healthcare Standards
Appendix II: Healthcare-Related Conferences and Journals
Appendix III: Health Informatics Related Organizations
Appendix IV: Health Informatics Database Resources
Appendix V: Selected Companies in Healthcare Industry
Index
