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Biomedical — Medical Informatics

Biomedical — Medical Informatics

Too much data to analyze in a time efficient manner is a problem for both researchers and practitioners. A decision support system (DSS) which can perform automated analysis of the massive amounts of data would allow algorithms to do much of the preprocessing and initial discovery in order to point researchers in interesting directions. The tools need to present a uniform, integrated view of the data which is easy to interpret. Providing this capability will free medical researcher of much labor-intensive analysis work and allowing the research effort to be spent on question that enhance the understanding of disease and disease processes.

There have been several areas that have been proposed for which the decision support system should help medical doctors.

1. Early detection of disease (e.g. Liver Cirrhosis)
2. Prediction of biopsy results given a set of test results
3. Indicate statistic confidence in predictions
4. Avoid unnecessary costs and tests