Data Mining Frequent Disease Essay

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Mining frequent disease from medical data using association rule mining technique

Abstract
Health care industry today generates large amounts of complex data for patients, hospitals facilities, diseases, disease diagnostic methods, electronic patients records, etc .The data mining techniques are very useful to make medicinal decisions, specially to analyze the information about frequently occurring disease from large dataset obtained from hospital so that in future healthcare administrator will able to improve the quality of service. Until now some works done on this where they had collected medical data from particular area and improve the accuracy of classification, increase in the prediction of various diseases. But here in the proposed technique work will be done on mining the frequent disease of patients in different geographical area at given time period.
Frequent diseases are those diseases which are occurring large number of times in the dataset. The data collection regarding these sorts of diseases can be done through association rule. Apriori Algorithm of the Association rule is used for the mining of frequent diseases.

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The information can be transformed into knowledge about historical patterns and future trends. Data mining perform a significant role in the field of information technology. Health care industry today produce large amounts of complex data about patients, hospitals facilities, diseases, disease diagnosis methods, electronic patients records, etc, techniques of data mining are very essential for making medicinal decisions in curing diseases. The healthcare industry collects large amount of healthcare data which, unfortunately, are not “mined” to discover hidden information for effective decision making. The discovered knowledge can be analyzed by the healthcare administrators to improve the quality of

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