Current research directions are looking at Data Mining (DM) and Knowledge Management (KM) as complementary and interrelated felds, aimed at supporting, with algorithms and tools, the lifecycle of knowledge, including its discovery, formalization, retrieval, reuse, and update. While DM focuses on the extraction of patterns, information, and ultimately knowledge from data (Giudici, 2003; Fayyad et al., 1996; Bellazzi, Zupan, 2008), KM deals with eliciting, representing, and storing explicit knowledge, as well as keeping and externalizing tacit knowledge (Abidi, 2001; Van der Spek, Spijkervet, 1997). Although DM and KM have stemmed from different cultural backgrounds and their methods and tools are. | PREMIER REFERENCE SOURCE DATA MINING AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT CASES AND APPLICATIONS Petr Berka. Jan Rauch Djamel Abdelkader Zighed Data Mining and Medical Knowledge Management Cases and Applications Petr Berka University of Economics Prague Czech Republic Jan Rauch University of Economics Prague Czech Republic Djamel Abdelkader Zighed University of Lumiere Lyon 2 France Medical Information Science MEDICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE REFERENCE Reference Hershey New York Director of Editorial Content Managing Editor Assistant Managing Editor Typesetter Cover Design Printed at Kristin Klinger Jamie Snavely Carole Coulson Sean Woznicki Lisa Tosheff Yurchak Printing Inc. Published in the United States of America by Information Science Reference an imprint of IGI Global 701 E. Chocolate Avenue Suite 200 Hershey PA 17033 Tel 717-533-8845 Fax 717-533-8661 E-mail cust@ Web site http reference and in the United Kingdom by Information Science Reference an imprint of IGI Global 3 Henrietta Street Covent Garden London WC2E 8LU Tel 44 20 7240 0856 Fax 44 20 7379 0609 Web site http Copyright 2009 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored or distributed in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying without written permission from the publisher. Product or company names used in this set are for identification purposes only. Inclusion of the names of the products or companies does not indicate a claim of ownership by IGI Global of the trademark or registered trademark. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Data mining and medical knowledge management cases and applications Petr Berka Jan Rauch and Djamel Abdelkader Zighed editors. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary This book presents 20 case studies on applications of various modern data mining methods in several important areas of medicine covering classical
