Intelligent analysis of long-term patient survival after pacemaker implantation

In the recent years intelligent systems proved to be a useful and successful tool which has often been used for decision support, data mining and knowledge discovery in medicine. Data mining and knowledge discovery enable to prove existing hypothesis or to generate new ones - thus they in longer term support the advancement of medicine as a scientific discipline and as a consequence developing new treatment, prediction and diagnosing methods directly helping clinicians. In this paper we present the results of intelligent data analysis used for determining important factors for long-term patient's survival after pacemaker implantation. The study included 2207 patients which had their first pacemaker implantation during 1966 and 2001 in Slovenia