Data mining techniques for medical data: A review

Data mining is an important area of research and is pragmatically used in different domains like finance, clinical research, education, healthcare etc. Further, the scope of data mining have thoroughly been reviewed and surveyed by many researchers pertaining to the domain of healthcare which is an active interdisciplinary area of research. In fact, the task of knowledge extraction from the medical data is a challenging endeavor and it is a complex task. The main motive of this review paper is to give a review of data mining in the purview of healthcare. Moreover, intertwining and interrelation of previous researches have been presented in a novel manner. Furthermore, merits and demerits of frequently used data mining techniques in the domain of health care and medical data have been compared. The use of different data mining tasks in health care is also discussed. An analytical approach regarding the uniqueness of medical data in health care is also presented.