Intelligent Decision Support Systems A Journey to Smarter Healthcare

The goal of this book is to provide, in a friendly and refreshing manner, both theoretical concepts and practical techniques for the important and exciting field of Artificial Intelligence that can be directly applied to real-world healthcare problems. Healthcare the final frontier. Lately, it seems like Pandora opened the box and evil was released into the world. Fortunately, there was one thing left in the box: hope. In recent decades, hope has been increasingly represented by Intelligent Decision Support Systems. Their continuing mission: to explore strange new diseases, to seek out new treatments and drugs, and to intelligently manage healthcare resources and patients. Hence, this book is designed for all those who wish to learn how to explore, analyze and find new solutions for the most challenging domain of all time: healthcare.

Provides both theoretical concepts and practical techniques for the important and exciting field of computer technology applied to healthcare Includes recent research on intelligent decision support systems in healthcare Presents a roadmap to smarter healthcare

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Era of intelligent systems in healthcare.- A brief history of intelligent decision support systems.- How can intelligent decision support systems help the medical research.- Data mining-based intelligent decision support systems.- Intelligent systems and the healthcare revolution.