Biomedical Informatics: Discovering Knowledge in Big Data

✍ Scribed by Andreas Holzinger (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 565
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a broad overview of the topic Bioinformatics with focus on data, information and knowledge. From data acquisition and storage to visualization, ranging through privacy, regulatory and other practical and theoretical topics, the author touches several fundamental aspects of the innovative interface between Medical and Technology domains that is Biomedical Informatics. Each chapter starts by providing a useful inventory of definitions and commonly used acronyms for each topic and throughout the text, the reader finds several real-world examples, methodologies and ideas that complement the technical and theoretical background. This new edition includes new sections at the end of each chapter, called "future outlook and research avenues," providing pointers to future challenges. At the beginning of each chapter a new section called "key problems", has been added, where the author discusses possible traps and unsolvable or major problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Lecture 1 Introduction: Computer Science Meets Life Science....Pages 1-56
Lecture 2 Fundamentals of Data, Information, and Knowledge....Pages 57-107
Lecture 3 Structured Data: Coding and Classification....Pages 109-152
Lecture 4 Biomedical Databases: Acquisition, Storage, Information Retrieval, and Use....Pages 153-202
Lecture 5 Semi-structured, Weakly Structured, and Unstructured Data....Pages 203-249
Lecture 6 Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery....Pages 251-298
Lecture 7 Knowledge and Decision: Cognitive Science and Human–Computer Interaction....Pages 299-343
Lecture 8 Biomedical Decision Making: Reasoning and Decision Support....Pages 345-377
Lecture 9 Interactive Information Visualization and Visual Analytics....Pages 379-420
Lecture 10 Biomedical Information Systems and Medical Knowledge Management....Pages 421-458
Lecture 11 Biomedical Data: Privacy, Safety, and Security....Pages 459-499
Lecture 12 Methodology for Information Systems: System Design, Usability, and Evaluation....Pages 501-545
Back Matter....Pages 547-551

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Biomedical Engineering; Mathematical and Computational Biology; Bioinformatics