Review on Data Mining Techniques in Healthcare Sector

Abstract

State-of-the-art open-source data mining suites are in boon for extraction from voluminous data to the required useful data. New techniques are required owing to the size and complexity of data collections in different dimensions like: administration, business and science. Today is an era of diseases where they are the major causes of death. The rising growth of medical problems has given popularity to use data mining techniques. Data mining has potentially improved the clinical decisions and survival time of patients. Choosing the appropriate data mining technique is the main task because accuracy is the main issue. Earlier diagnosis done was based on doctor’s experience or expertise but still wrong cases were reported. The objective is to give an exposure on variety of data mining techniques used with the most effective technique among the all techniques, so that the researchers can have direction to research on incurable diseases which are costliest diseases so as to save money and lives of the patient.