Biological And Medical Data Analysis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Biological and Medical Data Analysis, ISBMDA 2004, held in Barcelona, Spain in November 2004. The 50 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data analysis for image processing, data visualization, decision support systems, information retrieval, knowledge discovery and data mining, statistical methods and tools, time series analysis, data management and analysis in bioinformatics, integration of biological and medical data, metabolic data and pathways, and microarray data analysis and visualization.

Introduces biological concepts and biotechnologies producing the data, graph and network theory, cluster analysis and machine learning, using real-world biological and medical examples.

As technology evolves and electronic data becomes more complex, digital medical record management and analysis becomes a challenge. In order to discover patterns and make relevant predictions based on large data sets, researchers and medical professionals must find new methods to analyze and extract relevant health information. Big Data Analytics in Bioinformatics and Healthcare merges the fields of biology, technology, and medicine in order to present a comprehensive study on the emerging information processing applications necessary in the field of electronic medical record management. Complete with interdisciplinary research resources, this publication is an essential reference source for researchers, practitioners, and students interested in the fields of biological computation, database management, and health information technology, with a special focus on the methodologies and tools to manage massive and complex electronic information.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Biological and Medical Data Analysis, ISBMDA 2005, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in November 2005. The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on medical databases and information systems, data analysis and image processing, knowledge discovery and data mining, statistical methods and tools for biomedical data analysis, decision support systems, collaborative systems in biomedical informatics, as well as computational models, structural analysis, and microarray data analysis in the scope of bioinformatics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Biological and Medical Data Analysis, ISBMDA 2006, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, December 2006. Coverage in this volume includes functional genomics, sequence analysis, biomedical models, information modeling, biomedical signal processing, biomedical image analysis, biomedical data analysis, as well as decision support systems and diagnostic tools.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Biological and Medical Data Analysis, ISBMDA 2006, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, December 2006. Coverage in this volume includes functional genomics, sequence analysis, biomedical models, information modeling, biomedical signal processing, biomedical image analysis, biomedical data analysis, as well as decision support systems and diagnostic tools.

Introductory textbook on data analysis for biology students that includes examples and exercise sets from medical and biological literature, intuitive explanations of key concepts, and a practical approach, focusing on data rather than the mathematical foundations of statistics.