Machine Learning for Health Informatics State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges

• Main Author: Holzinger, Andreas
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2016; Springer International Publishing AG; Springer International Publishing; Springer
• Edition: 1
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Computer Science; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Data processing Computer science; Health Informatics; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Machine learning; Medical informatics
• ISBN: 9783319504780; 3319504789; 9783319504773; 3319504770
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50478-0

Machine learning (ML) is the fastest growing field in computer science, and Health Informatics (HI) is amongst the greatest application challenges, providing future benefits in improved medical diagnoses, disease analyses, and pharmaceutical development. However, successful ML for HI needs a concerted effort, fostering integrative research between experts ranging from diverse disciplines from data science to visualization. Tackling complex challenges needs both disciplinary excellence and cross-disciplinary networking without any boundaries. Following the HCI-KDD approach, in combining the best of two worlds, it is aimed to support human intelligence with machine intelligence. This state-of-the-art survey is an output of the international HCI-KDD expert network and features 22 carefully selected and peer-reviewed chapters on hot topics in machine learning for health informatics; they discuss open problems and future challenges in order to stimulate further research and international progress in this field.