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Biomedical Data Mining for Information Retrieval comprehensively covers the topic of mining biomedical text, images and visual features towards information retrieval, which is an emerging research field at the intersection of information science and computer science. Biomedical and health informatics is another remerging field of research at the intersection of information science, computer science and healthcare. This new era of healthcare informatics and analytics brings with it tremendous opportunities and challenges based on the abundance of biomedical data easily available for further analysis. The aim of healthcare informatics is to ensure high-quality, efficient healthcare and better treatment and quality of life by efficiently analyzing biomedical and healthcare data, including patients’ data, electronic health records (EHRs) and lifestyle. Earlier, it was commonly required to have a domain expert develop a model for biomedical or healthcare data; however, recent advancements in representation learning algorithms allow automatic learning of the pattern and representation of given data for the development of such a model. Biomedical image mining is a novel research area brought about by the large number of biomedical images increasingly being generated and stored digitally. These images are mainly generated by computed tomography (CT), X-ray, nuclear medicine imaging (PET, SPECT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound. Patients’ biomedical images can be digitized using data mining techniques and may help in answering several critical questions related to their healthcare. Image mining in medicine can help to uncover new relationships between data and reveal new useful information that can aid doctors in treating their patients.

Information retrieval (IR) methods have multiple levels of representation in which the system learns raw to higher abstract level representation at each level. An essential issue in medical IR is the variety of users of different services. In general, they will have changeable categories of information needs, varying levels of medical knowledge and varying language skills. The various categories of users of medical IR systems have multiple levels of medical knowledge, with the medical knowledge of many individuals falling within a category that varies greatly. This influences the way in which individuals present search queries to systems and also the level of complexity of information that should be returned to them or the type of support when considering which retrieved material should be provided. These have shown significant success in dealing with massive data for a large number of applications due to their capability of extracting complex hidden features and learning efficient representation in an unsupervised setting.

This book covers the latest advances and developments in health informatics, data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence, fields which to a great extent will play a vital role in improving human life. It also covers the IR-based models for biomedical and health informatics which have recently emerged in the still-developing field of research in biomedicine and healthcare. All researchers and practitioners working in the fields of biomedicine, health informatics, and information retrieval will find the book highly beneficial. Since it is a good collection of state-of-the-art approaches for data-mining-based biomedical and health-related applications, it will also be very beneficial for new researchers and practitioners working in the field in order to quickly know what the best performing methods are. With this book they will be able to compare different approaches in order to carry forward their research in the most important areas of research, which directly impacts the betterment of human life and health. No other book on the market provides such a good collection of state-of-the-art methods for mining biomedical text, images and visual features towards information retrieval.