Abstract: The increasing quantity of data in biomedical informatics is leading towards better patient profiling and personalized medicine. Lab tests, medical images, and clinical data represent extraordinary sources for patient characterization. While retrospective studies focus on finding correlations in this sheer volume of data, potential new biomarkers are difficult to identify. A common approach is to observe patient mortality with respect to different clinical variables in what is called survival analysis. Kaplan-Meier plots, also known as survival...
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Data science
Data mining