Data mining is the research area involving powerful processes and tools that allow an
effective analysis and exploration of usually large amounts of data. In particular, data
mining techniques have found application in numerous different scientific fields with the
aim of discovering previously unknown patterns and correlations, as well as predicting
trends and behaviors.
In the meantime, during the current century of biomedical sciences, biology and
medicine have undergone tremendous advances in their technologies and therefore have
generated huge amounts of biomedical information. This book intends to bring together the
most recent advances and applications of data mining research in the promising areas of
medicine and biology from around the world. Seventeen chapters, twelve related to medical
research and five focused on the biological domain, describe interesting applications,
motivating progress and worthwhile results