Data Mining in Oral Medicine Using Decision Trees

Data mining has been used very frequently to extract hidden information from large databases. This paper suggests the use of decision trees for continuously extracting the clinical reasoning in the form of medical expert-s actions that is inherent in large number of EMRs (Electronic Medical records). In this way the extracted data could be used to teach students of oral medicine a number of orderly processes for dealing with patients who represent with different problems within the practice context over time.

Authors:

• Fahad Shahbaz Khan
• Rao Muhammad Anwer
• Olof Torgersson
• Göran Falkman

Keywords:

• Data mining
• Oral Medicine
• Decision Trees
• WEKA.

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