In healthcare, data mining is becoming increasingly popular.
Several factors have motivated the use of data mining applications
in healthcare. The existence of medical insurance
fraud and abuse, for example, has led many healthcare insurers
to attempt to reduce their losses by using data mining tools
to help them find and track offenders [3]. Fraud detection using
data mining applications is prevalent in the commercial
world, for example, in the detection of fraudulent credit card
transactions.
from the database increasingly becomes necessary [1].
Data mining in medicine can deal with this problem. It can
also improve the management level of hospital information
and promote the development of telemedicine and community
medicine [2]. The goal of data mining in clinical medicine is to
derive models that can use patient specific information to predict
the outcome of interest and to thereby support clinical
decision-making.