INTELLIGENT TECHNIQUES FOR DATA INTEGRATION AND DECISION SUPPORT IN THE MEDICAL DOMAIN

Data commonly produced during medical practice often falls into the category of complex data, which may not comply with the traditional field structure of common types like alphanumeric, dates, etc., with prominent examples including text documents, time-series, and multimedia objects. In addition, medical data may not be mutually compatible and easy to integrate into a centralized repository, since it originates from heterogeneous sources which apply different assumptions, conventions and schemas. Having in mind these challenges, two research teams fro