S. Sharath, M. N. Rao,H. G. Chetan
Clinical data mining is a practice based research strategy by which practitioners and researchers retrieve, analyze and interpret available qualitative and quantitative information from available medical records. It is an active interdisciplinary area of research that is considered the consequent of applying artificial intelligence and data mining concepts to the field of medicine and health care. This paper presents survey on the foundation principles of mining clinical datasets by utilizing data mining techniques to mine health care data and patient records. It also focuses on the preceding survey made in clinical data mining, techniques applied and the conclusion drawn. The most recent research findings that can further unveil the potential of data mining in the realm of healthcare and medicine are clearly presented in this survey.