scholarly journals Refining Adverse Drug Reactions Using Association Rule Mining for Electronic Healthcare Data

Author(s):  
Jenna M. Reps ◽  
Uwe Aickelin ◽  
Jiangang Ma ◽  
Yanchun Zhang
Author(s):  
M. Nandhini ◽  
S. N. Sivanandam ◽  
S. Renugadevi

Data mining is likely to explore hidden patterns from the huge quantity of data and provides a way of analyzing and categorizing the data. Associative classification (AC) is an integration of two data mining tasks, association rule mining, and classification which is used to classify the unknown data. Though association rule mining techniques are successfully utilized to construct classifiers, it lacks in generating a small set of significant class association rules (CARs) to build an accurate associative classifier. In this work, an attempt is made to generate significant CARs using Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm, an optimization technique to construct an efficient associative classifier. Associative classifier, thus built using ABC discovered CARs achieve high prognostic accurateness and interestingness value. Promising results were provided by the ABC based AC when experiments were conducted using health care datasets from the UCI machine learning repository.


Association Rule Mining (ARM) is a data mining approach for discovering rules that reveal latent associations among persisted entity sets. ARM has many significant applications in the real world such as finding interesting incidents, analyzing stock market data and discovering hidden relationships in healthcare data to mention few. Many algorithms that are efficient to mine association rules are found in the existing literature, apriori-based and Pattern-Growth. Comprehensive understanding of them helps data mining community and its stakeholders to make expert decisions. Dynamic update of association rules that have been discovered already is very challenging due to the fact that the changes are arbitrary and heterogeneous in the kind of operations. When new instances are added to existing dataset that has been subjected to ARM, only those instances are to be used in order to go for incremental mining of rules instead of considering the whole dataset again. Recently some algorithms were developed by researchers especially to achieve incremental ARM. They are broadly grouped into Apriori-based and Pattern-Growth. This paper provides review of Apriori-based and Pattern-Growth techniques that support incremental ARM.


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