A Systematic Review of Healthcare Big Data

Table 5

BDA techniques.

BDA techniques	Healthcare application areas	Examples	Sources
Machine learning	Early detection of diseases	Predicting epidemics, disease monitoring	[12, 55]
Data mining	Prediction of heart disease at early stages	Health analytics, determination of epidemics	[56–59]
Neural network	Diagnosis of chronic diseases	Predicting of patients’ future disease, patient safety	[60–62]
Pattern recognition	Improvement of public health disease surveillance	Empowering public health, health literacy, improving quality of care	[63, 64]
NLP	Improve the quality of care and accuracy of clinical decisions	Cost reduction, high-risk factor identification	[57, 65]