title: Intelligent data analysis for knowledge discovery, patient monitoring and quality assessment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To introduce the focus theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on Intelligent Data Analysis for Knowledge Discovery, Patient Monitoring and Quality Assessment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Based on two workshops on Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine (IDAMAP) held in Washington, DC, USA (2010) and Bled, Slovenia (2011), six authors were invited to write full papers for the focus theme. Each paper was throughly reviewed by anonymous referees and revised one or more times by the authors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The selected papers cover four ongoing and emerging topics in Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA), being i) systems biology and metabolic pathway modelling; ii) gene expression data modelling; iii) signal processing from in-home monitoring systems; and iv) quality of care assessment. Each of these topics is discussed in detail to introduce the papers to the reader.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The development and application of IDA methods in biomedicine is an active area of research which continues to blend with other subfields of medical informatics. As data become increasingly ubiquitous in the biomedical domain, the demand for fast, smart and flexible data analysis methods is undiminished.
authors.forename: Niels
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Peek
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Swift
mesh_terms: D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D004493:Education; D015870:Gene Expression; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000379:methods