HPC for Predictive Models in Healthcare

Luiz Fernando Capretz, University of Western Ontario

Also available in online conference proceedings at at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15996-2

Abstract

Increasingly we are faced with complex health data, thus researchers are limited in their capacity to mine data in a way that accounts for the complex inter-relationships between health variables of interest. This research tackles the challenge of producing accurate health prediction models in order to overcome the limitations of simple multivariate regression techniques and the assumption of linear association, also known as algorithmic models, by combining it with a soft computing approach. Predictive models develop methods to enable healthcare researchers and professionals to predict the likelihood of an individual's proclivity to a disease and the likely effectiveness of possible treatments. Personalized approaches focus on the individual - relying on the individual's existing health data across the healthcare system with treatment targeted at the individual.