Intelligent physician segmentation and management based on KDD approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1963-1973

  Lin, Chinho ^a   Lin, Chun Mei ^a,b   Li, Sheng Tun ^a   Kuo, Shu Ching ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Bureau of National Health Insurance Taiwan   (Taiwan)

^c DIWAN COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Clustering; Health insurance; Knowledge discovery in database (KDD); Self organizing maps (SOM)

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS (GP); KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASE (KDD);

HEALTH INSURANCE;

EID: 37349096433     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.02.038     Document Type: Article

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