ABSTRACT
Modern medicine, health informatics, and bioinformatics systems create and leverage massive volumes of rich, complex, and highly coupled data sets. Hospitals, treatment centers, and doctors’ offices capture a diverse collection of personal health data, health history, symptoms and diagnosis data, disease and treatment data, blood work and test results, and imaging products. Medical research institutions produce even further experimental data, metadata, and results at various resolutions, from cell-level tissue samples, to disease progression and propagation behaviors, to the sequencing of the human genome. These data are produced by a variety of devices, sensors, and information systems all over the world every day.
