Extracting Associations from Kidney Transplantations Dataset

Abstract

Abstract

Data Mining is one of the most motivating area of research which become increasingly popular in healthcare. Studies in heath scope used data mining techniques for diagnosing diseases and much less in prognosis stage of diseases. The records of the members of The Sudanese Kidney Transplanted Associations has been collected and their follow-up data from Cardiac Surgery & Renal Transplantations Center at Ahmed Qassim hospital in Khartoum North. We used Clementine, ARMADA association mining tool and MatLab to develop a program based on Apriori algorithm for extracting association rules. There are some differences in the results, but they all shows the essentially factors that impacts on renal functions.