Hello, I Was Wondering About Medical Data, What Is The

Posted on Wed, 24 Apr 2019

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Question : Hello, I was wondering about medical data, what is the best way of analysing results and how we can use medical data better in medicine by combining new advances in technology for example machine learning?

Answered by Dr. Vaishalee Punj (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
We apply statistics to compare data

Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome to Ask A Doctor service.

I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

In my experience of clinical research, we apply statistics to compare and analyse the data.
We can do the calculations manually sometimes e.g to calculate percentages, but for bigger data and comparisons, we usually take help of statistics softwares or statiticians.

Machine learning has not been used by me. These softwares have incorporated machine learning in some of their packages. I am not a technical specialist but can search on it if you have a specific question.

Dr Vaishalee

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar