Tree miner - a data mining tool for asthma patient diagnosis system

In the healthcare sector tree finder considers childhood asthma. It has emerged perhaps as the commonest chronic medical problem treated by pediatricians all over the world. So it needs several analysis works, which is very important in the medical field. This system takes the diagnosed information of asthma patients and do various analyses work on that. This analysis provides a good result which is used for some decision making. What was originally thought to be a disorder affecting only adults has emerged as a very significant problem affecting the child´s life style and day to day activities including schooling, sports and recreation? The prevalence of childhood asthma in India varies from 5-18% with the reported prevalence of 8-9% in the city of Chennai. The prevalence of morbidity and mortality from asthma seems to be on the rise. The evidence for a world wide increase in asthma cases is so strong and consistent that the trend cannot be considered artifact. Presently there are 150 million people affected with asthma world over. Because asthma is a complex and heterogeneous disease with many phenotypic expressions through the course of childhood, it is challenging to characterize.