Big Data in Dental Research and Oral Healthcare

• Other Authors: Joda, Tim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Medicine; digital transformation; rapid prototyping; augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR); artificial intelligence (AI); machine learning (ML); personalized dental medicine; tele-health; patient-centered outcomes; integrated care, medical-dental integration, simulation model, dental research; oral medicine; oral healthcare; dentistry; gerodontology; elderly patient; big data; Big Data; digital dentistry; oral health; ethical issues; dental education; augmented reality (AR); virtual reality (VR); artificial intelligence; AI; machine learning; ML; cone beam computed tomography (CBCT); intraoral scanning; facial scanning; healthcare cost; medical healthcare cost; dental healthcare cost; zero-inflated model; neural network
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Progress in information technology has fostered a global explosion of data generation. Accumulated big data are now estimated to be 4.4 zettabytes in the digital universe; and trends predict an exponential increase in the future. Health data are gathered from professional routine care and other expa...