The era of big data has brought a big revolution that will transform the way we live, work, and think. In medical field, as the development of social economics and medicine since 21 century, the human disease spectrum has been changing, the disease type has been increasing, and the complexity of the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of disease have been gradually increasing. In order to improve the healthy level, and explore the law of disease occurrence and development, we should constantly research to find discipline in enormous knowledge by fully mining and using the big medical data. It will be helpful to improve the level medical information management. And it can be supportive to the diagnosis, treatment, clinical practice and decision-making. We did the review under the background of big data, and the mean contact of this review is about the origin, meaning, classification, features of big data as well as the research process, application and future development of data mining, especially clinical data mining.

Citation： QINWen-zhe, CHENJin, DONGLi. Progress and Application of Medical Data Mining under the Background of Big Data. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2016, 23(1): 55-60. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.20160013 Copy