MEDICAL INFORMATICS: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine covers the basic foundations of the region while expanding the basic ingredients to incorporate the latest cutting-edge research in the field. Part I presents basic information and knowledge management material and includes topics such as: bioinformatics challenges and standards, security and privacy, ethics and social, and biomedical knowledge mapping. Part II discusses topics relevant to knowledge representations & access and includes topics such as: representations of medical concepts and relationships, genomic information retrieval, 3D medical informatics, public access to anatomic images, and creating and maintaining biomedical ontologies. Section III discusses the application of research emerged in data mining, biomedical textual mining, and knowledge discovery research and includes topics such as: semantic parsing and analysis for patient records, biological relationships, gene line, and metabolic networks, exploratory genomic data analysis, shared learning using data and text mining, and disease informatics and outbreak detection. This book is a comprehensive presentation of the foundations and leading application research in medical informatics / biomedicine.