It is no mystery that science and engineering encourage left-brain activity; logical, rational, analytical, pattern-seeking, solution-solving, sorting, organizing.
When reading imaging studies of these patients, an analytical pattern-based approach will help to prevent uncommon or subtle disease to be overlooked and to narrow the differential diagnosis, if applied in conjunction with medical history and clinical findings.
The interview data will be analysed using conventional qualitative methods, and will identify analytical patterns from across individual respondent and wider service.
Researchers have shown that physicians use both analytical and non-analytical "pattern recognition" approaches, alternating between both in varying degrees [ 1].
Following Norman's terminology, the skills involved are largely thought to be those of non-analytical pattern recognition (NAPR), and this core skill can be viewed as being able to attach semantics to images or percepts [ 2- 10].
You have at your disposal an incredible computing power that can bring to analytical attention patterns of sameness and difference undetectable by the eye of the human reader.
Using multivariate analytical tools, patterns in the data could be modeled and these models can be used routinely to predict the newly acquired data of a similar type.
For all cases, analytical streamline patterns and time-of-flight contours for the flood front (obtained with PASS) are compared to those generated via an independent method based on numerical discretization by a commercial reservoir simulator.
In line with the advice in Yin's book on case study research [ 18] our data analysis consisted of examination, categorization and tabulation of the evidence as well as use of the dominant analytical technique, pattern-matching.
From content analysis of 26 big data implementation cases in healthcare, we were able to identify five big data analytics capabilities: analytical capability for patterns of care, unstructured data analytical capability, decision support capability, predictive capability, and traceability.
