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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Artificial Neural Systems Volume 2012, Article ID 835903, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2012/835903 Research Article Hemodialysis Key Features Mining and Patients Clustering Technologies Tzu-Chuen Lu and Chun-Ya Tseng Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Wufeng District, Taichung 41349, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Tzu-Chuen Lu, tclu@.tw Received 3 March 2012; Revised 4 June 2012; Accepted 8 June 2012 Academic Editor: Anke Meyer-Baese Copyright © 2012 T.-C. Lu and C.-Y. Tseng. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The kidneys are very vital organs. Failing kidneys lose their ability to filter out waste products, resulting in kidney disease. To extend or save the lives of patients with impaired kidney function, kidney replacement is typically utilized, such as hemodialysis. This work uses an entropy function to identify key features related to hemodialysis. By identifying these key features, one can determine whether a patient requires hemodialysis. This work uses these key features as dimensions in cluster analysis. The key features can effectively determine whether a patient requires hemodialysis. The proposed data mining scheme finds association rules of each cluster. Hidden rules for causing any kidney disease can therefore be identified. The contributions and key points of this paper are as follows. (1) This paper finds some key features that can be used to predict the patient who may has high probability to perform hemodialysis. (2) The proposed scheme applies k-means clustering algorithm with the key features to