Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW 2007)
Identifying Exacerbating Cases in Chronic Diseases Based on the Cluster Analysis of Trajectory Data on Laboratory Examinations
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
October 28-October 31
ISBN: 0-7695-3033-8
In this paper we present a cluster analysis method for multidimensional time-series medical data and its appli- cation to finding groups of exacerbating cases in chronic hepatitis. Our method represents time series laboratory ex- amination data of a patient as a trajectory. Compaison of trajectories is done using a two-stage approach. Firstly, it compares trajectories based on their structural similar- ity and determines the best correspondence of partial seg- ments. After that, it calculates the sum of value-based dis- similarities for all pairs of the matched segments as the final dissimilarity of the two trajectories, which can be used for clustering. Experimental results on a synthetic digit-stroke data provided low error ratio of 0.016 ?0.014 for classi- fication and 0.118 ?0.057 for cluster rebuild. Results on the chronic hepatitis dataset demonstrated that the method could discover the groups of exacerbating cases based on the similarity of ALB-PLT trajectories.
Citation:
Shoji Hirano, Shusaku Tsumoto, "Identifying Exacerbating Cases in Chronic Diseases Based on the Cluster Analysis of Trajectory Data on Laboratory Examinations," icdmw, pp.151-156, Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW 2007), 2007