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Timeline and episode-structured clinical data: pre-processing for Data Mining and analytics

  • Jing Lu
    ,
  • Alan Hales
    ,
  • David Rew
    ,
  • Malcolm Keech
  • Southampton Solent University
    ,
  • University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well

Abstract

Data Mining has been used in the healthcare domain for diagnosis and treatment analysis, resource management and fraud detection. It brings a set of tools and techniques that can be applied to large-scale patient data to discover underlying patterns and provide healthcare professionals an additional source of knowledge for making decisions. The Southampton Breast Cancer Data System (SBCDS) containing some 16,000 timeline-structured records is a visually rich and highly intuitive system for the manual and automated transfer of demographic, pathology and treatment data into an episode-based structure. While expansion of the data mining capability in SBCDS is one of the objectives of our research, real-world patient data is generally incomplete, inconsistent and containing errors. This case study will focus on the data pre-processing stage in order to clean the raw data and prepare the final dataset for use in data mining and analytics. Some initial results are given for sequential patterns mining and classification which highlight the advantages of the approach.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 64-67

Publication milestones

  • Published - 23/06/2016

Publication status

Published - 23/06/2016

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781509021086

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624499
  • Scopus: 84982861464

Host publication title

2016 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW)

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