Known Unknowns: Novelty Detection in Condition Monitoring

  • Authors:
  • John A. Quinn;Christopher K. Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Informatics, and Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom;School of Informatics,

  • Venue:
  • IbPRIA '07 Proceedings of the 3rd Iberian conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Part I
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In time-series analysis it is often assumed that observed data can be modelled as being derived from a number of regimes of dynamics, as e.g. in a Switching Kalman Filter (SKF) [8,2]. However, it may not be possible to model all of the regimes, and in this case it can be useful to represent explicitly a `novel' regime. We apply this idea to the Factorial Switching Kalman Filter (FSKF) by introducing an extra factor (the `X-factor') to account for the unmodelled variation. We apply our method to physiological monitoring data from premature infants receiving intensive care, and demonstrate that the model is effective in detecting abnormal sequences of observations that are not modelled by the known regimes.