Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods and Algorithms
Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods and Algorithms
Alternatives to the k-means algorithm that find better clusterings
Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Information and knowledge management
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques
Data Mining: A Knowledge Discovery Approach
Data Mining: A Knowledge Discovery Approach
Data Mining Methods and Models
Data Mining Methods and Models
Comparison of the performance of center-based clustering algorithms
PAKDD'03 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific-Asia conference on Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining
Computerized analysis of respiratory sounds during COPD exacerbations
Computers in Biology and Medicine
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide and represents one of the major causes of chronic morbidity. Cigarette smoking is the most important risk factor for COPD. In these patients, the airflow limitation is caused by a mixture of small airways disease and parenchyma destruction, the relative contribution of which varies from person to person. The twofold nature of the pathology has been studied in the past and according to some authors each patient should be classified as presenting a predominantly bronchial or emphysematous phenotype. In this study we applied various explorative analysis techniques (PCA, MCA, MDS) and recent unsupervised clustering methods (KHM) to study a large dataset, acquired from 415 COPD patients, to assess the presence of hidden structures in data corresponding to the different COPD phenotypes observed in clinical practice. In order to validate our methods, we compared the results obtained from a training set of 415 patients with lung density data acquired in a test set of 93 patients who underwent HRCT (High Resolution Computerized Tomography).