Multiscale Comparison of Temporal Patternsin Time-Series Medical Databases

  • Authors:
  • Shoji Hirano;Shusaku Tsumoto

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PKDD '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper presents a method for analyzing time-series data on laboratory examinations based on phase-constraint multiscale matching and rough clustering. Multiscale matching compares two subsequences throughout various scales of view. It has an advantage of preserving connectivity of subsequences even if the subsequences are represented at different scales. Rough clustering groups up objects according not to the topographic measures such as the center or deviance of objects in a cluster but to the relative similarity and indiscernibility of objects. We use multiscale matching to obtain similarity of sequences and rough clustering to cluster the sequences according to the obtained similarity. We slightly modified dissimilarity measure in multiscale matching so that it suppresses excessive shift of phase that may cause incorrect matching of the sequences. Experimental results on the hepatitis dataset show that the proposed method successfully clustered similar sequences into an independent cluster, and that correspondence of subsequences are also successfully captured.