Mining Temporal Patterns from Health Care Data

  • Authors:
  • Weiqiang Lin;Mehmet A. Orgun;Graham J. Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DaWaK 2000 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper describes temporal data mining techniques for extracting information from temporal health records consisting of a time series of elderly diabetic patients' tests. We propose a data mining procedure to analyse these time sequences in three steps to identify patterns from any longitudinal data set. The first step is a structure-based search using wavelets to find pattern structures. The second step employs a value-based search over the discovered patterns using the statistical distribution of data values. The third step combines the results from the first two steps to form a hybrid model. The hybrid model has the expressive power of both wavelet analysis and the statistical distribution of the values. Global patterns are therefore identified.