Knowledge and Data Management White Papers
Temporal Data Mining in Hospital Information Systems: Analysis of Clinical Courses of Chronic Hepatitis
Overview This paper presents a new approach to finding interesting knowledge from temporal data on chronic diseases based on the combination of advanced sequence comparison techniques and cluster analysis procedure. First the paper briefly introduces the cluster analysis system for temporal data that one has developed. Second, the paper applies it to the analysis of platelet (PLT) count data on chronic viral hepatitis patients. Third, the paper shows the results of PLT value-based temporal analysis, conducted based on the results of cluster analysis, aiming at finding years for reaching F4 (liver fibrosis stage four), years elapsed between stages, and their relationships with virus types and fibrotic stages.
| Publisher | Shimane University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | March 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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