Discovery of medical pathways considering complications. (March 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cao, Yongzhong; Xue, Jie; Liu, Zhipeng; Li, Bin
• Is Part Of: Computers & electrical engineering. Volume 106(2023)
• Publication Date: 2023-03
• Subjects: Trace clustering -- Process discovery -- Neural network -- Complication -- Medical pathway; Computer engineering -- Periodicals; Electrical engineering -- Periodicals; Electrical engineering -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Ordinateurs -- Conception et construction -- Périodiques; Électrotechnique -- Périodiques; Électrotechnique -- Informatique -- Périodiques; Computer engineering; Electrical engineering; Electrical engineering -- Data processing; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 621.302854
• DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2023.108606
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0045-7906

Abstract

Abstract: Many medical solutions exist in the vast medical logs, and how to use them to make precise recommendations for medical pathways has become a current research hotspot. This paper proposed an algorithmic framework that combines trace clustering, process discovery, and neural network techniques to discover models of medical pathways considering complications from medical logs. First, trace clustering divided the treatment pathways set in medical logs into multiple subsets with similar behaviours. Then multiple streamlined process models were mined by process discovery techniques. The reasonable medical pathways were extracted from each process model. A cluster of trained neural network models was used to determine the case characteristic labels and obtain the attention of events in the medical pathways. The output was finally integrated to generate a model of medical pathways considering complications. The results of the experiments using the Sepsis Cases dataset showed that the average simplicity of the generated process models was 0.695, the average accuracy of the neural network models was 93.3%, and the medical pathways model score was about 0.879.