Title
Data Mining based Methodologies for Cardiac Risk Patterns Identification.
Abstract
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death in the world. The pulse wave analysis provides a new insight in the analysis of these pathologies, while data mining techniques can contribute for an efficient diagnostic method. Amongst the various available techniques, artificial neural networks (ANNs) are well established in biomedical applications and have numerous successful classification applications. Also, clustering procedures have proven to be very useful in assessing different risk groups in terms of cardiovascular function in healthy populations. In this paper, a robust data mining approach was performed for cardiac risk patterns identification. Eight classifiers were tested: C4.5, Random Forest, RIPPER, Naive Bayes, Bayesian Network, Multy-layer perceptron (MLP) (1 and 2-hidden layers) and radial basis function (RBF). As for clustering procedures, k-means clustering (using Euclidean distance) and expectation-maximization (EM) were the chosen algorithms. Two datasets were used as case studies to perform classification and clustering analysis. The accuracy values are good with intervals between 88.05% and 97.15%. The clustering techniques were essential in the analysis of a dataset where little information was available, allowing the identification of different clusters that represent different risk group in terms cardiovascular function. The three cluster analysis has allowed the characterization of distinctive features for each of the clusters. Reflected wave time (T_RP) and systolic wave time (T_SP) were the selected features for clusters visualization. Data mining methodologies have proven their usefulness in screening studies due to its descriptive and predictive power.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2013
BIOINFORMATICS 2013: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS MODELS, METHODS AND ALGORITHMS
Data Mining,Artificial Neural Network,Clustering,Arterial Distension Waveform,Cardiovascular Diseases
Field
DocType
Citations 
Data science,Data mining,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Bioinformatics,Machine learning
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
V. G. Almeida110.70
J. Borba221.05
Tânia Pereira3248.61
Helena Catarina Pereira496.17
João Cardoso5107.92
A. Correia6198.62