Title
TCPM: Topic-Based Clinical Pathway Mining
Abstract
Clinical pathway is important for improving medical quality, reducing cost and regulating resource. However, a static, non-adaptive clinical pathway designed by experts with limited data can be hardly implemented in practice. Thus, mining the execution clinical pathway from various historical data is meaningful. Existing works focus on applying either process mining or clustering methods on medical data. These methods generally produce low-granularity process models or unordered trace groups with similar treatment behaviors. In this paper, we propose a topic-based clinical pathway mining approach, which is concise, interpretable and of sequential information. We start from billing data, and use Latent Dirichlet Allocation to cluster billing items without specifying the topic number. The treatment of each day is represented as a set of topics, which convey the treatment goals. To emphasize critical and essential activities, we prune the low-frequency topics and remove sub-traces. Finally, by applying fuzzy mining method on these topic sequences, we can discover the execution clinical pathway. The experiments on a real-world data set show the effectiveness and practicability of our approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CHASE.2016.17
2016 IEEE First International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
clinical pathway mining,LDA,process mining
Clinical pathway,Data mining,Data modeling,Data stream mining,Latent Dirichlet allocation,Concept mining,Information retrieval,Computer science,Knowledge management,Cluster analysis,Hidden Markov model,Process mining
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-0944-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
13
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
xiao xu1389.71
Tao Jin2695.71
Zhijie Wei300.34
Cheng Lv410.70
Jianmin Wang52446156.05