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Association rule learning and frequent sequence mining of cancer diagnoses in New York State

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Analyzing large scale diagnosis histories of patients could help to discover comorbidity or disease progression patterns. Recently, open data initiatives make it possible to access statewide patient data at individual level, such as New York State SPARCS data. The goal of this study is to explore frequent disease co-occurrence and sequence patterns of cancer patients in New York State using SPARCS data. Our collection includes 18,208,830 discharge records from 1,565,237 patients with cancer-related diagnoses during 2011–2015. We use Apriori algorithm to discover top disease co-occurrences for common cancer categories based on support. We generate top frequent sequences of diagnoses with at least one cancer related diagnosis from patients’ diagnosis histories using the cSPADE algorithm. Our data driven approach provides essential knowledge to support the investigation of disease co-occurrence and progression patterns for improving the management of multiple diseases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationData Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare - 3rd International Workshop, DMAH 2017 Held at VLDB 2017, Proceedings
EditorsEdmon Begoli, Gang Luo, Fusheng Wang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages121-135
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783319671857
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event3rd International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2017 held in conjunction with the 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2017 - Munich, Germany
Duration: Sep 1 2017Sep 1 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10494 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2017 held in conjunction with the 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2017
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period09/1/1709/1/17

Keywords

  • Association rule learning
  • Sequence mining
  • SPARCS

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