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Maps of human disease: A web-based framework for the visualization of human disease comorbidity and clinical profile overlay

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

We present a practical framework for visual exploration of co-morbidities between diseases. By utilizing high-quality multilevel layout and clustering algorithms, we have implemented an innovative two layer multiplex network of human diseases. Specifically, we extract the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD9) codes from an Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) database to build our map of human diseases. In the lower layer, the abbreviated disease terms of ICD9 codes in the irregular regions look like cities in geographical maps. The connections represent the disease pairs co-morbidities, calculated by using co-occurrence. In the upper layer, we visualize multi-object profile of clinical information. For practical application, we propose an interactive system for users to define parameters of representations of the map (see a map representation example in Fig. 1). The demonstrated visualization method offer an opportunity to visually uncover the significant information in clinical data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBiomedical Data Management and Graph Online Querying - VLDB 2015 Workshops, Big-O(Q) and DMAH, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsArijit Khan, Gang Luo, Chunhua Weng, Fusheng Wang, Prasenjit Mitra, Cong Yu
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages47-60
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783319415758
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event1st International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2015 and Workshop on Big-Graphs Online Querying, Big-O(Q) 2015 held in conjunction with 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2015 - Waikoloa, United States
Duration: Aug 31 2015Sep 4 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9579
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2015 and Workshop on Big-Graphs Online Querying, Big-O(Q) 2015 held in conjunction with 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWaikoloa
Period08/31/1509/4/15

Keywords

  • Clinical information visualization
  • EMRs
  • Graph layout algorithm
  • Human disease comorbidity

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