Temporal Characterization and Visualization of Revolving Therapy-Events in Lung Cancer Patients

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Aug 22:316:1642-1646. doi: 10.3233/SHTI240738.

Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive workflow for integrating revolving events into the transitive sequential pattern mining (tSPM+) algorithm and Machine Learning for Health Outcomes (MLHO) framework, emphasizing best practices and pitfalls in its application. We emphasize feature engineering and visualization techniques, demonstrating their efficacy in capturing temporal relationships. Applied to an EGFR lung cancer cohort, our approach showcases reliable temporal insights even in a small dataset. This work highlights the importance of temporal nuances in healthcare data analysis, paving the way for improved disease understanding and patient care.

Keywords: ML workflow; sequential pattern mining; temporal data analyses.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Data Mining* / methods
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms* / therapy
  • Machine Learning*
  • Workflow