Localized supervised metric learning on temporal physiological data

Jimeng Sun, Daby Sow, Jianying Hu, Shahram Ebadollahi

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Abstract

Effective patient similarity assessment is important for clinical decision support. It enables the capture of past experience as manifested in the collective longitudinal medical records of patients to help clinicians assess the likely outcomes resulting from their decisions and actions. However, it is challenging to devise a patient similarity metric that is clinically relevant and semantically sound. Patient similarity is highly context sensitive: it depends on factors such as the disease, the particular stage of the disease, and co-morbidities. One way to discern the semantics in a particular context is to take advantage of physicians' expert knowledge as reflected in labels assigned to some patients. In this paper we present a method that leverages localized supervised metric learning to effectively incorporate such expert knowledge to arrive at semantically sound patient similarity measures. Experiments using data obtained from the MIMIC II database demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2010
Pages4149-4152
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 18 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2010 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: Aug 23 2010Aug 26 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
ISSN (Print)1051-4651

Other

Other2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2010
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period8/23/108/26/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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