Generalizing Healthcare Events Using Word Vectors
Name
Kermo Saarse
Abstract
In the electronic health record, each visit to doctor could generate multiple data points. The same health issue could be linked to multiple diagnoses, drug prescriptions and measurements that are all separate events. Such a high resolution of the data makes its analysis difficult. In this thesis, word2vec model and K-means clustering are used to aggregate related health events into generalised events in an OMOP CDM dataset. It is shown that word2vec can successfully identify related events. As the number of clusters grows, each cluster becomes more homogenous, but there will also be a higher number of similar clusters. As a result of generalization, the number of events in a patient's dataset decreased significantly.
Graduation Thesis language
Estonian
Graduation Thesis type
Master - Data Science
Supervisor(s)
Sulev Reisberg
Defence year
2024