Mining hierarchical pathology data using inductive logic programming

Tim Op De Beéck*, Arjen Hommersom, Jan van Haaren, Maarten van der Heijden, Jesse Davis, Peter Lucas, Lucy Overbeek, Iris Nagtegaal

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Abstract

Considerable amounts of data are continuously generated by pathologists in the form of pathology reports. To date, there has been relatively little work exploring how to apply machine learning and data mining techniques to these data in order to extract novel clinical relationships. From a learning perspective, these pathology data possess a number of challenging properties, in particular, the temporal and hierarchical structure that is present within the data. In this paper, we propose a methodology based on inductive logic programming to extract novel associations from pathology excerpts. We discuss the challenges posed by analyzing these data and discuss how we address them. As a case study, we apply our methodology to Dutch pathology data for discovering possible causes of two rare diseases: cholangitis and breast angiosarcomas.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence in Medicine - 15th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2015, Proceedings
EditorsRiccardo Bellazzi, Lucia Sacchi, John H. Holmes, Niels Peek
PublisherSpringer
Pages76-85
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319195506
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event15th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2015 - Pavia, Italy
Duration: 17 Jun 201520 Jun 2015
Conference number: 15

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9105
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2015
Abbreviated titleAIME 2015
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityPavia
Period17/06/1520/06/15

Keywords

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