针对糖尿病患者长期数据,提出新聚类算法4TaStiC,更好识别健康趋势差异。
4TaStiC: Time and trend traveling time series clustering for classifying long-term type 2 diabetes patients
- 融合欧氏距离与皮尔逊相关性,同时捕捉数值水平与变化趋势差异
- 在1989名患者数据上成功划分出具有临床意义的聚类组
- 适用于医疗以外的长期时间序列分析,如金融、环境监测
糖尿病是全球最常见疾病之一,以持续高血糖为特征,可损害多个器官系统。患者需定期检查,产生包括糖化血红蛋白在内的长期实验室记录,反映其健康行为并指导医生决策。基于完整时间序列对患者进行聚类,有助于医生高效制定治疗方案而无需逐条审阅所有数据。然而,此类数据聚类面临挑战:患者就诊时间不一致,难以捕捉和匹配趋势、峰值与模式;同时需兼顾指标数值差异与变化趋势差异。为此,本文提出一种新型聚类算法——4TaStiC(Time and Trend Traveling Time Series Clustering),结合基础相似度度量与欧氏距离、皮尔逊相关性。我们在人工数据集上评估该算法,与七种现有方法对比,结果表明4TaStiC在目标数据集上表现更优。最终,将4TaStiC应用于泰国诗里拉吉医院的1,989名2型糖尿病患者队列,成功划分出具有明确特征的患者群组,为临床决策提供支持。该算法亦可推广至医疗以外领域。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases worldwide, characterized by persistently high blood sugar levels, capable of damaging various internal organs and systems. Diabetes patients require routine check-ups, resulting in a time series of laboratory records, such as hemoglobin A1c, which reflects each patient's health behavior over time and informs their doctor's recommendations. Clustering patients into groups based on their entire time series data assists doctors in making recommendations and choosing treatments without the need to review all records. However, time series clustering of this type of dataset introduces some challenges; patients visit their doctors at different time points, making it difficult to capture and match trends, peaks, and patterns. Additionally, two aspects must be considered: differences in the levels of laboratory results and differences in trends and patterns. To address these challenges, we introduce a new clustering algorithm called Time and Trend Traveling Time Series Clustering (4TaStiC), using a base dissimilarity measure combined with Euclidean and Pearson correlation metrics. We evaluated this algorithm on artificial datasets, comparing its performance with that of seven existing methods. The results show that 4TaStiC outperformed the other methods on the targeted datasets. Finally, we applied 4TaStiC to cluster a cohort of 1,989 type 2 diabetes patients at Siriraj Hospital. Each group of patients exhibits clear characteristics that will benefit doctors in making efficient clinical decisions. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm can be applied to contexts outside the medical field.
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