Exploratory Data Mining for Subgroup Cohort Discoveries and Prioritization.

ABSTRACT: Finding small homogeneous subgroup cohorts in large heterogeneous populations is a critical process for hypothesis development in biomedical research. Concurrent computational approaches are still lacking in robust answers to the question "what hypotheses are likely to be novel and to produce clinically relevant results with well thought-out study designs?" We have developed a novel subgroup discovery method which employs a deep exploratory mining process to slice and dice thousands of potential subpopulations and prioritize potential cohorts based on their explainable contrast patterns and which may provide interventionable insights. We conducted computational experiments on both synthesized data and a clinical autism data set to assess performance quantitatively for coverage of pre-defin

SUBMITTER: Liu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9341221 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature