Event Log Generation in MIMIC-IV Research Paper

Abstract

Public event logs are valuable for process mining research to evaluate process mining artifacts and identify new and promising research directions. Initiatives like the BPI Challenges have provided a series of real-world event logs, including healthcare processes, and have significantly stimulated process mining research. However, the healthcare related logs provide only excerpts of patient visits in hospitals. The Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC)-IV database is a public available relational database that includes data on patient treatment in a tertiary academic medical center in Boston, USA. It provides complex care processes in a hospital from end-to-end. To facilitate the use of MIMIC-IV in process mining and to increase the reproducibility of research with MIMIC, this paper provides a framework consisting of a method, an event hierarchy, and a log extraction tool for extracting useful event logs from the MIMIC-IV database. We demonstrate the framework on a heart failure treatment process, show how logs on different abstraction levels can be generated, and provide configuration files to generate event logs of previous process mining works with MIMIC.