Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications-2

Abstract

Retrieving and inspecting traces that log medical processes execution can be a significant help in exception management, and is the first step towards a thorough analysis of the service provided by an health care organization. In this work, we report on extensive retrieval experiments, conducted on a database of 2000 real patient traces, collected at different stroke management units in the Lombardia region, Italy. In our approach, retrieval exploits a K-Nearest Neighbor technique, and relies on a distance definition able to explicitly take into account temporal information in traces-since in emergency medicine the role of time is central. Retrieval is also made faster by the application of non-exhaustive search procedures, that are described in the paper. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.