Project Team Members:
Northwestern University
Health Informatics Data Mining
This page contains a general overview of projects related to health informatics research carried at CUCIS. Several lines of projects developed to solve specific health informatics data mining problems ranging from collaboration with medical departments, publicly availible cancer datasets, and social media posts such as tweets.
Background
Publications
- Kathy Lee, Ankit Agrawal, and Alok Choudhary. Mining Social Media Streams to Improve Public Health Allergy Surveillance. In International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining, August 2015. (pdf unavailable)
- Reda Al-Bahrani, Ankit Agrawal, and Alok Choudhary. Colon Cancer Survival Prediction Using Ensemble Data Mining on SEER Data. In the BigData in Bioinformatics and Health Informatics Workshop in Conjunction with the 2013 IEEE International Conference on BigData, October 2013. (pdf)
- Lu Liu, Jie Tang, Yu Cheng, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, and Alok Choudhary. Mining Diabetes Complication and Treatment Patterns for Clinical Decision Support. In the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), October 2013. (pdf)
- Kathy Lee, Ankit Agrawal, and Alok Choudhary. Real-time Disease Surveillance Using Twitter Data: Demonstration On Flu And Cancer (Demo). In the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on knowledge Discovery And Data Mining, pp. 1474–1477, August 2013. (pdf)
- Kathy Lee, Ankit Agrawal, and Alok Choudhary. Real-Time Digital Flu Surveillance using Twitter Data. In the SDM Workshop on Data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare (DMMH), pp. 19–27, May 2013. (pdf)
- Jason Scott Mathias, Ankit Agrawal, Joe Feinglass, Andrew J Cooper, David William Baker, and Alok Choudhary. Development of a 5 year life expectancy index in older adults using predictive mining of electronic health record data. Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, BMJ Group, April 2013. (pdf)
- Ankit Agrawal and Alok Choudhary. Identifying HotSpots in Lung Cancer Data Using Association Rule Mining. In the Workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare: Prediction, Extremes, and Impacts, held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, December 2011. (pdf)
- Ankit Agrawal, Sanchit Misra, Ramanthan Narayanan, Lalith Polepeddi, and Alok Choudhary. A Lung Cancer Outcome Calculator Using Ensemble Data Mining on SEER Data. In the 10th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics, in conjunction with the 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 2011. (pdf)
Online Applications
- Lung Cancer Outcome Calculator
- Five Year Life Expectancy Calculator
- An Analysis of Variation in Hospital Billing Using Medicare Data
- Real-Time Digital Flu Surveillance
