Abstract
Process model comparison and similar processes retrieval are key issues to be addressed in many real world situations, and particularly relevant ones in medical applications, where similarity quantification can be exploited to accomplish goals such as conformance checking, local process adaptation analysis, and hospital ranking.
In recent years, we have implemented a framework which allows to: (i) extract the actual process model from the available process execution traces, through process mining techniques; and (ii) compare (mined) process models, by relying on a novel distance measure. Our distance measure is knowledge-intensive, in the sense that it explicitly makes use of domain knowledge, and can be properly adapted on the basis of the available knowledge representation formalism. We also exploit all the available mined information (e.g., temporal information about delays between activities). Interestingly, our metric explicitly takes into account complex control flow information too, which is often neglected in the literature.
The framework has been successfully tested in stroke management.
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Deletion and insertion costs, on the other hand, are simply based on the count of mapped vs. unmapped items.
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We would like to thank Dr. I. Canavero for her independent work in the experimental phase.
This research is partially supported by the GINSENG Project, Compagnia di San Paolo.
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Montani, S., Leonardi, G., Quaglini, S., Cavallini, A., Micieli, G. (2014). Knowledge-Intensive Medical Process Similarity. In: Miksch, S., Riaño, D., ten Teije, A. (eds) Knowledge Representation for Health Care. KR4HC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8903. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13281-5_1
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