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Identifying Symptom Clusters Through Association Rule Mining
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Identifying Symptom Clusters Through Association Rule Mining

Mikayla Biggs, Carla Floricel, Lisanne Van Dijk, Abdallah S. R Mohamed, C. David Fuller, G. Elisabeta Marai, Xinhua Zhang and Guadalupe Canahuate
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, pp.491-496
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12721, Springer International Publishing
06/08/2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77211-6_58
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/8444285View
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Abstract

Cancer patients experience many symptoms throughout their cancer treatment and sometimes suffer from lasting effects post-treatment. Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) surveys provide a means for monitoring the patient’s symptoms during and after treatment. Symptom cluster (SC) research seeks to understand these symptoms and their relationships to define new treatment and disease management methods to improve patient’s quality of life. This paper introduces association rule mining (ARM) as a novel alternative for identifying symptom clusters. We compare the results to prior research and find that while some of the SCs are similar, ARM uncovers more nuanced relationships between symptoms such as anchor symptoms that serve as connections between interference and cancer-specific symptoms.
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