HASAR: mining sequential association rules for atherosclerosis risk factor analysis

Abstract

We present the HASARD method that is an hybrid approach for extracting adaptative temporal association rules. This method extracts assocation rules between events ccuring in subsequent time-intervals using closed itemsets extraction and evolutionary techniques. An important feature is its capacity to consider different time-intervals depending on the analysed attribute. This method was applied for the analysis of long term medical observations of atherosclerosis risk factors for cardio-vascular diseases prevention. Experimental results show that it is well-suited for extracting knowledge from temporal data where interesting patterns have different observation period length.

Publication
PKDD’04 Discovery Challenge on risk factors of patients with atherosclerosis co-located with the 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases PKDD’04, Pisa, Italy