From Semantically Abstracted Traces to Process Mining and Process Model Comparison

Leonardi, Giorgio; Striani, Manuel; Quaglini, Silvana; Cavallini, Anna; Montani, Stefania

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-03840-3_4

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“…Process models are traditionally compared with linear search techniques where a query model is compared to each model in the collection and focuses on process models that are composed of atomic tasks and connectors [ 19 ]. In a complex domain like health care, a lot of research attention has been paid to other process modeling constructs, such as sub-process invocation, exception handlers, control-flow view of process models, and resource allocation views [ 20 ]. In the health care domain, we need to differentiate between slightly different models and completely different models.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automatic Process Comparison for Subpopulations: Application in Cancer Care

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IJERPH

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Processes in organisations, such as hospitals, may deviate from the intended standard processes, due to unforeseeable events and the complexity of the organisation. For hospitals, the knowledge of actual patient streams for patient populations (e.g., severe or non-severe cases) is important for quality control and improvement. Process discovery from event data in electronic health records can shed light on the patient flows, but their comparison for different populations is cumbersome and time-consuming. In this paper, we present an approach for the automatic comparison of process models that were extracted from events in electronic health records. Concretely, we propose comparing processes for different patient populations by cross-log conformance checking, and standard graph similarity measures obtained from the directed graph underlying the process model. We perform a user study with 20 participants in order to obtain a ground truth for similarity of process models. We evaluate our approach on two data sets, the publicly available MIMIC database with the focus on different cancer patients in intensive care, and a database on breast cancer patients from a Dutch hospital. In our experiments, we found average fitness to be a good indicator for visual similarity in the ZGT use case, while the average precision and graph edit distance are strongly correlated with visual impression for cancer process models on MIMIC. These results are a call for further research and evaluation for determining which similarity or combination of similarities is needed in which type of process model comparison.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%