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Improving Quality of Observational Streaming Medical Data by Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs)

by Michael B Bowie, Edmon Begoli, Byung H Park
Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
2018 IEEE 34th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW)
Publication Date
Page Numbers
48 to 53
Publisher Location
New Jersey, United States of America
Conference Name
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDEW 2018)
Conference Location
Paris, France
Conference Sponsor
IEEE
Conference Date
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We present an exploration of the encoder-decoder structured Long Short-Term Memory Network (LSTM) as a detector of the anomalous missing observations in streaming medical data by using the difference between the LSTM-reconstructed and observed values as the anomaly detector. We experiment with time-series data from bedside monitoring devices from the available Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care Database (MIMIC). Our results show that not only encoder-decoder LSTM approach works well for detecting the difference between anomalous and normal missing observations in streaming medical data, but also has an imputation potential for the missing data.