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Marc Hermes¹, Timo Wolters¹, Nico Schult¹

¹Division Health, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Escherweg 2, Oldenburg, Germany.

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Summary

This study introduces a novel Natural Language Processing (NLP)-inspired method using a sliding window and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to predict user interactions in medical analysis systems. This approach enhances machine learning model performance for complex cancer data analysis.

Keywords:

LDA Medical analysis system NLP categorical encoding classification ensemble learning feature hashing one-hot online learning pre-processing

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Area of Science:

Medical Informatics
Machine Learning
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

Cancer data analysis systems are complex, posing challenges for both the systems and their users.
Assisting users requires understanding their interaction patterns within these systems.
Identifying user behavior patterns is crucial for developing effective user support.

Purpose of the Study:

To predict the next user interaction within the CARESS medical analysis system.
To develop and evaluate an effective pre-processing scheme for user interaction data.
To improve the performance of machine learning algorithms in analyzing user behavior.

Main Methods:

Utilized machine learning algorithms to analyze user behavior patterns.
Proposed a Natural Language Processing (NLP)-inspired pre-processing approach.
Implemented a sliding window combined with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to extract latent topics from recent user interactions.
Compared the proposed scheme with one-hot encoding and feature hashing.

Main Results:

The sliding window LDA pre-processing scheme significantly improved the prediction of user interactions.
The proposed NLP-inspired method outperformed traditional methods like one-hot encoding and feature hashing.
The approach successfully preserved semantic cohesion of categorical user interaction features.

Conclusions:

The sliding window LDA scheme is a promising solution for analyzing user behavior in complex domains.
This research provides a foundation for developing better user assistance in medical analysis systems.
Further research can build upon these findings to enhance user support in specialized software.