Oklahoma State UniversityAhmad SalehiyanIndustrial Engineer
Health Data Analytics

Disease Cluster Analysis in Electronic Health Records (MIMIC-IV)

Cohort of 179,524 adult patients (ages 18–91), 11,733 mortality cases, 846 distinct diseases. Apriori association rule mining (minimum support 0.01) found 628 association rules with confidence above 50%. k-means clustering after t-SNE, k = 4 by silhouette analysis (score 0.44). Published in IISE Annual Conference & Expo proceedings, 2025.

Disease Cluster Analysis in Electronic Health Records (MIMIC-IV)

Timeline

2025

Impact Focus

628 association rules with confidence above 50%; published in IISE Annual Conference & Expo proceedings, 2025.

Core Tools

EHR, MIMIC-IV, Python, clustering

Problem

Comorbidity and mortality patterns in electronic health records.

What I did

Apriori association rule mining (minimum support 0.01), t-SNE, and k-means clustering; k = 4 by silhouette analysis (score 0.44).

Result

628 association rules with confidence above 50%; published in IISE Annual Conference & Expo proceedings, 2025.

What changed

  • - 179,524 adult patients (ages 18–91)
  • - 11,733 mortality cases and 846 distinct diseases

Deliverables

  • - 628 association rules with confidence above 50%; published in IISE Annual Conference & Expo proceedings, 2025.

Stack

EHR
MIMIC-IV
Python
clustering
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