Enabling Longitudinal Exploratory Analysis of Clinical COVID Data
This work supports exploratory analysis for clinicians and researchers, but it is incremental as it applies existing methods to new data.
The researchers tackled the problem of analyzing longitudinal clinical COVID-19 data by applying existing visual analytics technologies to a cohort of 998 patients, resulting in initial findings and lessons learned for future improvements.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the world, data is being gathered and analyzed to better understand the disease. Recognizing the potential for visual analytics technologies to support exploratory analysis and hypothesis generation from longitudinal clinical data, a team of collaborators worked to apply existing event sequence visual analytics technologies to a longitudinal clinical data from a cohort of 998 patients with high rates of COVID-19 infection. This paper describes the initial steps toward this goal, including: (1) the data transformation and processing work required to prepare the data for visual analysis, (2) initial findings and observations, and (3) qualitative feedback and lessons learned which highlight key features as well as limitations to address in future work.