Bridging the Clinical Expertise Gap: Development of a Web-Based Platform for Accessible Time Series Forecasting and Analysis
This work addresses the accessibility gap in time series forecasting for healthcare professionals, but it is incremental as it focuses on tool development rather than novel forecasting methods.
The authors tackled the problem of technical expertise barriers in time series forecasting for healthcare by developing a web-based platform that enables researchers and clinicians to upload data, train customizable models, and interpret results with AI-generated recommendations, aiming to integrate it into learning health systems for continuous data analysis.
Time series forecasting has applications across domains and industries, especially in healthcare, but the technical expertise required to analyze data, build models, and interpret results can be a barrier to using these techniques. This article presents a web platform that makes the process of analyzing and plotting data, training forecasting models, and interpreting and viewing results accessible to researchers and clinicians. Users can upload data and generate plots to showcase their variables and the relationships between them. The platform supports multiple forecasting models and training techniques which are highly customizable according to the user's needs. Additionally, recommendations and explanations can be generated from a large language model that can help the user choose appropriate parameters for their data and understand the results for each model. The goal is to integrate this platform into learning health systems for continuous data collection and inference from clinical pipelines.