GraphXplore: Visual exploration and accessible preprocessing of medical data
Data-driven medical research requires explainable, robust models that can handle the noisy, high-dimensional nature of electronic healthcare data while adequately communicating the results to physicians. Additionally, metadata sharing, and reproducible dataset preparation are needed to increase data quality and interoperability of privacy-sensitive patient data. In this work, we present GraphXplore, a tool for visual data exploration, automatic metadata extraction and data transformation. It enables explainable, easy-to-use exploratory data analysis paired with dataset preparation and metadata annotation accessible for physicians. The tool is implemented as a Python package and graphical user interface application tailored to the needs of medical researchers and modularly integrable into hospital data warehouse infrastructures.
Authors
- Frank Ückert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8362-5636)
- Karl Gottfried (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2100-3409)
- Philipp Breitfeld (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0753-8463)
- Louis Bellmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7920-1889)
Institutions
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (DE)
- National Cancer Registry (IE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- SoftwareX
- Published
- 2024-11-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101978
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.47