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...

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Main Authors: Louis Bellmann, Karl Gottfried, Philipp Breitfeld, Frank Ückert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-02-01
Series:SoftwareX
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711024003480
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2352-7110