===== Analysis and visualization of medication patterns =====


==== Facts ====

^ Type           | master project  |
^ Place          | internal        |
^ Supervisor     | Jack van Wijk   |
^ Student        | Paul van der Corput               |
^ Thesis         | [[http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra1/afstversl/wsk-i/corput2013.pdf|download]]|
^ start/end date | 2/2013-   8/2013            |

==== Description ====
Kempenhaeghe is an expertise center on epilepsy, sleeping disorders and
neurocognition.Researchers have collected data on medicine use from a large
number of epilepsy patients. There is a need to obtain insight into medication patterns.
Interactive visualization is a promising direction to this end. The data have
to be presented such that experts are enabled to derive hypotheses and
evaluate these.

The following data are available:

  *         type and dose of medication, from start of treatment until now;
  *         measured concentrations;
  *         characteristics of patients;
  *         medical specialist.

The challenge is to deal with this combination of a large amount of temporal data and 
attributes of stakeholders, such that useful insights can be obtained.

Based on interviews with experts of Kempenhaeghe the problem is analysed
and requirements are defined. Next is studied which existing analysis and
visualization methods are suitable, and where new methods are required. These
are implemented in a prototype and evaluated by experts.

==== Additional information ====
  * [[http://www.kempenhaeghe.nl|Kempenhaeghe, Heeze]]