Browsing by Author "Martin, Niels"

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    Building Process-Oriented Data Science Solutions for Real-World Healthcare
    (MDPI, 2022) Fernandez-Llatas, Carlos; Martin, Niels; Johnson, Owen; Sepúlveda, Marcos; Helm, Emmanuel; Muñoz Gama, Jorge
    The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted some of the opportunities, problems and barriers facing the application of Artificial Intelligence to the medical domain. It is becoming increasingly important to determine how Artificial Intelligence will help healthcare providers understand and improve the daily practice of medicine. As a part of the Artificial Intelligence research field, the Process-Oriented Data Science community has been active in the analysis of this situation and in identifying current challenges and available solutions. We have identified a need to integrate the best efforts made by the community to ensure that promised improvements to care processes can be achieved in real healthcare. In this paper, we argue that it is necessary to provide appropriate tools to support medical experts and that frequent, interactive communication between medical experts and data miners is needed to co-create solutions. Process-Oriented Data Science, and specifically concrete techniques such as Process Mining, can offer an easy to manage set of tools for developing understandable and explainable Artificial Intelligence solutions. Process Mining offers tools, methods and a data driven approach that can involve medical experts in the process of co-discovering real-world evidence in an interactive way. It is time for Process-Oriented Data scientists to collaborate more closely with healthcare professionals to provide and build useful, understandable solutions that answer practical questions in daily practice. With a shared vision, we should be better prepared to meet the complex challenges that will shape the future of healthcare.
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    Innovative informatics methods for process mining in health care
    (ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2022) Muñoz Gama, Jorge; Martin, Niels; Fernandez-Llatas, Carlos; Johnson, Owen A.; Sepulveda, Marcos
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    ProDeM: A Process-Oriented Delphi Method for systematic asynchronous and consensual surgical process modelling
    (ELSEVIER, 2023) Gonzalez-Lopez, Fernanda; Martin, Niels; de la Fuente, Rene; Galvez-Yanjari, Victor; Guzman, Javiera; Kattan, Eduardo; Sepulveda, Marcos; Muñoz Gama, Jorge
    Surgical process models support improving healthcare provision by facilitating communication and reasoning about processes in the medical domain. Modelling surgical processes is challenging as it requires integrating information that might be fragmented, scattered, and not process-oriented. These challenges can be faced by involving healthcare domain experts during process modelling. This paper presents ProDeM: a novel ProcessOriented Delphi Method for the systematic, asynchronous, and consensual modelling of surgical processes. ProDeM is an adaptable and flexible method that acknowledges that: (i) domain experts have busy calendars and might be geographically dispersed, and (ii) various elements of the process model need to be assessed to ensure model quality. The contribution of the paper is twofold as it outlines ProDeM, but also demonstrates its operationalisation in the context of a well-known surgical process. Besides showing the method's feasibility in practice, we also present an evaluation of the method by the experts involved in the demonstration.