An Application of Process Mining in the Context of Melanoma Surveillance Using Time Boxing

Process mining applications in the healthcare domain: A comprehensive review

“…Metsker et al (2017) developed a text mining‐based algorithms for the interpretation of medical records as a potential solution to the problem of knowledge retrieval from EHR. In Rinner et al (2018), the authors described a data preparation method which uses a naming convention based on “time boxing” for recurring events to model the time aspects used in medical guidelines. Each activity is associated to a “time box” (a fixed time period it matches in), each time box corresponds to an event in the medical guideline, and the events in each time box are named according to the name of the time box.…”

“…In the context of healthcare, the work on conformance analysis includes paper focusing on comparing the actual process model with the designed and prescriptive process model (e.g., clinical guidelines, models hand‐made by medical experts, etc.) (Anggrainingsih et al, 2018; Asare et al, 2020; Caron et al, 2014; de Vries et al, 2017; Fernández‐Llatas, Meneu, et al, 2011; Ganesha et al, 2017; Jaturogpattana et al, 2017; Kelleher et al, 2014; Kim et al, 2013; Kirchner et al, 2012; Kukreja & Batra, 2017; Mannhardt & Blinde, 2017; Neira et al, 2019; Placidi et al, 2021; Rinner et al, 2018; Rovani et al, 2015; H. Xu, Pang, Yang, Jinghui, et al, 2020; H. Xu, Pang, Yang, Ma, et al, 2020; H. Xu, Yan, Pang, Nan, et al, 2020; S. Yang, Li, et al, 2017; S. Yang, Sarcevic, et al, 2018). In these works, the results of conformance analysis are the detection and fully understanding where clinical practice deviates from the specifications in a care pathway, which leads to higher levels of quality care and patient outcomes.…”

“…Business Process Life cycle (BPL) (Weske, 2007) is a PM methodology typically adopted for conformance checking. Among the surveyed papers, those that followed this approach are nine in total (de Vries et al, 2017; Kelleher et al, 2014; Kirchner et al, 2012; Neira et al, 2019; Rinner et al, 2018; Rovani et al, 2015; H. Xu, Pang, Yang, Ma, et al, 2020; H. Xu, Yan, Pang, Nan, et al, 2020; S. Yang, Sarcevic, et al, 2018). As shown in Figure 15, BPL consists of four phases organized in a cyclical structure.…”

“…In the context of healthcare, the work on conformance analysis includes paper focusing on comparing the actual process model with the designed and prescriptive process model (e.g., clinical guidelines, models hand-made by medical experts, etc.) (Anggrainingsih et al, 2018;Asare et al, 2020;Caron et al, 2014;de Vries et al, 2017;Fern andez-Llatas, Meneu, et al, 2011;Ganesha et al, 2017;Jaturogpattana et al, 2017;Kelleher et al, 2014;Kim et al, 2013;Kirchner et al, 2012;Kukreja & Batra, 2017;Mannhardt & Blinde, 2017;Neira et al, 2019;Placidi et al, 2021;Rinner et al, 2018;Rovani et al, 2015;H. Xu, Pang, Yang, Jinghui, et al, 2020;H.…”

“…The interesting aspect is that the conformance checking is done on a sparse log, that is an execution's log storing not all the activities of a patient's treatment. Rinner et al (2018) described a method, called "time boxing," for data preparation using a specific naming convention to model the time aspects used in medical guidelines. Then they exploited the potential of time boxing for a more precise trace alignment between discovered process models and clinical guidelines.…”