Applying the SIM Tool in Clinical Practice: a Case Study in Neonatal Resuscitation Simulation

Abstract

In medical process mining, specific domain characteristics have to be dealt with: in particular, in medicine, a significant amount of expert knowledge is typically available; moreover, an interactive approach, letting medical users be involved in the work of process model discovery, is more acceptable than a completely automated strategy. To this end, in our recent work we have defined SIM (Semantic Interactive Miner), an innovative process mining tool able to: (i) support the interaction with medical experts, who can progressively merge parts of the initially mined model, obtaining a more generalized version; (ii) exploit pre-encoded domain knowledge, to move from a model where activities are reported at the ground level to a more user-interpretable high-level version. In this paper we illustrate the features of our tool by showing its application to the case study of neonatal resuscitation simulation: we use SIM to mine the process models produced by two different groups of students of a simulation course, aiming at verifying whether differently skilled young professionals produce different processes, which can finally be compared to the correct guideline.

Publication
In Procedia Computer Sciencce, Volume 225, Pages 2067-2075, 2023 (part of the special issue: 27th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2023), Athens, Greece, September 6-8, 2023)