Machine Learning for Biomedical Time Series Classification: From Shapelets to Deep Learning.

Journal: Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
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Abstract

With the biomedical field generating large quantities of time series data, there has been a growing interest in developing and refining machine learning methods that allow its mining and exploitation. Classification is one of the most important and challenging machine learning tasks related to time series. Many biomedical phenomena, such as the brain's activity or blood pressure, change over time. The objective of this chapter is to provide a gentle introduction to time series classification. In the first part we describe the characteristics of time series data and challenges in its analysis. The second part provides an overview of common machine learning methods used for time series classification. A real-world use case, the early recognition of sepsis, demonstrates the applicability of the methods discussed.

Authors

  • Christian Bock
    Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Michael Moor
    Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Catherine R Jutzeler
    Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Karsten Borgwardt
    Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland.