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Horn (NL) / Vienna (AT), 27 November 2020 Viscovery incorporates assessment parameters for better pulmonary rehabilitation programs

Together with Ingrid Augustin and her colleagues from our long term customer CIRO+, we published the article Incorporating comprehensive assessment parameters to better characterize and plan rehabilitation for persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

This article describes a follow-up clustering model to the articles from 2018 by Ingrid Augustin, her colleagues and Viscovery. In addition to pulmonary traits, the new Viscovery model incorporates extrapulmonary functional traits and general health status to give a more detailed view on persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Horn (NL) / Vienna (AT), 27 June 2019 Next step in big health data exploration with Viscovery SOMine

Together with Daisy Janssen and her colleagues from our long term customer CIRO+, we published the article Clustering of 27,525,663 death records from the United States Based on health conditions associated with death: an example of big health data exploration in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

Following a population-based approach to palliative care, this article analyzes more than 27 million US death certificates from 2006 to 2016 with respect to common comorbidities, socio-demographic background and circumstances of death. Viscovery SOMine's Big Data capabilities are used to cluster the death records in the 346-dimensional space of health conditions, to identify population-based patterns, and to derive implications for palliative care.

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Horn (NL) / Vienna (AT), 14 April 2019 Together with Filip Triest and his colleagues from our long term customer CIRO+, we published the article Disease-specific comorbidity clusters in COPD and accelerated aging in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

This article analyzes the connection between disease-specific comorbidity clusters in COPD patients and accelerated aging. Viscovery SOMine is used to cluster COPD patients and a comparable control group to evaluate the decrease in telomere length in COPD-specific clusters.

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Horn (NL) / Vienna (AT), 27 December 2018 Together with Ingrid Augustin and her colleagues from our long term customer CIRO+, we published the article Comprehensive lung function assessment does not allow to infer response to pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

This article examines whether the extent of improvement in lung function, exercise performance, daily activities, mood, and disease-specific health status of COPD patients undergoing pulmonary rehabilitation can be predicted from the lung function profile prior to rehabilitation. The lung function data is clustered with Viscovery SOMine to obtain and statistically analyze groups of patients with similar profiles.

Find the full open access article at www.mdpi.com.