On Entropy-Based Data Mining

Andreas Holzinger, Matthias Hörtenhuber, Christopher Mayer, Martin Bachler, Siegfried Wassertheurer, Armando Pinho, David Koslicki

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Abstract

In the real world, we are confronted not only with complex and high-dimensional data sets, but usually with noisy, incomplete and uncertain data, where the application of traditional methods of knowledge discovery and data mining always entail the danger of modeling artifacts. Originally, information entropy was introduced by Shannon (1949), as a measure of uncertainty in the data. But up to the present, there have emerged many different types of entropy methods with a large number of different purposes and possible application areas. In this paper, we briefly discuss the applicability of entropy methods for the use in knowledge discovery and data mining, with particular emphasis on biomedical data. We present a very short overview of the state-of-the-art, with focus on four methods: Approximate Entropy (ApEn), Sample Entropy (SampEn), Fuzzy Entropy (FuzzyEn), and Topological Entropy (FiniteTopEn). Finally, we discuss some open problems and future research challenges.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInteractive Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics, LNCS 8401
Place of PublicationHeidelberg, Berlin, New York
PublisherSpringer
Pages209-226
Volume8401
Edition1
ISBN (Print)978-3-662-43967-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Keywords

  • Information Entropy
  • Data Mining
  • Health Informatics
  • Knowledge Discovery
  • Topological Entropy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

Fields of Expertise

  • Information, Communication & Computing

Treatment code (Nähere Zuordnung)

  • Basic - Fundamental (Grundlagenforschung)
  • Application

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