Temporal abstractions for interpreting diabetic patients monitoring data

In this article we present a new approach for the intelligent analysis of longitudinal data coming from chronic patients home monitoring. This approach exploits temporal abstractions to pre-process the raw data and to obtain a new time series of abstract episodes, whose features are then interpreted through statistical and probabilistic techniques. We describe in detail an application of the presented technique to the analysis of diabetic patients' data, showing some results obtained on a real case monitored for six months. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.