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Title: Evaluation of Clustering Techniques for GPS Phenotyping Using Mobile Sensor Data
With the ubiquitousness of mobile smart phones, health researchers are increasingly interested in leveraging these commonplace devices as data collection instruments for near real-time data to aid in remote monitoring, and to support analysis and detection of patterns associated with a variety of health-related outcomes. As such, this work focuses on the analysis of GPS data collected through an open-source mobile platform over two months in support of a larger study being undertaken to develop a digital phenotype for pregnancy using smart phone data. An exploration of a variety of off-the-shelf clustering methods was completed to assess accuracy and runtime performance for a modest time-series of 292K non-uniform samples on the Stampede2 system at TACC. Motivated by phenotyping needs to not-only assess the physical coordinates of GPS clusters, but also the accumulated time spent at high-interest locations, two additional approaches were implemented to facilitate cluster time accumulation using a pre-processing step that was also crucial in improving clustering accuracy and scalability.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1838901
PAR ID:
10209199
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
PEARC '20: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing
Page Range / eLocation ID:
364–371
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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