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<p>This article deals with the issue of usability of an exploratory data analysis tool in the field of medicine. The text portion contains a description of the methods and the visualization procedure. It analyses the current state on usability, medical data visualization and presents the benefits of visualization tools. The goal of this research was to design and implement a suitable visualization tool for the provided dataset, which is the result of cooperation between Technical university of Košice and East Slovak Institute of Heart and Vascular Diseases (VÚSCH) and presents cardiovascular disease data. The resulting web application aimed to provide potential users with an overview of cardiovascular diseases and the influence of their lifestyle on the assumption of such a disease, and for experts to provide different forms of viewing the given data, as well as to facilitate their work. The application was then tested for usability in two iterations where corrections and improvements were made based on the given feedback. Thanks to this iterative procedure and careful reflection of the user feedback the application received endorsement as a valuable tool by the expert evaluator.</p>
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This article deals with the issue of usability of an exploratory data analysis tool in the field of medicine. The text portion contains a description of the methods and the visualization procedure. It analyses the current state on usability, medical data visualization and presents the benefits of visualization tools. The goal of this research was to design and implement a suitable visualization tool for the provided dataset, which is the result of cooperation between Technical university of Košice and East Slovak Institute of Heart and Vascular Diseases (VÚSCH) and presents cardiovascular disease data. The resulting web application aimed to provide potential users with an overview of cardiovascular diseases and the influence of their lifestyle on the assumption of such a disease, and for experts to provide different forms of viewing the given data, as well as to facilitate their work. The application was then tested for usability in two iterations where corrections and improvements were made based on the given feedback. Thanks to this iterative procedure and careful reflection of the user feedback the application received endorsement as a valuable tool by the expert evaluator.

Usability of Medical Data Analysis Tool

Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics

Acta Electrotechnica et Informatica

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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This article deals with the issue of usability of an exploratory data analysis tool in the field of medicine. The text portion contains a description of the...

Usability of Medical Data Analysis Tool

Published Online: Feb 28, 2024

Page range: 24 - 29

Received: Jan 16, 2024

Accepted: Feb 13, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aei-2023-0019

Keywords
cardiovascular diseases, data visualization, decision support, medical data, usability

© 2023 Oliver Lohaj et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Usability of Medical Data Analysis Tool

Published Online: Feb 28, 2024

Page range: 24 - 29

Received: Jan 16, 2024

Accepted: Feb 13, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aei-2023-0019

Keywordscardiovascular diseases, data visualization, decision support, medical data, usability

© 2023 Oliver Lohaj et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
cardiovascular diseases, data visualization, decision support, medical data, usability