Dataface: a suggested method for visual data reduction for pattern recognition.

Abstract

There are many clinical situations in which diagnostic information is sought from an abundance of numerical material. Information is conveyed by the absolute deviation of individual values, given a knowledge of the normal statistical and biological variation of that parameter and also by the associative patterns of those individual values. Translating a series of measurements into scene objects produces a composite image which preserves those two types of information. This approach is illustrated in the disparate situations of newborn intensive care monitoring and exploratory data analysis in ultrasonic tissue characterisation.