Dynamic Interpretable Change Point Detection for Physiological Data Analysis

Abstract

Identifying change points (CPs) in time series is crucial to guide better decision-making in healthcare, and facilitating timely responses to potential risks or opportunities. In maternal health, monitoring health signals in pregnant women allows healthcare providers to promptly respond to complications like preeclampsia or enhance delivery time detection, improving overall maternal care. Existing Change Point Detection (CPD) methods often fail to generalize effectively due to diverse underlying changes that can cause a CP. We propose Ti me Va rying CPD (TiVaCPD), a change point detection method that captures different types of changes in the underlying distribution of multidimensional data. It combines a dynamic window MMD test with a graphical Lasso estimator of feature covariance to measure both changes in the joint distribution of the observations as well as changes in feature dynamics. TiVaCPD generates a unifying CP score by evaluating the relative similarity of the statistical tests. Additionally, TiVaCPD score enhances interpretability by offering insight into the underlying causes of CPs through a detailed analysis of feature dynamics, which is especially valuable in healthcare applications. We evaluate the performance of TiVaCPD on both simulated and real-world data, showing that it can outperform state-of-the-art methods. We further demonstrate the appliance of TiVaCPD in a pregnancy-related case study, showcasing the joint shifts in physiological signals that facilitate the detection of delivery time.

Jennifer Yu

MSc. Student

My research interests include distributed robotics, mobile computing and programmable matter.