Abstract
Recent technological advances in modern healthcare have lead to the ability to collect a vast wealth of patient monitoring data. This data can be utilised for patient diagnosis but it also holds the potential for use within medical research. However, these datasets often contain errors which limit their value to medical research, with one study finding error rates ranging from 2.3%-26.9% in a selection of medical databases. Previous methods for automatically assessing data quality normally rely on threshold rules, which are often unable to correctly identify errors, as further complex domain knowledge is required. To combat this, a semantic web based framework has previously been developed to assess the quality of medical data. However, early work, based solely on traditional semantic web technologies, revealed they are either unable or inefficient at scaling to the vast volumes of medical data. In this paper we present a new method for storing and querying medical RDF datasets using Hadoop Map / Reduce. This approach exploits the inherent parallelism found within RDF datasets and queries, allowing us to scale with both dataset and system size. Unlike previous solutions, this framework uses highly optimised (SPARQL) joining strategies, intelligent data caching and the use of a super-query to enable the completion of eight distinct SPARQL lookups, comprising over eighty distinct joins, in only two Map / Reduce iterations. Results are presented comparing both the Jena and a previous Hadoop implementation demonstrating the superior performance of the new methodology. The new method is shown to be five times faster than Jena and twice as fast as the previous approach.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2015 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Pages | 737-746 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781479999255 |
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Publication status | Published - 22 Dec 2015 |
Event | 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data - Santa Clara, United States Duration: 29 Oct 2015 → 1 Nov 2015 |
Conference
Conference | 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data |
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Abbreviated title | IEEE 2015 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Santa Clara |
Period | 29/10/15 → 1/11/15 |