Rainbow boxes: A new technique for overlapping set visualization and two applications in the biomedical domain

Autor: Hélène Berthelot, Coralie Capron, Madeleine Favre, Jean-Baptiste Lamy
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale et Ingénierie des Connaissances en e-Santé (LIMICS), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris 13 (UP13), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), Université Paris Descartes - Faculté de Médecine (UPD5 Médecine), ANSM VIIIP, Université Paris 13 (UP13)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Lamy, Jean-Baptiste
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
[INFO.INFO-AI] Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI]
User study
020205 medical informatics
Computer science
Heuristic (computer science)
Gene annotation
[INFO.INFO-GR] Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR]
02 engineering and technology
computer.software_genre
Language and Linguistics
Domain (software engineering)
[INFO.INFO-AI]Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI]
Set (abstract data type)
Information visualization
Annotation
Drug properties
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
[INFO.INFO-HC]Computer Science [cs]/Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]
Knowledge visualization
business.industry
Visual comparison
020207 software engineering
Gene Annotation
[INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR]
Computer Science Applications
Visualization
Human-Computer Interaction
[SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie
[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie
Data mining
[INFO.INFO-HC] Computer Science [cs]/Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]
business
computer
Overlapping set visualization
Zdroj: Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Elsevier, 2017, 43, pp.71-82. ⟨10.1016/j.jvlc.2017.09.003⟩
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 2017, 43, pp.71-82. ⟨10.1016/j.jvlc.2017.09.003⟩
ISSN: 1045-926X
1095-8533
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2017.09.003⟩
Popis: International audience; Overlapping set visualization is a well-known problem in information visualization. This problem considers elements and sets containing all or part of the elements, a given element possibly belonging to more than one set. A typical example is the properties of the 20 amino-acids. A more complex application is the visual comparison of the contraindications or the adverse effects of several similar drugs. The knowledge involved is voluminous, each drug has many contraindications and adverse effects, some of them are shared with other drugs. Another real-life application is the visualization of gene annotation, each gene product being annotated with several annotation terms indicating the associated biological processes, molecular functions and cellular components. In this paper, we present rainbow boxes, a novel technique for visualizing overlapping sets, and its application to the presentation of the properties of amino-acids, the comparison of drug properties, and the visualization of gene annotation. This technique requires solving a combinatorial optimization problem; we propose a specific heuristic and we evaluate and compare it to general optimization algorithms. We also describe a user study comparing rainbow boxes to tables and showing that the former allowed physicians to find information significantly faster. Finally, we discuss the limits and the perspectives of rainbow boxes.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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