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# Awesome Visual Analytics in Healthcare



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A community-curated list of awesome resources for visual analytics in healthcare. This list will be of interest to wide audience, including, students, academics, practitioners and healthcare professionals.



AMIA Visual Analytics Working Group maintains this list, although we do not endorse any resource in particular. We welcome suggestions as GitHub [Pull Requests](https://github.com/visualanalyticshealthcare/awesome-visual-analytics-healthcare/blob/main/contributing.md) or [Discussion posts](https://github.com/visualanalyticshealthcare/awesome-visual-analytics-healthcare/discussions) or via this [Airtable form (no login required)](https://airtable.com/shry5YQ14yHQEyw57).



Related Awesome lists:



- [`fasouto/awesome-dataviz`](https://github.com/fasouto/awesome-dataviz)

- [`javierluraschi/awesome-dataviz`](https://github.com/javierluraschi/awesome-dataviz)

- [`mathisonian/awesome-visualization-research`](https://github.com/mathisonian/awesome-visualization-research)

- [`kakoni/awesome-healthcare`](https://github.com/kakoni/awesome-healthcare)



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## Table of Contents



(alphabetical order)



- [Articles](#articles)

- [Books](#books)

- [Checklists & Guidelines](#checklists--guidelines)

- [Collections](#collections)

- [Conferences](#conferences)

- [Courses](#courses)

- [Notable works](#notable-works)

- [Publications](#publications)

- [Tools](#tools)



## Articles



- [Data-Driven Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities for Interactive Visualization](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7466736) by David Gotz & David Borland from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications



## Books



- [Fundamentals of Data Visualization](https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/index.html) by Claus O. Wilke (not specific to healthcare but freely accessible under the Creative Commons License)

- [Tableau for Healthcare](https://healthdataviz.com/resources/) by Daniel Benevento, Katherine Rowell, Janet Steeger

- [Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data](https://healthdataviz.com/resources/) by Lindsay Betzendahl, Cambria Brown & Katherine Rowell



## Checklists & Guidelines



- [Development of a usability checklist for public health dashboards to identify violations of usability principles](https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article/29/11/1847/6670608) by Bahareh Ansari & Erika G Martin from University at Albany on JAMIA - A usability checklist for public health dashboards with 86 items covering 11 areas of considerations

- [The Development of Heuristics for Evaluation of Dashboard Visualizations](https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/html/10.1055/s-0038-1666842) by Dawn Dowding & Jacqueline A. Merrill from University of Manchester & Columbia University on Appl Clin Inform - A checklist of usability heuristics for evaluating information visualization systems that can contribute to assuring high quality in electronic data systems developed for health care.



## Collections



- [EHR STAR](https://ehr.wangqiru.com/table/) by Qiru Wang - a collection of literature and datasets included in the state-of-the-art (STAR) report, [EHR STAR: The State-of-the-art in Interactive EHR and PopHR Visualization](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cgf.14424)

- [GenoCAT](http://genocat.tools) by [Gehlenborg Lab](http://gehlenborglab.org) - a database of genomic visualization tools

- [Visualization Design Studio](https://tinyurl.com/y6rlv72a) led by [Adriana Arcia](https://www.nursing.columbia.edu/profile/adriana-arcia-phd) more info on this [page](https://vis-studio.mailchimpsites.com).

  - [A list of Online Visualization Resources](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IlxBx_5JEZ2wVLcRXBmYz99nD2wYZuaZ/view) by Adriana Arcia



## Conferences



- [VAHC Workshop](https://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org) - Visual Analytics in Healthcare Workshop is an annual academic event hosted alternatively at AMIA (on even years) and IEEE VIS (on odd years). The workshop is dedicated to the study of visual analytics in healthcare. The workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their work, and to identify research challenges and opportunities in the field.



## Courses



- [Data Analytics and Visualization in Health Care](https://www.edx.org/course/data-analytics-and-visualization-in-health-care) from Rochester Institute of Technology on edX

- [Information Visualization Specialization](https://www.coursera.org/specializations/information-visualization) from New York University on Coursera (not specific to healthcare)



## Notable works



### Featured in AMIA Year in Review



#### 2023



- [Integrating statistical and visual analytic methods for bot identification of health-related survey data] (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37419375/) by Annie T. Chen, ..., Yan Zhang from University of Washington and UT Austin. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, July 2023



#### 2022



- [Loon: Using Exemplars to Visualize Large-Scale Microscopy Data](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9552235/) by Devin Lange, ..., Alexander Lex from University of Utah on IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics - a visualization tool for analyzing drug screening data based on quantitative phase microscopy imaging for patient-specific cancer drug selection. [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/visdesignlab/Loon)

- [VBridge: Connecting the Dots Between Features and Data to Explain Healthcare Models](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9555810/) by Furui Cheng, ..., Kalyan Veeramachaneni from Hong Kong University and MIT on IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics - VBridge incorporates ML explanations into clinicians’ decision-making workflow. [GitHub Repo (MIT License)](https://github.com/sibyl-dev/VBridge)

- [A flexible framework for visualizing and exploring patient misdiagnosis over time](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046422001897) by Wathsala Widanagamaachchi, ..., Mkoto Jones from University of Utah on JBI - Framework for exploring the cohorts diagnoses over time



#### 2020



- [Visual analogies, not graphs, increase patients' comprehension of changes in their health status](https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article-abstract/27/5/677/5717999) by Meghan Reading Turchio, ..., Ruth Masterson Creber from Cornell, Columbia, others on JAMIA - Patient comprehension of their self-reported outcomes



#### 2019



- [A federated EHR network data completeness tracking system](https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article-abstract/26/7/637/5423491) by Hossein Estiri,..., Shawn N. Murphy from Massachusetts General Hospital on J Am Med Inform Assoc - DQe-c is an open source tool for evaluating completeness in EHR data repositories

- [A smartwatch-based framework for real-time and online assessment and mobility monitoring](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046418302120) by Matin Kheirkhahan, ..., Sanjay Ranka from University of Florida on J Biomed Inform



#### 2018



- [A visual analytics approach for pattern-recognition in patient-generated data](https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article-abstract/25/10/1366/5037318) by Daniel Feller, ..., Lena Mamykina from Columbia University on JAMIA - Authors developed Glucolyzer to help dieticians interpret glucose and meal data

- [Eye-Tracking Study to Enhance Usability of Molecular Diagnostics Reports in Cancer Precision Medicine](https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/PO.17.00296) by Vishakha Sharma, ..., Subha Madhavan from Georgetown University on JCO Precision Oncology.



# Visual Analytics 101



## Publications



### Academic Informatics



### Human-Computer Interaction / Human-centered Design



### Consumer Health Informatics



### Clinical Decision Support



### Visual Analytics System



### Review Paper



- [EHR STAR: The State-of-the-art in Interactive EHR and PopHR Visualization](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cgf.14424) by Qiru Wang & Robert Laramee from University of Nottingham on Computer Graphics Forum

- [Evaluating visual analytics for health informatics applications: a systematic review from the American Medical Informatics Association Visual Analytics Working Group Task Force on Evaluation](https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article/26/4/314/5320044) by Danny Wu, ..., David Gotz from AMIA Visual Analytics Working Group on JAMIA

- [Tasks, Techniques, and Tools for Genomic Data Visualization](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cgf.13727) by Sabrina Nusrat, Theresa Harbig, and Nils Gehlenborg from Harvard University on Computer Graphics Forum



## Tools



- [CadenceEVA](https://github.com/VACLab/CadenceEVA) - a visual analytics platform for event sequence analysis

- [PyHealth](https://github.com/sunlabuiuc/PyHealth) - a Python Library for Healthcare Predictive Tasks

- [SandDance](https://microsoft.github.io/SandDance/app/) - SandDance is a web-based application that enables you to more easily explore, identify, and communicate insights about tabular data.



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