%A Xie Wang, Wang Lizhen, Chen Hongmei, Zeng Lanqing %T Identifying Relationship Between Pollution Sources and Cancer Cases with Spatial Ordered Pair Patterns %0 Journal Article %D 2021 %J Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery %R 10.11925/infotech.2096-3467.2020.1026 %P 14-31 %V 5 %N 2 %U {https://manu44.magtech.com.cn/Jwk_infotech_wk3/CN/abstract/article_5022.shtml} %8 2021-02-25 %X

[Objective] This paper tries to identify the relationship between pollution sources and cancer cases, aiming to address the issues of discovering too many non-pertnient patterns by method using spatial co-location patterns. [Methods] First, we combined the properties of Voronoi diagram and the star instance model. Then, we defined the proximity relationship between spatial instances and the concept of spatial ordered pair patterns. Third, we decided the prevalence and the influence of the spatial ordered pair patterns based on the distance attenuation and the influence superposition effects. Finally, we proposed a basic algorithm and an optimization algorithm to examine the spatial ordered pair patterns.[Results] The proposed algorithms revealed more pertinent relationship which cannot be identified by the traditional algorithms. And the total number of results was much less than those of the traditional algorithms. Compared with the basic algorithm, the pruning rate of the optimization algorithm surpassed 80%. The larger the data set, the better the results. [Limitations] The default data are all point-spatial objects, while the extended spatial objects merit more studies. [Conclusions] The spatial ordered pair patterns could effectively identify the relationship between pollution sources and cancer cases.