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Table 1 Comparison of different implementations and optimizations. The table shows actual times spent with updating and querying the generalization lattice with different implementations as well as improvements in performance compared to closest less sophisticated implementation option

From: Efficient and effective pruning strategies for health data de-identification

 

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4

Dataset

Simple list

List with antichain

Prefix tree with antichain

Optimized tree with antichain

Adult

0.247s

0.230s (6.88 %)

0.061s (73.48 %)

0.055s (9.84 %)

Cup

0.658s

0.525s (20.21 %)

0.232s (55.81 %)

0.218s (6.03 %)

Fars

0.364s

0.240s (34.07 %)

0.074s (69.17 %)

0.071s (4.05 %)

Atus

0.300s

0.185s (38.33 %)

0.095s (48.65 %)

0.081s (14.74 %)

IHIS

0.437s

0.251s (42.56 %)

0.124s (50.60 %)

0.093s (25.00 %)

SS13ACS

21.730s

15.032s (30.82 %)

1.861s (87.62 %)

1.797s (3.44 %)

  1. The SACS13 dataset contained 10 attributes.