Medical, health, and genomics
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Tech Showcase: Project InnerEye – Assistive AI for Cancer Treatment
Project InnerEye is a new AI product targeted at improving the productivity of oncologists, radiologists, and surgeons when working with radiological images. The project’s main focus is in the treatment of tumors and monitoring the…
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Reconfigurable Acceleration of Genomic Data Processing
This talk presents recent advances in speeding up the processing of genomic data, making use of reconfigurable data flow engines based on field programmable gate arrays. Our design involves the FM-index technique and exploits the…
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Biomedical Natural Language Processing
The biomedical sciences are beginning to undergo a major transformation. Precision medicine has the potential to make treatments much more effective by better understanding patients, biological mechanisms, and therapeutic effects. However, current approaches only reach…
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Project Emma
There is no cure for Parkinson’s, the disease that currently plagues more than 10 million people worldwide including Emma Lawton, a graphic designer diagnosed with the movement disorder in 2013. Fueled by her passion for…
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PhyloD
HIV, like most retroviruses, is characterized by a tremendous rate of mutation, which leads to a high level of genetic diversity within and among patients. This genetic variation is the substrate for rapid within-host evolution.…
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Utilizing Social Media for Disaster Relief
Effective coordination of post-disaster relief operations depends critically on the availability of reliable situational information, as well as on citizen participation in the operations. The advent of online social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook) and the…
