Visual Phenotype Database
Discoveries in biology often require extensive knowledge of the genetics of an organism, a keen eye for phenotypes, a deep understanding of related species, and efficient strategies for collecting, combining, analyzing, and comparing data. Currently, .... [ more ]

Geospatial Information Retrieval and Indexing System
Searching for relevant knowledge across heterogeneous geospatial databases has always required an extensive knowledge of the semantic meaning of images, a keen eye for its visual patterns, and efficient strategies for collecting and analyzing data wi .... [ more ]

Real-Time Protein Tertiary Structure (3D) Retrievals and Classifications
Protein fold is known to be an important clue of detecting possible biological functions. The study of the structure-to-function relationships usually relies on an effective protein structure retrieval and classification method. The task of protein s .... [ more ]

Protein Prediction
This project consists of implementing a novel protein structure prediction algorithm based on the Sequential Forward Floating Selection algorithm. For any amino acid sequence, this algorithm will be able to determine a “close-to-optimal” set of s .... [ more ]

Knowledge Sharing and Event Alerting for Patient Safety
“To err is human.” Each year, 44,000-98,000 deaths may be due to medical errors, according to a report published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1999. That figure ranks medical errors anywhere from the fifth to the eighth leading cause of d .... [ more ]

Biomolecule Interaction Networks
Extended biomolecule binding or interaction networks can be built by computationally predicting protein-protein interactions from diverse data sources. To construct networks focused on cancer research our approach combines domain specific natural la .... [ more ]

Public Health and Data Mining
A domain-concept association rule (DCAR) mining on publicly available US survey data set, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS: http://www.cdc.gov/brfss) to find hidden associations among behavior, risk factors, and health. .... [ more ]

Knowledge-Driven High-Dimensional Indexing for Content-Based Retrieval
Knowledge-driven Content-based High-dimensional Indexing In today’s digital age, digital cameras, digital medical imaging, bioinformatics, biometrics and other sources are providing an ever-expanding source of digital content (media) for databases .... [ more ]

Patient-Centered Evidence-Based Medical Question and Answer
This project aims at the development of a medical question and answer system that will provide an easy-to-use interface for clinicians to retrieve evidence-based and patient-centered answers at the point of care. We research text mining and understa .... [ more ]

Biomedical Semantic Modeling
Essence is a semantic query system for diagnostic image database retrieval that uses physician-defined linguistic variables related to lung pathologies. Users are able to improve the quality of image retrieval by creating new, customized semantic ter .... [ more ]