Developing a Web-based Interface of Sensor Technologies for Interventionists
The widespread adoption and growth of the consumer sensor technologies, including wearable and in-home sensors, present an opportunity for ambient monitoring of activities of daily living (ADLs) for health and behavioral intervention. Yet no open-source systems exist to incorporate disparate…
Artificial Intelligence in Disease Prediction using Real World Health Data: Trends, Challenges, and The Future
Recent years have seen significant progress in using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop disease prediction models, which have the potential to improve diagnosis precision, enable early disease prevention, streamline clinical decision making, and reduce healthcare costs. This progress has been…
Rural populations facilitate early SARS-CoV-2 evolution and transmission
In the United States, rural populations comprise 60 million individuals and suffer from high COVID-19 disease burdens. Despite this, surveillance efforts are biased toward urban centers. Consequently, how rurally circulating SARS-CoV-2 viruses contribute toward emerging variants remains unknown. In this study,…
Exploration of Obesity and Multimorbidity at a Single Academic Institution.
In the US, overweight and obese adults account for more than two-thirds of the total population. Obesity has been established as a risk factor in many chronic conditions; and chronic conditions account for seven out of the top 10 leading…
Identification of Spatially Variable Genes
Invasive species pose a unique threat to native species and habitat through direct and indirect competition of resources. Management of invasive species depends on precise identification of their current range and knowledge of how they spread. This project will utilize…
Modeling Pyrus calleryana spread in central Missouri using remote sensing and a non-parametric modeling approach
Invasive species pose a unique threat to native species and habitat through direct and indirect competition of resources. Management of invasive species depends on precise identification of their current range and knowledge of how they spread. This project will utilize…
Relationships between mortality and respiratory health, medication usage, water disappearance, and climatic conditions in commercial weaning-to-finishing pigs
Mortality in pigs is of paramount economic importance to United States pig producers. According to data compiled by MetaFarms SMS and Pork Checkoff in 2022, 21.2% of pigs die before reaching slaughter, and this statistic has increased, in general, over the…
DeepVariant – TrioTrain: Developing a transfer learning protocol using non-human genomes
Genomic data are widely available for investigating phenotypes that impact both human and animal health. Although the investigation of human health often begins with model organisms, genomics technologies and software are often initially developed with only the human genome in…
MUIDSI DISSERTATION DEFENSE – ACCELERATING DATA-DRIVEN DISCOVERY IN TYPE 1 DIABETES: AN INFORMATICS-BASED APPROACH
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a lifelong chronic disease characterized by the absolute or near-absolute loss of insulin. For affected individuals, management of T1D is an unremitting challenge that involves constant blood glucose monitoring and lifelong administration and titration of…