MUIDSI Comprehensive Exam — Measuring Geodiversity in Remotely-Sensed Imagery: Deep Spatial Change Detection Methods for Dataset Bias Mitigation and Visual Landscape Characterization
Amid explosive growth in availability of multimodal remotely sensed imagery (RSI) data from a constellation of overhead sensors, a lack of understanding persists concerning the actual content of these data sources, in particular the nature of spatial variation in the…
Comprehensive Exam: Using subgroup discovery techniques to identify a high-risk group of suicide attempts among people with diabetes
In 2019, 37.3 million Americans had diabetes mellitus, and 1.2 million Americans aged 18 and older had attempted suicide in the past year. According to previous studies, people with type 1 diabetes were three to four times more likely to…
Comprehensive Exam: Accelerating Data-Driven Discovery In Type 1 Diabetes:An Informatics-Based Approach
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an immune-associated or immune-mediated chronic disease characterized by the progressive failure or targeted destruction of insulin-producing beta (β) cells in the pancreas. Management of the disease is challenging, involving lifelong exogeneous insulin replacement and 24/7 blood…
Computational Subgroups Stratification and Precision Drug Repositioning Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Enabling precision medicine requires developing robust patient stratification methods and identifying drugs tailored to homogeneous subgroups of patients from a heterogeneous population. Once discovering these subgroups, we can align patients and medications more specifically to achieve precision-based therapy. Developing de novo drugs…
Comprehensive Exam Announcement – A Case-Control based Genomic Analysis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a respiratory illness that affects millions of people all over the world. It is a major cause of chronic morbidity and mortality and a serious global public health problem. COPD is the fourth leading…
Thyroid Cancer Informatics
Survival prediction is important both to clinicians and patients; ensuring the best course of treatment is selected to manage the thyroid cancer. In 2018, there was an estimated half a million new thyroid cancer diagnoses and 41,071 deaths. Unlike other tumors whose…
A Case-Control based Genomic Analysis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a respiratory illness that affects millions of people all over the world. It is a major cause of chronic morbidity and mortality and a serious global public health problem. COPD is the fourth leading…
Using Big Data to Identify Possible External Risk Factors for Poorly Understood Cancers
Worldwide, cancer is the second leading cause of death (Cancer, 2012). There were 17 million new cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths worldwide in 2018, including approximately 1.7 million new U.S. cases and 600,000 U.S. cancer deaths (Cancer Facts & Figures 2018 |…
An Evaluation of Physician Burnout by EMR Use Characterization and Correlation
Burnout disproportionately affects healthcare workers and continues to rise. This condition potentially contributes to cost, quality and patient safety risk in an already overburdened United States healthcare system. While the causes of burnout are complex, evidence exists pointing to Electronic Medical Record…