Seminar

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…

Exploratory analysis of the use of Telemedicine in Primary care

This research is primarily focused on use of Telemedicine in Primary care and how that usage changed over time especially COVID 19. In this research, we did a scoping review to see how Primary care adapted Telemedicine during COVID-19 and…