6.872/HST.950  Biomedical Computing

Workshop on medical "big data" -- FYI

Subject: Unlocking the Power of Medical Big Data

Medical big data has the potential to transform the way we understand and treat medical conditions. Digitization of healthcare records, collection of data from sensors and widespread aggregation and sharing of research presents great opportunities as well as great challenges. We are very interested in defining the systems, developing the science, and demonstrating the value of this data and how it can usher in a new generation of evidence-based medicine.

The Multi-parameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care (MIMIC) dataset is a large open source dataset collected from patients admitted to an Intensive Care Unit between 2001 and 2008. This dataset contains data such as physiological signals and comprehensive clinical data collected from medical information systems. This dataset provides a glimpse into the challenges associated with medical big data such as data integrity and variety.

We are hosting a workshop to get like-minded people together. The goal of this workshop is to exchange ideas, come up with potential capstone/graduate projects, and learn more about the state of the art. Students with a background in signal processing, big data, and biomedical engineering will be ideally suited for the workshop (all are welcome!). For students who are interested, we have funding available to support capstone or graduate level projects.

If you are interested in learning more about this work or attending the workshop please email Sam Madden (madden@csail.mit.edu) and Vijay Gadepally (vijayg@csail.mit.edu).

Agenda:

1) Introduction and Welcome – Vijay Gadepally and Sam Madden (15min)
2) About the Program – Sam Madden (30min)
3) About MIMIC II Dataset/Current Research Efforts – Mornin’ Feng (60 min)
4) SciDB – Paradigm4 (30min)
5) Project Ideas – Vijay Gadepally (30min)
6) Group discussion – All (60 min)
7) Feedback and closing (15min)

Date and Time:

January 13 2015 12:30-5pm
Food will be provided!
Please RSVP by emailing madden@csail.mit.edu and vijayg@csail.mit.edu

Location:

32-D463 (Stata Center, 4th Floor, Star Conference Room)

Announced on 12 December 2014  9:20  a.m. by Peter Szolovits

Project presentations

Here is the schedule of presentations:
Thu 12/4:
Hilary Mulhulland, Rachel Naphthal
Jonathan Terry
Joseph Driscoll, Michelle Chen

Tue 12/9
Brian Bell, Prashan Wanigasekara
Beth Hadley, Eun Cho
Vineel Chakradhar, Vivek Dasari, Weihua James Li

Each team will have 15-20 minutes to present, with a bit more time for the 3-person team and a bit less for the 1-person team. I will also use a bit of left-over time (if any) for some closing thoughts on the topics of the class.

Remember that presenting early gives you more time to revise your report based on feedback, so don't worry too much about the "inequity" of different presentation days. Please turn in your final report as the latest "homework assignment" on the web site. Only one person in a team needs to submit the project report.

Announced on 02 December 2014  10:04  a.m. by Peter Szolovits

Subject evaluations

Please provide us feedback on the class by completing a subject evaluation, at
http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/
We are particularly interested in suggestions about how to improve choice of topics and/or presentation, not just a numerical score. Thank you. --Pete Sz.

Announced on 01 December 2014  1:56  p.m. by Peter Szolovits

Year in Review from AMIA

I just returned from the AMIA Annual Symposium, where there is a tradition of a presentation that identifies the most interesting or impactful research papers of the past year. This year's review was done by Bill Hersh and Joan Ash of Oregon Health & Science University, and they have posted their slides at
http://skynet.ohsu.edu/~hersh/yearinreview2014.pdf
The URL of their comprehensive list of pointers should be
http://skynet.ohsu.edu/~hersh/yearinreview2014.html
(It's mis-typed on the first slide.)

If you are interested in getting a current overview of the hot topics and interesting advances in the field, you might want to look through these.
--Peter Szolovits

Announced on 19 November 2014  6:26  p.m. by Peter Szolovits

Posting of papers to read for Oct 30

Sorry for the late notice, but I just posted two short papers relevant to Dr. Mandl's talk tomorrow, Oct 30. Please read them before his presentation.

Announced on 29 October 2014  6:50  p.m. by Peter Szolovits