Talk Title: Learning to summarize medical evidence Talk Summary: Decisions about patient care should be supported by data. But most clinical evidence --- from notes in electronic health records to published reports of clinical trials --- is stored as unstructured text and so not readily accessible. The body of such unstructured evidence is already vast […]
Talk Title: Computational Approaches for Genomics-Guided Pediatric Precision Cancer Medicine Talk Summary: My talk will focus on the methods and computational pipelines we are utilizing in molecular characterization of pediatric cancer patients with rare, relapsed or treatment refractory cancers. I will illustrate these approaches with specific case examples and a summary of our progress to-date.
Talk Title: Inference of field cancerization using stochastic models to improve cancer control Talk Summary: Early cancer detection strategies focus on screening individuals to find obvious precancerous lesions and removing them when possible. However, screening programs often suffer from both under-diagnosis due to inadequate screening, and over-diagnosis due to ineffective patient stratification in surveillance protocols. […]