How is Big Data being used in Medicine?

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Monday, 21 September 2015
09:21 - 09:21
Duration: 2 mins
Publication date: 16 Oct 2015
Location: NA, Balliol College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Part of event Machine Learning in Healthcare

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We asked the contributors of the Machine Learning in Healthcare seminar how Big Data is being used in medicine. For more information you can find the presentations from the event here: https://tv.theiet.org/?event=3534

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Prof. Chris Holmes

University of Oxford, Professor of Biostatistics

I moved to Oxford from Imperial College London in February 2004. At Imperial College I studied for my doctorate in Bayesian statistics, investigating novel nonlinear pattern recognition methods. This was followed by a post-doctoral position and then a lectureship at Imperial. Previous to this I worked in industry for a number of years researching in scientific computing, developing techniques for real-time pattern recognition models in defence and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems. My current research is focussed on applications and statistical methods development in the genomic sciences and genetic epidemiology. I hold a programme leaders grant in Statistical Genomics from the Medical Research Council.
Prof. Christopher Williams

University of Edinburgh, Research Supervisor
Prof. Bart Vanrumste

KU Leuven

He received a Master in Electrical Engineering (ir.) from the Ghent University, Belgium in 1994. In 1998 he received a Master in Biomedical Engineering also from Ghent University. In 2001 he received a Ph.D. in Engineering (dr.) from the same institute. His Ph.D. work on ‘EEG Dipole Source Analysis in a Realistic Head Model’ was supervised by Prof. Ignace Lemahieu and Prof. Paul Boon. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow from 2001 until 2003 at the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of the University Of Canterbury, New Zealand under supervision of Prof. Philip J Bones and Prof. Richard D. Jones.From 2003 until 2005 he was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven. His supervisor was Prof. Sabine Van Huffel. In 2005 he was appointed Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at the “Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen” in Geel and the “Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg”, which have been integrated in the Faculty of Engineering Technology of KU Leuven. Bart Vanrumste currently teaches courses on Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing and Medical Instrumentation. He is head of the Advanced Integrated Sensing Lab (AdvISe), associated member of the ESAT-STADIUS division and Principle Investigator of iMinds Future Health Department. His research interests is Decision Support in Healthcare in general and Ambient Assisted Living in particular. His current research activities focus among other on multimodal sensor integration for monitoring of older persons and patients with chronic illnesses at their homes. Bart Vanrumste has (co-)authored over 90 peer reviewed papers in international journals or conference proceedings. He is an active reviewer for many Biomedical Technology and Ambient Assisted Living journals. He also has been a reviewer for the IWT and STW.He was awarded for his contribution on the 9th World Congress of the International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography, the10th World Congress of the International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography and 4th International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism.Since 2013 he is chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Benelux Chapter and member of the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism.
prof. Niels Peek

University of Manchester

I am a Reader in Health Informatics at the MRC Health eResearch Centre for North England (www.herc.ac.uk), University of Manchester.My background is in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. After completing my studies I received a PhD in Computer Science from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and subsequently worked at the Department of Medical Informatics of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Currently I have co-authored over 100 scientific publications in health informatics, artificial intelligence, and epidemiology.My research focuses on improving quality and safety of healthcare using methods and tools from the fields of informatics, statistics and artificial intelligence. From 2003 to 2014, I have led a large initiative on quality improvement in cardiac rehabilitation in the Netherlands (called CARDSS), which involved a collaboration between more than 30 hospitals, the Dutch patients’ organization for cardiovascular disorders, a large number of professional societies, several academic research groups and three healthcare IT companies.I have also co-organized international workshops on intelligent data analysis in biomedicine in 2005, 2006, and 2011. Currently I am chairing the working group on Data Mining and Big Data Analytics from the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), and the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) board, which organizes an international conference on that topic every two years.
Dr James Hensman

University of Sheffield
Prof. Suchi Saria

John Hopkins University, Computer Science Department, Assistant Professor
prof. Niels Peek

University of Manchester

I am a Reader in Health Informatics at the MRC Health eResearch Centre for North England (www.herc.ac.uk), University of Manchester.My background is in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. After completing my studies I received a PhD in Computer Science from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and subsequently worked at the Department of Medical Informatics of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Currently I have co-authored over 100 scientific publications in health informatics, artificial intelligence, and epidemiology.My research focuses on improving quality and safety of healthcare using methods and tools from the fields of informatics, statistics and artificial intelligence. From 2003 to 2014, I have led a large initiative on quality improvement in cardiac rehabilitation in the Netherlands (called CARDSS), which involved a collaboration between more than 30 hospitals, the Dutch patients’ organization for cardiovascular disorders, a large number of professional societies, several academic research groups and three healthcare IT companies.I have also co-organized international workshops on intelligent data analysis in biomedicine in 2005, 2006, and 2011. Currently I am chairing the working group on Data Mining and Big Data Analytics from the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), and the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) board, which organizes an international conference on that topic every two years.

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