CISC 844, Computational Biomedicine -- In the Time of CoVID19, Spring 2020: Schedule (Even more Tentative than before)

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Date Topic Reading Speaker(s) Notes
Feb 11 Introduction + Administrivia None. Handouts: Some online; Some will be distributed. Prof. Shatkay Class Notes 1
Feb 13 Intro to Machine Learning Methods, 1 Parts of Ch. 18: Russell and Norvig. (HO) Prof. Shatkay  
Feb 18 Guest Lecture:
On DNA, RNA, Genes and Proteins in Practice
Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists by Larry Hunter
Uniqueness of Medical Data Mining by Cios and Moore
Guest Lecturer: Prof. Carl Schmidt (Dept. of Animal and Food Sciences)  
Feb 20 Intro to Machine Learning Methods, 2 Parts of Ch. 6: Duda & Hart. (HO) Prof. Shatkay  
Feb 25 Introductory Odds and Ends   Prof. Shatkay  
Feb 27 On Talks and Seminar Your Favorite Topic + HO2 All  
Mar 3 Mixture Models and Probabilistic Clustering: AutoClass
AutoClass: A Bayesian Classification System. Cheeseman et al., 1988.
Helpful Reference: Bayesian classification (AutoClass): Theory and Results. by Cheeseman & Stutz
Michael  
Still on Mar 3, 3:30PM
Ewing 336
Guest Lecture:
Patient-specific modeling for virtual treatment planning in pediatric cardiology
Talk Abstract and Bio
Prof. Alison Marsden, Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Lab, Stanford  
Mar 5 Gene Expression Clusters: Clinical Implications Clustering Cancer Gene Expression Data: A Comparative Study by de Souto et al.
Helpful References: Molecular Classification of Cancer... by Golub, Slonim, Tamayo et al. , Science, 1999
Getting Started with Gene Expression Microarray Analysis Slonim & Yanai
Guna  
Mar 10 Clinical Data Clustering and Subtyping (1): Autism Spectrum Disorders Comorbidity Clusters in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Electronic Health Record Time-Series Analysis by Doshi-Velez, Ge & Kohane, Pediatrics, 2014
Secondary Papers: Using Cluster Ensemble and Validation to Identify Subtypes of Pervasive Developmental Disorders by Shen et al. , AMIA, 2007
A Cluster Analysis of Challenging Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorder by Stevens et al , ICMLA, 2017.
Hamed  
Mar 12 - Mar 25 COVID19 Induced Spring Break - No Classes      
Mar 31 Classifiers: Networks and Convolutional NN. Learning Algorithms for Classification: A Comparison of Handwritten Digit Recognition (1995). LeCun et al.
Secondary paper: Dermatologist-level Classification of Skin Cancer with Deep Neural Networks. Esteva et al. Nature, 2017.
Mayara  
Apr 2 More Clinical Applications of Networks and Convolutional NN. A Machine Learning Based Opioid Overdose Prediction Using Electronic Health Records. Dong, Rashidian et al.
Helpful References: Predicting opioid dependence from electronic health records with machine learning Ellis, Wang et al.
Mauricio  
Apr 7 Applications of vital signal and sequence analysis Rhythmic Sonic Feedback for Speed Skating by Real-Time Movement Synchronization by Godbout & Boyd
Secondary paper: Clustering Longitudinal Clinical Marker Trajectories from Electronic Health Data... by Schulam et al., AAAI, 2015
Helpful References: Audio Visual Synchronization of Rhythm by Godbout & Boyd
Subtyping: What It Is and Its Role in Precision Medicine by Saria and Goldberg, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2015
Using Unsupervised Learning to Determine Risk Level for Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction by Ma et al., BIBM, 2014
Jaysheel  
Apr 9 Guest Lecture:
Introduction to the Clinical Time Series Data Analysis
Making Sense of the ECG (Ch 1) by Houghton & Gray (Handout)
Dr. John Zaleski, Chief Analytics Officer, Bernoulli Health  
Apr 14 Introduction to Support Vector Machines. A Primer on Kernel Methods. Vert, Tsuda, Scholkopf
Helpful References: A Tutorial on Support Vector Machines for Pattern Recognition Burges
A Gentle Introduction to Support Vector Machines in Biomedicine by Statnikov et al.
Mina  
Apr 16 Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models: Hidden Markov Models and Bayesian Networks A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and Selected Applications in Speech Recognition. Rabiner
Handouts: S. Russel & P. Norvig, AI a Modern Approach, Ch 14.1-14.4 +
(optional) F. Jenssen, Introduction to Bayesian Netwroks
Helpful References:
An Introduction to Hidden Markov Models by Juang & Rabiner
Prof. Shatkay Class Notes 2
Apr 21 Cardiovascular Signal Clustering Clustering and Sybmbolic Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals... by Syed, Guttag & Stultz
Helpful References: Making Sense of the ECG (Ch 1) by Houghton & Gray (Handout)
A Framework for the Analysis of Acoustical Cardiac Signals by Syed et al.
Approximate Queries and Representations for Large Data Sequences Shatkay and Zdonik, ICDE, 1996.
Jaysheel Project Proposals Due
Apr 23 Cardio Signal Classification: Heartbeat and ECG Categorization Identifying Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients.... Rahman et al, BIBM, 2014.
Secondary paper: Time Series Classification With Support Vector Machines Kampouraki et al
Helpful References: Making Sense of the ECG (Ch 1) by Houghton & Gray (Handout)
ECG Beat Classification by Using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Random Forest... Emanet
Hamed  
Apr 28 : Date/Hour may change Protein Subcellular Location Prediction MultiLoc: Prediction of Protein Subcellular Localization Using.... Hoeglund et al
Secondary, Basis paper: Predicting Sub cellular Localization of Proteins based on their...Emanuelsson, et al
Helpful References: A Knowledge Base for Predicting Protein Localization..., 1992. Nakai & Kanehisa. (HO7)
Better Prediction of Protein Cellular Localization Sites with the K Nearest.... Horton & Nakai
Prediction of Protein Subcellular Locations by Support Vector Machines Using Compositions of Amino Acids and Amino Acid Pairs Park & Kanehisa
Mayara  
Apr 30 : Date/Hour may change Guest Lecture:
Introduction to the Electronic Health Records
Dr. Claudine Jurkovitz, MD, MPH, Director of Clinical Research, Value Institute, Christiana Care.    
May 5 Markov Models Applications: Post-operation Complications Modeling the Temporal Evolution of Postoperative Complications. Feld et al. AMIA, 2016
Helpful References: Markov Models in Medical Decision Making: A Practical Guide. Sonnenberg & Beck, Medical Decision Making, 1993
Mauricio  
May 7 HMM Applications: Prostate Cancer Detection Prostate Cancer: Improved Detection by Temporal Analysis of Radio-Frequency Ultrasound... Nahlawi et al , MICCAI, 2016
Helpful References: Stochastic Modeling of Temporal Enhanced Ultrasound: Impact of Temporal Properties. Nahlawi et al , IEEE Trans. BioMed Eng, 2017
Augmenting Detection of Prostate Cancer in Transrectal Ultrasound Images Moradi et al IEEE Trans. BioMed Eng, 2009
Mina  
May 12 Clinical Applications of Bayesian Networks The design and evaluation of a Bayesian system for detecting and characterizing outbreaks of influenza by N. Millet et al., OJPHI, 2019
Tumour-specific Causal Inference Discovers Distinct Disease Mechanisms Underlying Cancer Subtypes by Y. Xue, G.Cooper et al., Nature Research Scientific Reports, 2019
Michael  
May 14 Biomedical Text Mining and Language Models Mining the Biomedical Literature, Ch. 1. Shatkay & Craven (2012). (HO)
Frontiers of Biomedical Text Mining: Current Progress Zweignebaum et al.
Optional Reading: Text as Data: Using Text-Based Features for Proteins Representation and for Computational Prediction of their Characteristics. Shatkay, Brady & Wong.
Extracting Information from Textual Documents in the Electronic Health Record... Meystre et al. 2008
Co-occurrence of Medical Conditions: Exposing Patterns through Probabilistic Topic Modeling... by M. Bhattacharya et al. , 2018.
Helpful References: Finding Themes in Medline Documents:... , Shatkay and Wilbur, 2000
Introduction to Probabilistic Topic Models. by D. Blei, CACM, 2012
SherLoc: high-accuracy prediction of protein subcellular localization by integrating text and... by Shatkay, Hoeglund et al , 2007
Constructing Biological Knowledge Bases by Extracting Information from Text, by M. Craven & J. Kumlien, 1999
Prof. Shatkay  
Project Reports Due May 21 by Midnight.    



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