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Prescott JW, Zhang D, Wang JZ, Mayr NA, Yuh WT, Saltz J, Gurcan M. Temporal analysis of tumor heterogeneity and volume for cervical cancer treatment outcome prediction: preliminary evaluation. J Digit Imaging 2010; 23:342-57. [PMID: 19172357 PMCID: PMC3046647 DOI: 10.1007/s10278-009-9179-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2008] [Revised: 10/28/2008] [Accepted: 01/04/2009] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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In this paper, we present a method of quantifying the heterogeneity of cervical cancer tumors for use in radiation treatment outcome prediction. Features based on the distribution of masked wavelet decomposition coefficients in the tumor region of interest (ROI) of temporal dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) studies were used along with the imaged tumor volume to assess the response of the tumors to treatment. The wavelet decomposition combined with ROI masking was used to extract local intensity variations in the tumor. The developed method was tested on a data set consisting of 23 patients with advanced cervical cancer who underwent radiation therapy; 18 of these patients had local control of the tumor, and five had local recurrence. Each patient participated in two DCE-MRI studies: one prior to treatment and another early into treatment (2-4 weeks). An outcome of local control or local recurrence of the tumor was assigned to each patient based on a posttherapy follow-up at least 2 years after the end of treatment. Three different supervised classifiers were trained on combinational subsets of the full wavelet and volume feature set. The best-performing linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and support vector machine (SVM) classifiers each had mean prediction accuracies of 95.7%, with the LDA classifier being more sensitive (100% vs. 80%) and the SVM classifier being more specific (100% vs. 94.4%) in those cases. The K-nearest neighbor classifier performed the best out of all three classifiers, having multiple feature sets that were used to achieve 100% prediction accuracy. The use of distribution measures of the masked wavelet coefficients as features resulted in much better predictive performance than those of previous approaches based on tumor intensity values and their distributions or tumor volume alone.
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- Jeffrey W. Prescott
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, 333 W. 10th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, 300 W. 10th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, 300 W. 10th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, 300 W. 10th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University Medical Center, 607 Means Hall, 1654 Upham Dr., Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, 333 W. 10th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, 333 W. 10th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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Cooper L, Saltz J, Machiraju R, Huang K. Two-Point Correlation as a Feature for Histology Images: Feature Space Structure and Correlation Updating. Conf Comput Vis Pattern Recognit Workshops 2010:79-86. [PMID: 24154808 DOI: 10.1109/cvprw.2010.5543453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The segmentation of tissues in whole-slide histology images is a necessary step for the morphological analyses of tissues and cellular structures. Previous works have demonstrated the potential of two-point correlation functions (TPCF) as features for tissue segmentation, however the feature space is not yet well understood and computational methods are lacking. This paper illustrates several fundamental aspects of TPCF feature space and contributes a fast algorithm for deterministic feature computation. Despite the high-dimensionality of TPCF feature space, the features corresponding to different tissues are shown to be characterized by low-dimensional manifolds. The relationship between TPCF and the familiar co-occurrence matrix is highlighted, and it is shown that costly cross correlations are not necessary to achieve an accurate segmentation. For computation, the method of correlation updating, based on the linearity of the correlation operator, is proposed and shown to achieve up to a 67X speedup over frequency domain computation methods. Segmentation results are demonstrated on multiple tissues and natural texture images.
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- Lee Cooper
- Center for Comprehensive Informatics Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322
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Fitzgerald TJ, Bishop-Jodoin M, Cicchetti MG, Hanusik R, Kessel S, Laurie F, McCarten KM, Moni J, Pieters RS, Rosen N, Ulin K, Urie M, Chauvenet AR, Constine LS, Deye J, Vikram B, Friedman D, Marcus RB, Mendenhall NP, Williams JL, Purdy J, Saltz J, Schwartz CL, White KS, Wolden S. Quality of radiotherapy reporting in randomized controlled trials of Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: in regard to Bekelman and Yahalom (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2009;73:492-498). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010; 77:315-6. [PMID: 20394859 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.12.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2009] [Accepted: 12/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Proprietary approaches for representing annotations and image markup are serious barriers for researchers to share image data and knowledge. The Annotation and Image Markup (AIM) project is developing a standard based information model for image annotation and markup in health care and clinical trial environments. The complex hierarchical structures of AIM data model pose new challenges for managing such data in terms of performance and support of complex queries. In this paper, we present our work on managing AIM data through a native XML approach, and supporting complex image and annotation queries through native extension of XQuery language. Through integration with xService, AIM databases can now be conveniently shared through caGrid.
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- Fusheng Wang
- Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Tirado-Ramos A, Saltz J, Lechowicz MJ. HIV-K: an integrative knowledge base for semantic integration of AIDS-related malignancy data and treatment outcomes. Stud Health Technol Inform 2010; 159:239-243. [PMID: 20543443 PMCID: PMC3157699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Technological innovations such as web services and collaborative Grid platforms like caGrid can create opportunities to converge the worlds of health care and clinical research, by facilitating access and integration of HIV-related malignancy clinical and outcomes data at more sophisticated, semantic levels. At the same time, large numbers of randomized clinical trial and outcomes data on AIDS-defining malignancies (ADM) and non-AIDS-defining malignancies (nADM) have been produced during the last few years. There is still much work to do, though, on obtaining clear conclusions from the integration of such information. This is a white paper on work in progress from Emory University's HIV/AIDS related malignancy data integrative knowledge base project (HIV-K). We are working to increase the understanding of available clinical trial data and outcomes of ADM such as lymphoma, as well as nADM such as anal cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, or liver cancer. Our hypothesis is that, by creating prototypes of tools for semantics-enabled integrative knowledge bases for HIV/AIDS-related malignancy data, we will facilitate the identification of patterns and potential new overall evidence, as well as the linking of integrated data and results to registries of interest.
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- A Tirado-Ramos
- Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
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Neuroblastoma is one of the most common childhood cancers. We are developing an image analysis system to assist pathologists in their prognosis. Since this system operates on relatively large-scale images and requires sophisticated algorithms, computerised analysis takes a long time to execute. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to benefit from high memory bandwidth and strong floating-point capabilities of graphics processing units. The proposed approach achieves a promising classification accuracy of 99.4% and an execution performance with a gain factor up to 45 times compared to hand-optimised C++ code running on the CPU.
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- Antonio Ruiz
- Computer Architecture Department, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
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Kurc T, Hastings S, Kumar V, Langella S, Sharma A, Pan T, Oster S, Ervin D, Permar J, Narayanan S, Gil Y, Deelman E, Hall M, Saltz J. HPC AND GRID COMPUTING FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH. Int J High Perform Comput Appl 2009; 23:252. [PMID: 20107625 PMCID: PMC2811341 DOI: 10.1177/1094342009106192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Integrative biomedical research projects query, analyze, and integrate many different data types and make use of datasets obtained from measurements or simulations of structure and function at multiple biological scales. With the increasing availability of high-throughput and high-resolution instruments, the integrative biomedical research imposes many challenging requirements on software middleware systems. In this paper, we look at some of these requirements using example research pattern templates. We then discuss how middleware systems, which incorporate Grid and high-performance computing, could be employed to address the requirements.
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- Tahsin Kurc
- CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATICS, EMORY UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA 30322, USA
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Erdal S, Catalyurek UV, Payne PRO, Saltz J, Kamal J, Gurcan MN. A knowledge-anchored integrative image search and retrieval system. J Digit Imaging 2009; 22:166-82. [PMID: 18040742 PMCID: PMC3043680 DOI: 10.1007/s10278-007-9086-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2007] [Revised: 10/03/2007] [Accepted: 10/17/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Clinical data that may be used in a secondary capacity to support research activities are regularly stored in three significantly different formats: (1) structured, codified data elements; (2) semi-structured or unstructured narrative text; and (3) multi-modal images. In this manuscript, we will describe the design of a computational system that is intended to support the ontology-anchored query and integration of such data types from multiple source systems. Additional features of the described system include (1) the use of Grid services-based electronic data interchange models to enable the use of our system in multi-site settings and (2) the use of a software framework intended to address both potential security and patient confidentiality concerns that arise when transmitting or otherwise manipulating potentially privileged personal health information. We will frame our discussion within the specific experimental context of the concept-oriented query and integration of correlated structured data, narrative text, and images for cancer research.
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- Selnur Erdal
- Information Warehouse, The Ohio State University Medical Center, 640 Ackerman Road, P.O. Box 183111, Columbus, OH 43218, USA.
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Sharma A, Pan T, Cambazoglu BB, Gurcan M, Kurc T, Saltz J. VirtualPACS--a federating gateway to access remote image data resources over the grid. J Digit Imaging 2009; 22:1-10. [PMID: 17876669 PMCID: PMC3043676 DOI: 10.1007/s10278-007-9074-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2007] [Revised: 08/05/2007] [Accepted: 08/23/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Collaborations in biomedical research and clinical studies require that data, software, and computational resources be shared between geographically distant institutions. In radiology, there is a related issue of sharing remote DICOM data over the Internet. This paper focuses on the problem of federating multiple image data resources such that clients can interact with them as if they are stored in a centralized PACS. We present a toolkit, called VirtualPACS, to support this functionality. Using the toolkit, users can perform standard DICOM operations (query, retrieve, and submit) across distributed image databases. The key features of the toolkit are: (1) VirtualPACS makes it easy to use existing DICOM client applications for data access; (2) it can easily be incorporated into an imaging workflow as a DICOM source; (3) using VirtualPACS, heterogeneous collections of DICOM sources are exposed to clients through a uniform interface and common data model; and (4) DICOM image databases without DICOM messaging can be accessed.
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- Ashish Sharma
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, 3190 Graves Hall, 333 W 10th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Mosaliganti K, Janoos F, Irfanoglu O, Ridgway R, Machiraju R, Huang K, Saltz J, Leone G, Ostrowski M. Tensor classification of N-point correlation function features for histology tissue segmentation. Med Image Anal 2009; 13:156-66. [PMID: 18762444 PMCID: PMC4664199 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2008.06.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2007] [Revised: 04/24/2008] [Accepted: 06/23/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this paper, we utilize the N-point correlation functions (N-pcfs) to construct an appropriate feature space for achieving tissue segmentation in histology-stained microscopic images. The N-pcfs estimate microstructural constituent packing densities and their spatial distribution in a tissue sample. We represent the multi-phase properties estimated by the N-pcfs in a tensor structure. Using a variant of higher-order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) algorithm, we realize a robust classifier that provides a multi-linear description of the tensor feature space. Validated results of the segmentation are presented in a case-study that focuses on understanding the genetic phenotyping differences in mouse placentae.
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- Kishore Mosaliganti
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH-43210, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH-43210, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH-43210, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH-43210, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH-43210, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH-43210, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH-43210, USA
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- Department of Human Cancer Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH-43210, USA
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- Department of Human Cancer Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH-43210, USA
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Kumar VS, Kurc T, Saltz J, Abdulla G, Kohn SR, Matarazzo C. Architectural Implications for Spatial Object Association Algorithms. Proc IPDPS (Conf) 2009:1-12. [PMID: 25692244 PMCID: PMC4324583 DOI: 10.1109/ipdps.2009.5161078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Spatial object association, also referred to as crossmatch of spatial datasets, is the problem of identifying and comparing objects in two or more datasets based on their positions in a common spatial coordinate system. In this work, we evaluate two crossmatch algorithms that are used for astronomical sky surveys, on the following database system architecture configurations: (1) Netezza Performance Server®, a parallel database system with active disk style processing capabilities, (2) MySQL Cluster, a high-throughput network database system, and (3) a hybrid configuration consisting of a collection of independent database system instances with data replication support. Our evaluation provides insights about how architectural characteristics of these systems affect the performance of the spatial crossmatch algorithms. We conducted our study using real use-case scenarios borrowed from a large-scale astronomy application known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).
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- Vijay S Kumar
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
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- Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Emory University
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- Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Emory University
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- Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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- Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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- Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Kumar VS, Sadayappan P, Mehta G, Vahi K, Deelman E, Ratnakar V, Kim J, Gil Y, Hall M, Kurc T, Saltz J. An Integrated Framework for Parameter-based Optimization of Scientific Workflows. Proc Int Symp High Perform Distrib Comput 2009:177-186. [PMID: 22068617 DOI: 10.1145/1551609.1551638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Data analysis processes in scientific applications can be expressed as coarse-grain workflows of complex data processing operations with data flow dependencies between them. Performance optimization of these workflows can be viewed as a search for a set of optimal values in a multi-dimensional parameter space. While some performance parameters such as grouping of workflow components and their mapping to machines do not a ect the accuracy of the output, others may dictate trading the output quality of individual components (and of the whole workflow) for performance. This paper describes an integrated framework which is capable of supporting performance optimizations along multiple dimensions of the parameter space. Using two real-world applications in the spatial data analysis domain, we present an experimental evaluation of the proposed framework.
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This paper is concerned with the efficient computation of materialization in a knowledge base with a large ABox. We present a framework for performing this task on a shared-nothing parallel machine. The framework partitions TBox and ABox axioms using a min-min strategy. It utilizes an existing system, like SwiftOWLIM, to perform local inference computations and coordinates exchange of relevant information between processors. Our approach is able to exploit parallelism in the axioms of the TBox to achieve speedup in a cluster. However, this approach is limited by the complexity of the TBox. We present an experimental evaluation of the framework using datasets from the Lehigh University Benchmark (LUBM).
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- Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322
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- Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322
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Mosaliganti K, Pan T, Ridgway R, Sharp R, Cooper L, Gulacy A, Sharma A, Irfanoglu O, Machiraju R, Kurc T, de Bruin A, Wenzel P, Leone G, Saltz J, Huang K. An imaging workflow for characterizing phenotypical change in large histological mouse model datasets. J Biomed Inform 2008; 41:863-73. [PMID: 18502696 PMCID: PMC2657595 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2007] [Revised: 03/10/2008] [Accepted: 03/16/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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MOTIVATION This paper presents a workflow designed to quantitatively characterize the 3D structural attributes of macroscopic tissue specimens acquired at a micron level resolution using light microscopy. The specific application is a study of the morphological change in a mouse placenta induced by knocking out the retinoblastoma gene. RESULT This workflow includes four major components: (i) serial section image acquisition, (ii) image preprocessing, (iii) image analysis involving 2D pair-wise registration, 2D segmentation and 3D reconstruction, and (iv) visualization and quantification of phenotyping parameters. Several new algorithms have been developed within each workflow component. The results confirm the hypotheses that (i) the volume of labyrinth tissue decreases in mutant mice with the retinoblastoma (Rb) gene knockout and (ii) there is more interdigitation at the surface between the labyrinth and spongiotrophoblast tissues in mutant placenta. Additional confidence stem from agreement in the 3D visualization and the quantitative results generated. AVAILABILITY The source code is available upon request.
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- Kishore Mosaliganti
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Human Cancer Genetics, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Human Cancer Genetics, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Human Cancer Genetics, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
- The Biomedical Informatics Shared Resources, The Ohio State University
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Saltz J, Kurc T, Hastings S, Langella S, Oster S, Ervin D, Sharma A, Pan T, Gurcan M, Permar J, Ferreira R, Payne P, Catalyurek U, Caserta E, Leone G, Ostrowski MC, Madduri R, Foster I, Madhavan S, Buetow KH, Shanbhag K, Siegel E. e-Science, caGrid, and Translational Biomedical Research. Computer (Long Beach Calif) 2008; 41:58-66. [PMID: 21311723 PMCID: PMC3035203 DOI: 10.1109/mc.2008.459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Translational research projects target a wide variety of diseases, test many different kinds of biomedical hypotheses, and employ a large assortment of experimental methodologies. Diverse data, complex execution environments, and demanding security and reliability requirements make the implementation of these projects extremely challenging and require novel e-Science technologies.
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- Joel Saltz
- Center for Comprehensive Informatics at Emory University
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- Center for Comprehensive Informatics at Emory University
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- Software Research Institute at the Ohio State University
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- Software Research Institute at the Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Ohio State University
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- Software Research Institute at the Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Ohio State University
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Ohio State University
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- Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics at the Ohio State University
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Ohio State University
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- Argonne National Laboratory and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago
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- Life Science Informatics at the National Cancer Institute. She conducted her PhD research at the Uniformed Services University for the health sciences and received an MS in information systems management at the University of Maryland
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- Bioinformatics and information technology and the director of the NCI Center for Bioinformatics at the National Cancer Institute
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- Core infrastructure engineering, NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at the National Cancer Institute
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Mosaliganti K, Cooper L, Sharp R, Machiraju R, Leone G, Huang K, Saltz J. Reconstruction of cellular biological structures from optical microscopy data. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph 2008; 14:863-876. [PMID: 18467760 DOI: 10.1109/tvcg.2008.30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Developments in optical microscopy imaging have generated large high-resolution data sets that have spurred medical researchers to conduct investigations into mechanisms of disease, including cancer at cellular and subcellular levels. The work reported here demonstrates that a suitable methodology can be conceived that isolates modality-dependent effects from the larger segmentation task and that 3D reconstructions can be cognizant of shapes as evident in the available 2D planar images. In the current realization, a method based on active geodesic contours is first deployed to counter the ambiguity that exists in separating overlapping cells on the image plane. Later, another segmentation effort based on a variant of Voronoi tessellations improves the delineation of the cell boundaries using a Bayesian formulation. In the next stage, the cells are interpolated across the third dimension thereby mitigating the poor structural correlation that exists in that dimension. We deploy our methods on three separate data sets obtained from light, confocal, and phase-contrast microscopy and validate the results appropriately.
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- Kishore Mosaliganti
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Gurcan MN, Pan T, Shimada H, Saltz J. Image analysis for neuroblastoma classification: segmentation of cell nuclei. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2008; 2006:4844-7. [PMID: 17947119 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2006.260837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer of the nervous system. Current prognostic classification of this disease partly relies on morphological characteristics of the cells from H&E-stained images. In this work, an automated cell nuclei segmentation method is developed. This method employs morphological top-hat by reconstruction algorithm coupled with hysteresis thresholding to both detect and segment the cell nuclei. Accuracy of the automated cell nuclei segmentation algorithm is measured by comparing its outputs to manual segmentation. The average segmentation accuracy is 90.24+/-5.14%
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- Metin N Gurcan
- Biomed. Informatics Dept., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Saltz J, Oster S, Hastings S, Langella S, Ferreira R, Permar J, Sharma A, Ervin D, Pan T, Catalyurek U, Kurc T. Translational Research Design Templates, Grid Computing, and HPC. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 2008:1-15. [PMID: 21311740 DOI: 10.1109/ipdps.2008.4536089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Design templates that involve discovery, analysis, and integration of information resources commonly occur in many scientific research projects. In this paper we present examples of design templates from the biomedical translational research domain and discuss the requirements imposed on Grid middleware infrastructures by them. Using caGrid, which is a Grid middleware system based on the model driven architecture (MDA) and the service oriented architecture (SOA) paradigms, as a starting point, we discuss architecture directions for MDA and SOA based systems like caGrid to support common design templates.
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Teodoro G, Tavares T, Ferreira R, Kurc T, Meira W, Guedes D, Pan T, Saltz J. A Run-time System for Efficient Execution of Scientific Workflows on Distributed Environments. Int J Parallel Program 2008; 36:250-266. [PMID: 22582009 PMCID: PMC3348585 DOI: 10.1007/s10766-007-0068-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Scientific workflow systems have been introduced in response to the demand of researchers from several domains of science who need to process and analyze increasingly larger datasets. The design of these systems is largely based on the observation that data analysis applications can be composed as pipelines or networks of computations on data. In this work, we present a runtime support system that is designed to facilitate this type of computation in distributed computing environments. Our system is optimized for data-intensive workflows, in which efficient management and retrieval of data, coordination of data processing and data movement, and check-pointing of intermediate results are critical and challenging issues. Experimental evaluation of our system shows that linear speedups can be achieved for sophisticated applications, which are implemented as a network of multiple data processing components.
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- George Teodoro
- Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270-010 Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil, tel +55(31)3499-5860 - fax +55(31)3499-5858
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- Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270-010 Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil, tel +55(31)3499-5860 - fax +55(31)3499-5858
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- Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270-010 Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil, tel +55(31)3499-5860 - fax +55(31)3499-5858
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210 - USA, tel +1(614)292-4778 - fax +1(614)688-6600
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- Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270-010 Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil, tel +55(31)3499-5860 - fax +55(31)3499-5858
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- Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270-010 Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil, tel +55(31)3499-5860 - fax +55(31)3499-5858
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210 - USA, tel +1(614)292-4778 - fax +1(614)688-6600
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210 - USA, tel +1(614)292-4778 - fax +1(614)688-6600
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Oster S, Langella S, Hastings S, Ervin D, Madduri R, Phillips J, Kurc T, Siebenlist F, Covitz P, Shanbhag K, Foster I, Saltz J. caGrid 1.0: an enterprise Grid infrastructure for biomedical research. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008; 15:138-49. [PMID: 18096909 PMCID: PMC2274794 DOI: 10.1197/jamia.m2522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2007] [Accepted: 12/07/2007] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To develop software infrastructure that will provide support for discovery, characterization, integrated access, and management of diverse and disparate collections of information sources, analysis methods, and applications in biomedical research. DESIGN An enterprise Grid software infrastructure, called caGrid version 1.0 (caGrid 1.0), has been developed as the core Grid architecture of the NCI-sponsored cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) program. It is designed to support a wide range of use cases in basic, translational, and clinical research, including 1) discovery, 2) integrated and large-scale data analysis, and 3) coordinated study. MEASUREMENTS The caGrid is built as a Grid software infrastructure and leverages Grid computing technologies and the Web Services Resource Framework standards. It provides a set of core services, toolkits for the development and deployment of new community provided services, and application programming interfaces for building client applications. RESULTS The caGrid 1.0 was released to the caBIG community in December 2006. It is built on open source components and caGrid source code is publicly and freely available under a liberal open source license. The core software, associated tools, and documentation can be downloaded from the following URL: https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid. CONCLUSIONS While caGrid 1.0 is designed to address use cases in cancer research, the requirements associated with discovery, analysis and integration of large scale data, and coordinated studies are common in other biomedical fields. In this respect, caGrid 1.0 is the realization of a framework that can benefit the entire biomedical community.
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- Scott Oster
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
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- National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics, Rockville, MD
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- Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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Sertel O, Kong J, Lozanski G, Arwa Shana'ah, Catalyurek U, Saltz J, Gurcan M. Texture classification using nonlinear color quantization: Application to histopathological image analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1109/icassp.2008.4517680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Langella S, Hastings S, Oster S, Pan T, Sharma A, Permar J, Ervin D, Cambazoglu BB, Kurc T, Saltz J. Sharing data and analytical resources securely in a biomedical research Grid environment. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008; 15:363-73. [PMID: 18308979 DOI: 10.1197/jamia.m2662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To develop a security infrastructure to support controlled and secure access to data and analytical resources in a biomedical research Grid environment, while facilitating resource sharing among collaborators. DESIGN A Grid security infrastructure, called Grid Authentication and Authorization with Reliably Distributed Services (GAARDS), is developed as a key architecture component of the NCI-funded cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG). The GAARDS is designed to support in a distributed environment 1) efficient provisioning and federation of user identities and credentials; 2) group-based access control support with which resource providers can enforce policies based on community accepted groups and local groups; and 3) management of a trust fabric so that policies can be enforced based on required levels of assurance. MEASUREMENTS GAARDS is implemented as a suite of Grid services and administrative tools. It provides three core services: Dorian for management and federation of user identities, Grid Trust Service for maintaining and provisioning a federated trust fabric within the Grid environment, and Grid Grouper for enforcing authorization policies based on both local and Grid-level groups. RESULTS The GAARDS infrastructure is available as a stand-alone system and as a component of the caGrid infrastructure. More information about GAARDS can be accessed at http://www.cagrid.org. CONCLUSIONS GAARDS provides a comprehensive system to address the security challenges associated with environments in which resources may be located at different sites, requests to access the resources may cross institutional boundaries, and user credentials are created, managed, revoked dynamically in a de-centralized manner.
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- Stephen Langella
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, 3184 Graves Hall, 333 West 10th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Saltz J, Hastings S, Langella S, Oster S, Kurc T, Payne P, Ferreira R, Plale B, Goble C, Ervin D, Sharma A, Pan T, Permar J, Brezany P, Siebenlist F, Madduri R, Foster I, Shanbhag K, Mead C, Chue Hong N. A roadmap for caGrid, an enterprise Grid architecture for biomedical research. Stud Health Technol Inform 2008; 138:224-237. [PMID: 18560123 PMCID: PMC3292259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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caGrid is a middleware system which combines the Grid computing, the service oriented architecture, and the model driven architecture paradigms to support development of interoperable data and analytical resources and federation of such resources in a Grid environment. The functionality provided by caGrid is an essential and integral component of the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) program. This program is established by the National Cancer Institute as a nationwide effort to develop enabling informatics technologies for collaborative, multi-institutional biomedical research with the overarching goal of accelerating translational cancer research. Although the main application domain for caGrid is cancer research, the infrastructure provides a generic framework that can be employed in other biomedical research and healthcare domains. The development of caGrid is an ongoing effort, adding new functionality and improvements based on feedback and use cases from the community. This paper provides an overview of potential future architecture and tooling directions and areas of improvement for caGrid and caGrid-like systems. This summary is based on discussions at a roadmap workshop held in February with participants from biomedical research, Grid computing, and high performance computing communities.
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- Joel Saltz
- Biomedical Informatics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Langella S, Oster S, Hastings S, Siebenlist F, Phillips J, Ervin D, Permar J, Kurc T, Saltz J. The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Security Infrastructure. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2007; 2007:433-437. [PMID: 18693873 PMCID: PMC2655893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2007] [Revised: 07/20/2007] [Accepted: 10/11/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Security is a high priority issue in medical domain, because many institutions performing biomedical research work with sensitive medical data regularly. This issue becomes more complicated, when it is desirable or needed to access and analyze data in a multi-institutional setting. In the NCI cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) program, several security issues were raised that existing security technologies could not address. Considering caBIG is envisioned to span a large number of cancer centers and investigator laboratories, these issues pose considerable challenge. In this paper we present these issues and the infrastructure, referred to as GAARDS, which has been developed to address them.
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- Stephen Langella
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Oster S, Langella S, Hastings S, Ervin D, Madduri R, Kurc T, Siebenlist F, Covitz P, Shanbhag K, Foster I, Saltz J. caGrid 1.0: a Grid enterprise architecture for cancer research. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2007; 2007:573-577. [PMID: 18693901 PMCID: PMC2655925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2007] [Revised: 07/19/2007] [Accepted: 10/11/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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caGrid is the core Grid architecture of the NCI-sponsored cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) program. The current release, caGrid version 1.0, is developed as the production Grid software infrastructure of caBIG. Based on feedback from adopters of the previous version (caGrid 0.5), it has been significantly enhanced with new features and improvements to existing components. This paper presents an overview of caGrid 1.0, its main components, and enhancements over caGrid 0.5.
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- Scott Oster
- Biomedical Informatics Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Gurcan MN, Kong J, Sertel O, Cambazoglu BB, Saltz J, Catalyurek U. Computerized pathological image analysis for neuroblastoma prognosis. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2007; 2007:304-308. [PMID: 18693847 PMCID: PMC2655895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2007] [Revised: 07/20/2007] [Accepted: 10/11/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We present a pathological image analysis system for the computer-aided prognosis of neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer. The image analysis system automatically classifies Schwannian stromal development of pathological tissues and determines the grade of differentiation. Due to the demanding computational cost of processing large digitized slides, the system was implemented on a cluster of computers with automated load balancing within a multi-resolution framework. In our experiments, the overall accuracies for stromal classification and the grade of differentiation were 96.6% and 95.3%, respectively. Additionally, the multi-resolution framework reduced the run time of the single resolution approach by 53% and 34% on average for stromal classification and grade of differentiation, respectively. For these two cases, parallelization on a 16-node cluster reduced the sequential run time by 92% and 88% on average. Accuracy and efficiency of these techniques are promising for the development a computer-assisted neuroblastoma prognosis system.
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Gurcan MN, Pan T, Sharma A, Kurc T, Oster S, Langella S, Hastings S, Siddiqui KM, Siegel EL, Saltz J. GridIMAGE: a novel use of grid computing to support interactive human and computer-assisted detection decision support. J Digit Imaging 2007; 20:160-71. [PMID: 17318701 PMCID: PMC1896264 DOI: 10.1007/s10278-007-9020-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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This paper describes a Grid-aware image reviewing system (GridIMAGE) that allows practitioners to (a) select images from multiple geographically distributed digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) servers, (b) send those images to a specified group of human readers and computer-assisted detection (CAD) algorithms, and (c) obtain and compare interpretations from human readers and CAD algorithms. The currently implemented system was developed using the National Cancer Institute caGrid infrastructure and is designed to support the identification of lung nodules on thoracic computed tomography. However, the infrastructure is general and can support any type of distributed review. caGrid data and analytical services are used to link DICOM image databases and CAD systems and to interact with human readers. Moreover, the service-oriented and distributed structure of the GridIMAGE framework enables a flexible system, which can be deployed in an institution (linking multiple DICOM servers and CAD algorithms) and in a Grid environment (linking the resources of collaborating research groups). GridIMAGE provides a framework that allows practitioners to obtain interpretations from one or more human readers or CAD algorithms. It also provides a mechanism to allow cooperative imaging groups to systematically perform image interpretation tasks associated with research protocols.
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- Metin N Gurcan
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, 3190 Graves Hall, 333 W. 10th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Mosaliganti K, Janoos F, Sharp R, Ridgway R, Machiraju R, Huang K, Wenzel P, deBruin A, Leone G, Saltz J. Detection and visualization of surface-pockets to enable phenotyping studies. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2007; 26:1283-90. [PMID: 17896599 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2007.903570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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In this paper, we propose a technique for detecting pockets on a surface-of-interest. A sequence of propagating fronts converging to the target surface is used as the basis for inspection. We compute a correspondence function between the initial and the target surface. This leads to a natural definition of the local feature size measured as the evolution distance between mapped points. Surface pockets are then extracted as salient clusters embedded in the feature space. The level-set initialization also determines the scale-space of the extracted pockets. Results are presented on a case-study in which the focus is to chronicle the phenotyping differences in genetically modified mouse placenta. Our results are validated based on manually verified ground-truth.
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- Kishore Mosaliganti
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Mosaliganti K, Jia G, Heverhagen J, Machiraju R, Saltz J, Knopp M. Preventing signal degradation during elastic matching of noisy DCE-MR eye images. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 9:832-9. [PMID: 17354968 DOI: 10.1007/11866565_102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Motion during the acquisition of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI can cause model-fitting errors requiring co-registration. Clinical implementations use a pharmacokinetic model to determine lesion parameters from the contrast passage. The input to the model is the time-intensity plot from a region of interest (ROI) covering the lesion extent. Motion correction meanwhile involves interpolation and smoothing operations thereby affecting the time-intensity plots. This paper explores the trade-offs in applying an elastic matching procedure on the lesion detection and proposes enhancements. The method of choice is the 3D realization of the Demon's elastic matching procedure. We validate our enhancements using synthesized deformation of stationary datasets that also serve as ground-truth. The framework is tested on 42 human eye datasets. Hence, we show that motion correction is beneficial in improving the model-fit and yet needs enhancements to correct for the intensity reductions during parameter estimation.
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- Kishore Mosaliganti
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
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Wenzel PL, Wu L, de Bruin A, Chong JL, Chen WY, Dureska G, Sites E, Pan T, Sharma A, Huang K, Ridgway R, Mosaliganti K, Sharp R, Machiraju R, Saltz J, Yamamoto H, Cross JC, Robinson ML, Leone G. Rb is critical in a mammalian tissue stem cell population. Genes Dev 2007; 21:85-97. [PMID: 17210791 PMCID: PMC1759903 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1485307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The inactivation of the retinoblastoma (Rb) tumor suppressor gene in mice results in ectopic proliferation, apoptosis, and impaired differentiation in extraembryonic, neural, and erythroid lineages, culminating in fetal death by embryonic day 15.5 (E15.5). Here we show that the specific loss of Rb in trophoblast stem (TS) cells, but not in trophoblast derivatives, leads to an overexpansion of trophoblasts, a disruption of placental architecture, and fetal death by E15.5. Despite profound placental abnormalities, fetal tissues appeared remarkably normal, suggesting that the full manifestation of fetal phenotypes requires the loss of Rb in both extraembryonic and fetal tissues. Loss of Rb resulted in an increase of E2f3 expression, and the combined ablation of Rb and E2f3 significantly suppressed Rb mutant phenotypes. This rescue appears to be cell autonomous since the inactivation of Rb and E2f3 in TS cells restored placental development and extended the life of embryos to E17.5. Taken together, these results demonstrate that loss of Rb in TS cells is the defining event causing lethality of Rb(-/-) embryos and reveal the convergence of extraembryonic and fetal functions of Rb in neural and erythroid development. We conclude that the Rb pathway plays a critical role in the maintenance of a mammalian stem cell population.
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- Pamela L. Wenzel
- Human Cancer Genetics Program, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Human Cancer Genetics Program, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Human Cancer Genetics Program, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Human Cancer Genetics Program, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Human Cancer Genetics Program, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Human Cancer Genetics Program, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Human Cancer Genetics Program, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Division of Molecular and Human Genetics, Children’s Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio 43205, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- E-MAIL ; FAX (513) 529-6900
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- Human Cancer Genetics Program, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Corresponding authors.E-MAIL ; FAX (614) 292-3312
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Saltz J, Oster S, Hastings S, Langella S, Kurc T, Sanchez W, Kher M, Manisundaram A, Shanbhag K, Covitz P. caGrid: design and implementation of the core architecture of the cancer biomedical informatics grid. Bioinformatics 2006; 22:1910-6. [PMID: 16766552 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION The complexity of cancer is prompting researchers to find new ways to synthesize information from diverse data sources and to carry out coordinated research efforts that span multiple institutions. There is a need for standard applications, common data models, and software infrastructure to enable more efficient access to and sharing of distributed computational resources in cancer research. To address this need the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has initiated a national-scale effort, called the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIGtrade mark), to develop a federation of interoperable research information systems. RESULTS At the heart of the caBIG approach to federated interoperability effort is a Grid middleware infrastructure, called caGrid. In this paper we describe the caGrid framework and its current implementation, caGrid version 0.5. caGrid is a model-driven and service-oriented architecture that synthesizes and extends a number of technologies to provide a standardized framework for the advertising, discovery, and invocation of data and analytical resources. We expect caGrid to greatly facilitate the launch and ongoing management of coordinated cancer research studies involving multiple institutions, to provide the ability to manage and securely share information and analytic resources, and to spur a new generation of research applications that empower researchers to take a more integrative, trans-domain approach to data mining and analysis. AVAILABILITY The caGrid version 0.5 release can be downloaded from https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid/. The operational test bed Grid can be accessed through the client included in the release, or through the caGrid-browser web application http://cagrid-browser.nci.nih.gov.
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- Joel Saltz
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University 3184 Graves Hall, 333 West 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Plasma microparticles (MPs) are spherical cell membrane fragments derived from either apoptotic or activated cells. Characterized by a rich phospholipid moiety and many protein constituents, MPs normally circulate in the blood and contribute to numerous physiological processes. In disease states, MPs derived from the injured organ likely contain valuable markers for determining the site, type, and extent of disease pathology. However, the basic protein characteristics of plasma MPs have yet to be described. In this study, MPs from a pooled plasma sample derived from 16 healthy donors, all of group A blood type, were prepared by ultracentrifugation. Flow cytometry confirmed that a majority of these MPs are smaller than 1 microm. Factor Xa generation assay revealed the presence of tissue factor activity in these MPs, confirming MPs' role in initiating blood coagulation. The MP proteome was analyzed by two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis performed in triplicate, and compared with a 2-D gel of pooled whole plasma and blood platelets. Overall, plasma MPs displayed distinct protein features and a greater number of protein spots (1021-1055) than that detected in whole plasma (331-370). Protein spots expressed in high abundance in the MP proteome were then excised and submitted for protein identity determination. This process provided protein identification for 169 protein spots and reported their relative protein quantities within the MP proteome. These 169 protein spots represented 83 different proteins and their respective isoforms. Thirty of these proteins have never before been reported in previous proteome analyses of human plasma. These results provide unprecedented information on the MP proteome and create a basis for future studies to understand MP biology and pathophysiology.
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- Ming Jin
- Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public Health, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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We present the design and implementation of the Virtual Microscope, a software system employing a client/server architecture to provide a realistic emulation of a high power light microscope. The system provides a form of completely digital telepathology, allowing simultaneous access to archived digital slide images by multiple clients. The main problem the system targets is storing and processing the extremely large quantities of data required to represent a collection of slides. The Virtual Microscope client software runs on the end user's PC or workstation, while database software for storing, retrieving and processing the microscope image data runs on a parallel computer or on a set of workstations at one or more potentially remote sites. We have designed and implemented two versions of the data server software. One implementation is a customization of a database system framework that is optimized for a tightly coupled parallel machine with attached local disks. The second implementation is component-based, and has been designed to accommodate access to and processing of data in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. We also have developed caching client software, implemented in Java, to achieve good response time and portability across different computer platforms. The performance results presented show that the Virtual Microscope systems scales well, so that many clients can be adequately serviced by an appropriately configured data server.
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- Umit Catalyürek
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Kamal J, Rogers P, Saltz J, Mekhjian H. Information warehouse as a tool to analyze Computerized Physician Order Entry order set utilization: opportunities for improvement. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2003; 2003:336-40. [PMID: 14728190 PMCID: PMC1480158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/28/2023]
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A Computerized Physician order entry (CPOE) system was successfully implemented at the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) in February 2000. The electronic entry and use of order sets is designed to standardize patient care and improve efficiency and patient safety. To evaluate the effectiveness of the CPOE system and to maximize its benefits, one needs to easily access and analyze the data. Since the CPOE system is not equipped to support such on demand analysis, the data from the system is extracted daily into the OSUMC's Information Warehouse (IW). This allows the CPOE data to be linked with other clinical and financial patient information in the IW to provide detailed and comprehensive analysis. Our focus in this paper is the use of the IW as a tool to analyze order set usage patterns and the opportunities such analysis provides for improvements in education, resource utilization and patient care.
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- Jyoti Kamal
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Kahwash EB, Barbacioru C, Cowden DJ, Saltz J. Proteomic patterns analysis: a new era of screening cancers. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2003; 2003:885. [PMID: 14728390 PMCID: PMC1480042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/28/2023]
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Cancer is the second leading cause of death among Americans. It is estimated that 1.28 million new Americans are diagnosed with cancer annually (1). The estimated overall annual cost of cancer being $171 Billion (1). Decreasing the costs of the screening and diagnostic tests will automatically decrease the total cost of cancer by limiting not only the direct medical costs but also by containing the indirect costs of morbidity and mortality. New screening and diagnostic tests are obviously needed. Screening methods are emerging in the evaluation of proteomic patterns. In proteomic pattern analysis, we can screen for not only one cancer but a chip may be able to screen for multiple cancers. New screening and diagnostic methods (2) investigated by NCI and FDA (3) (4) are correlating gene and protein expression patterns for early detection of cancer. Many papers have been published in the last 12 months (3) (4) (5) utilizing this new technique of molecular analysis in screening and diagnosing cancers with high sensitivity and specificity.
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Mekhjian H, Saltz J, Rogers P, Kamal J. Impact of CPOE order sets on lab orders. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2003; 2003:931. [PMID: 14728436 PMCID: PMC1480063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/28/2023]
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Introduction of the computerized physician order (CPOE) is intended to promote best practices, decrease practice variation among practitioners, and optimize the utilization of resources consistent with evidence based practice guidelines. Implicit in the use of CPOE is the assumption that the use of order sets might decrease utilization of resources such as the ordering of unnecessary laboratory tests. Conversely compliance with practice guidelines may necessitate ordering of certain tests that are deemed to be consistent with the good practice of medicine. In order to develop an understanding of these issues, we compared the utilization of laboratory orders prior to and following implementation of order sets in CPOE. In addition, we analyzed the impact of CPOE on the timely placement of certain orders based on critical levels of some laboratory results, in this instance potassium.
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- Hagop Mekhjian
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Cowden D, Barbacioru C, Kahwash E, Saltz J. Order sets utilization in a clinical order entry system. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2003; 2003:819. [PMID: 14728324 PMCID: PMC1479990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/28/2023]
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An order set is a predefined template that has been utilized in the standard care of hospitals for many years. While in the past, it took the form of pen and paper, today, it is, indeed, electronic. Within order sets are distinct ordering patterns that may yield fruitful results for clinicians and informaticians, alike. Protocols like there electronic counterpart, order sets, provide an 'indication' identifying the clinical scenario of the patient's condition when the ordering event occurred. This 'indication' is rarely captured by individual orders, and provides difficult challenges to developers of information systems. While mandating an 'indication' be entered for every medication or lab order makes the job much more tasking on the physician provider, it is appealing to researchers and accountants. We have attempted to bypasses that consideration by identifying ordering patterns that predict diagnostic related codes (DRGs) and diagnostic codes which would greatly facilitate the information gathering process and still provide a flexible and user friendly physician interface.
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Point-of-care testing (POCT) is an increasingly popular method of delivering laboratory testing. Management of POCT is challenging given the variety of devices, locations, and staff that need to be coordinated to ensure quality results and meet regulatory guidelines. Electronic capture and transfer of data are preferred for managing POCT, but there is currently no standard method of connecting different devices. Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (JHMI) developed a common data management system with interfaces to all of its POCT devices. All POCT data are collected in one database and analyzed in a similar fashion. Where data were once collected by carrying laptops to each nursing unit, the POCT devices can now connect directly to the database over the Internet. Algorithms have been created to automate the data analysis and review process. Over the several years that this software has been used, JHMI has experienced improved quality, accuracy, and management of its POCT program. The labor saved by increased automation of data review is refocused on enhancing the performance and scope of the program. Current connectivity and analysis algorithms have future application to remote consultation, management of home self-monitoring patients, and examination of real-time data.
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- K Dyer
- Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Uysal M, Kurc TM, Sussman A, Saltz J. A Performance Prediction Framework for Data Intensive Applications on Large Scale Parallel Machines. Languages, Compilers, and Run-Time Systems for Scalable Computers 1998. [DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49530-4_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Afework A, Beynon MD, Bustamante F, Cho S, Demarzo A, Ferreira R, Miller R, Silberman M, Saltz J, Sussman A, Tsang H. Digital dynamic telepathology--the Virtual Microscope. Proc AMIA Symp 1998:912-6. [PMID: 9929351 PMCID: PMC2232135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
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The Virtual Microscope is being designed as an integrated computer hardware and software system that generates a highly realistic digital simulation of analog, mechanical light microscopy. We present our work over the past year in meeting the challenges in building such a system. The enhancements we made are discussed, as well as the planned future improvements. Performance results are provided showing the system scales well, so that many users can be adequately serviced by an appropriately configured data server.
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- A Afework
- UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA
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Stoffel K, Davis JD, Rottman G, Saltz J, Dick J, Merz W, Miller R. A graphical tool for ad hoc query generation. Proc AMIA Symp 1998:503-7. [PMID: 9929270 PMCID: PMC2232066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
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Medical data are characterized by complex taxonomies and evolving terminology. Questions that clinicians, medical administrators, and researchers may wish to answer using medical databases are not easily formulated as SQL queries. In this paper we describe a graphical tool that facilitates formulation of ad hoc questions as SQL queries. This tool manages multiple attribute hierarchies and creates SQL query strings by navigating through the hierarchies. This interactive tool has been optimized using indexing to improve the overall speed of the query building and the data retrieval process. Indexed queries performed 5 to 100 times faster than query strings. However, query string generation time depends on the size of the taxonomies describing the hierarchies, while the index generation time depends on the size of the data warehouse.
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- K Stoffel
- Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA
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Ferreira R, Moon B, Humphries J, Sussman A, Saltz J, Miller R, Demarzo A. The Virtual Microscope. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp 1997:449-53. [PMID: 9357666 PMCID: PMC2233368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We present the design of the Virtual Microscope, a software system employing a client/server architecture to provide a realistic emulation of a high power light microscope. We discuss several technical challenges related to providing the performance necessary to achieve rapid response time, mainly in dealing with the enormous amounts of data (tens to hundreds of gigabytes per slide) that must be retrieved from secondary storage and processed. To effectively implement the data server, the system design relies on the computational power and high I/O throughput available from an appropriately configured parallel computer.
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Sussman A, Saltz J, Das R, Gupta S, Mavriplis D, Ponnusamy R, Crowley K. PARTI primitives for unstructured and block structured problems. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0956-0521(92)90096-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Berryman H, Saltz J, Scroggs J. Execution time support for adaptive scientific algorithms on distributed memory machines. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1002/cpe.4330030303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A quantitative assessment of the long-term prognostic value and clinical usefulness of recall antigen reactions in patients with malignant melanoma is not available. The authors evaluated longitudinal observations of survival made in 846 patients over a 12-year period. Each patient was initially studied with Mantoux-type recall antigen skin tests. The patients were categorized with respect to the following: high (greater than 5 mm) or low (less than or equal to 5 mm) averaged skin test reaction diameters at 48 hr; Clark level; tumor stage (I = localized tumor, II = local extension and/or region lymph node metastasis, III = systemic metastasis); ulceration; site of primary; histologic type; age; and sex. The percentage of high reactors in Stages I, II, and III were 44.3%, 37.4%, and 25%, respectively. Survival was evaluated with the Cox-Mantell hazard function model and the Cox regression model. The significant (chi-squared; probability) risk factors detected were tumor stage (94.58; less than or equal to 0.0001), Clark level (19.37; less than or equal to 0.0001), sex (16.97; less than or equal to 0.0001), and skin test reactivity (7.48; less than or equal to 0.0062). A significant relationship also was detected between skin test reactor status and the tumor stage (p less than or equal to 0.0330). When evaluated within each stage of disease, skin test reactivity predicted survival only in Stage II patients (p less than or equal to 0.0080). Five-year survival estimates among Stage II patients were 58% among high reactors and 38% among low reactors.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- J Saltz
- Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Saltz J. The teaching of medical computation. Med Inform (Lond) 1984; 9:310-311. [PMID: 6503468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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