Kaveh Noorbakhsh
M.S. Student,
Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Lab,
Department of Computer Science,
Kent State University,
Email: kavehn1 at gmail.com
Completed Degrees:
B.S.E. Case Western Reserve University - 2003
Current Work:
I am currently employed as a supervisor at a major biomedical imaging company in northeast Ohio.
Project: Medical Informatics for Improving Medical Software Systems
Long range goals of this project will allow for fewer doctors to see more patients, with better results, and less cost.
This work will explore how to deal with the data that will ultimately make up my program that I would like to build one day. I think without a good grasp of how to collect, display, and search complex clinical data, my long term goal of creating a computer system to automatically learn from the data will be difficult.
To that end, I would like to work on the three areas of data that I have outlined below:
1) Data acquisition, how can we acquire data from clinicians without causing them undo burden. This topic would involve subparts such as human computer interaction, gui design, perhaps some research into OCR technology. Tied closely with this would be study on what data is important to collect, as far as the end user of the data is concerned.
2) Data searching, how can we make sense of the data we have. This topic would involve subparts such as machine learning, database design, data mining, and perhaps some networking since all the data may not be on one system at a time.
3) Data display and use, how can we take the results of searching the data and present it to the user in a way that they will be able to use it to positively affect day to day patient health. This topic would involve subparts such as human computer interaction, gui design, clinical study of habits and use by the user (i.e. how does the doctor need the program to function).