Industry: Healthcare | Clinical

 

Technical Intelligence for Gene Research and Healthcare 

bibiometrics of heart disease displayed as multiples spheres from a central point (larger spheres to represent the larger data sets)

 

Representation Learning on Large Scale Administrative Data

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Using Virtual Reality to Create Certainty in Clinical Decisions using Complex Genomics

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Technical Intelligence for Gene Research and Healthcare

Network of disease represented by coloured spheres with cardiovascular disease as the largest sphere

Intelligent bibliometrics for tracking and predicting technological change

Research Leads
Dist. Prof. Jie Lu and Dr. Yi Zhang

AAII Research Lab
Decision Systems and e-Service Intelligence

Collaborators 
23Strands

The rapid development of gene research, together with the significantly increase of related scientific documents, challenges entrepreneurs in systematically capturing knowledge with limited expert support and identifying business opportunities in a short time.

Intelligent bibliometrics provide an express solution of constructing a knowledge base for a given gene-related disease. This project developed a systematic toolkit to analyse large-scale scientific documents for technical intelligence e.g., identifying key players of a given domain, profiling key research areas and their associations, and tracing the evolutionary pathways of research topics over time.

 

 

Representation Learning on Large Scale Administrative Data 

Stethoscope and computer with binary code in background

Image: Stocksnap (front) and Gerd Altmann (back) / Pixabay. Originals edited.
 


Research Lead
Dr Guodong Long

AAII Research Lab
Data Science and Knowledge Discovery

Collaborators
Australian Commonwealth Department of Health

The key to effective policy development is implementing the right policy for the right group of people at the right time. To support this ethos, the public service is keen to develop predictive modelling methods to leverage the information hidden within its administrative data about different population cohorts.

In a large-scale service system, such as the Australian healthcare system, user data exists in complex structures reflective of the complexity of human interactions. Appropriate ways to model this complex structured data is a challenge common to many organisations, from sector-scale commercial services to national-scale public services.

A generalized representation of complex data is the most desirable data format for processing, particularly for large organisations and government agencies that typically deal with data on a massive scale. In particular, utilising powerful deep learning tools could be one of the implementation framework for representation learning on large-scale administrative dataset. The framework will preserve the complex relationships in an unsupervised or self-supervised manner, and to protect privacy in a decentralised training scheme without direct access of the sensitive data.

The DSKD Lab has collaborated with Australian Commonwealth Department of Health a series of projects that apply the most advanced machine learning techniques to model and analyse healthcare administrative data to promote effective policy development.

 

 

Using Virtual Reality to Create Certainty in Clinical Decisions using Complex Genomics

Research Leads
Professor Paul Kennedy
A/Prof Dan Catchpoole 

AAII Research Lab
Biomedical Data Science

Collaborators
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Western Sydney University
UTS Animal Logic Academy, Samurai Punk
Sony Foundation
Tour de Cure 

The complex human genome underpins the biological mechanisms of a patient’s cancer. Presently the knowledge provided by the genome is inaccessible to clinicians making treatment decisions for patients.

We develop machine learning and data analytics methods to model patients in a virtual reality space emphasising appropriate genomic similarities and differences. Our VR Technology allows cancer specialists and analysts to move into the 3D space and to explore the patient cohort from within. It enables clinicians to find patients with genomic similarities with other sufferers, moving far beyond simple statistical clustering methods to enable clinicians to uncover genomic relationships, and inform decision making for treatment regimens with a breadth and accuracy that has not been previously possible.

Computer screen with genetic clusters shown as red and blue spheres

Clinicians can explore the three dimensional space of the patient cohort with data simplified into clusters of genomic similarities, for clinicians to make more informed decisions of treatment regimes for individual patients

 

Paediatric patient in bed, smiling

VR technology enables clinicians to uncover genomic relationships to support decisions for the treatment of childhood cancer.
Image: National Cancer Institute /Unsplash

 

 

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.