{"title":"SymptomGraph: Identifying Symptom Clusters from Narrative Clinical Notes using Graph Clustering.","authors":"Fattah Muhammad Tahabi, Susan Storey, Xiao Luo","doi":"10.1145/3555776.3577685","DOIUrl":"10.1145/3555776.3577685","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients with cancer or other chronic diseases often experience different symptoms before or after treatments. The symptoms could be physical, gastrointestinal, psychological, or cognitive (memory loss), or other types. Previous research focuses on understanding the individual symptoms or symptom correlations by collecting data through symptom surveys and using traditional statistical methods to analyze the symptoms, such as principal component analysis or factor analysis. This research proposes a computational system, SymptomGraph, to identify the symptom clusters in the narrative text of written clinical notes in electronic health records (EHR). SymptomGraph is developed to use a set of natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods to first extract the clinician-documented symptoms from clinical notes. Then, a semantic symptom expression clustering method is used to discover a set of typical symptoms. A symptom graph is built based on the co-occurrences of the symptoms. Finally, a graph clustering algorithm is developed to discover the symptom clusters. Although SymptomGraph is applied to the narrative clinical notes, it can be adapted to analyze symptom survey data. We applied Symptom-Graph on a colorectal cancer patient with and without diabetes (Type 2) data set to detect the patient symptom clusters one year after the chemotherapy. Our results show that SymptomGraph can identify the typical symptom clusters of colorectal cancer patients' post-chemotherapy. The results also show that colorectal cancer patients with diabetes often show more symptoms of peripheral neuropathy, younger patients have mental dysfunctions of alcohol or tobacco abuse, and patients at later cancer stages show more memory loss symptoms. Our system can be generalized to extract and analyze symptom clusters of other chronic diseases or acute diseases like COVID-19.</p>","PeriodicalId":74534,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Symposium on Applied Computing. Symposium on Applied Computing","volume":"2023 ","pages":"518-527"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10504685/pdf/nihms-1930528.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10635660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ranking Novel Regulatory Genes in Gene Expression Profiles using NetExpress.","authors":"Belma Yelbay, Alexander Gow, Hasan M Jamil","doi":"10.1145/3019612.3021289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3019612.3021289","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding gene regulation by identifying gene products and determining their roles in regulatory networks is a complex process. A common computational method is to reverse engineer a regulatory network from gene expression profile, and sanitize the network using known information about the genes, their interactions and other properties to filter out unlikely interactors. Unfortunately, due to limited resources most gene expression studies have a limited and small number of time points, and most reverse engineering tools are unable to handle large numbers of genes. Both of these factors play significant roles in influencing the accuracy of the process. In this paper, we present a new gene ranking algorithm from gene expression profiles with a small number of time points so that the most relevant genes can be selected for reverse engineering. We also present a graphical interface called <i>NetExpress</i>, which adopts this algorithm and allows users to set control parameters to effect the desired outcome, and visualize the analysis for iterative fine tuning.</p>","PeriodicalId":74534,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Symposium on Applied Computing. Symposium on Applied Computing","volume":"2017 ","pages":"24-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1145/3019612.3021289","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39067634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Fang, Y. Liu, Jeffrey R. Huang, S. Vinci-Booher, Bruce Anthony, F. Zhou
{"title":"Facial image classification of mouse embryos for the animal model study of fetal alcohol syndrome","authors":"S. Fang, Y. Liu, Jeffrey R. Huang, S. Vinci-Booher, Bruce Anthony, F. Zhou","doi":"10.1145/1529282.1529463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1529282.1529463","url":null,"abstract":"Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a developmental disorder caused by maternal drinking during pregnancy. Computerize imaging techniques have been applied to study human facial dysmorphology associated with FAS. This paper describes a new facial image analysis method based on a multi-angle image classification technique using micro-video images of mouse embryo. Images taken from several different angles are analyzed separately, and the results are combined for classifications that separate embryos with and without alcohol exposures. Analysis results from animal models provide critical references for the understanding of FAS and potential therapy solutions for human patients.","PeriodicalId":74534,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Symposium on Applied Computing. Symposium on Applied Computing","volume":"16 1","pages":"852-856"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88334212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facial Image Classification of Mouse Embryos for the Animal Model Study of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.","authors":"Shiaofen Fang, Ying Liu, Jeffrey Huang, Sophia Vinci-Booher, Bruce Anthony, Feng Zhou","doi":"10.1901/jaba.2009.2009-852","DOIUrl":"10.1901/jaba.2009.2009-852","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a developmental disorder caused by maternal drinking during pregnancy. Computerize imaging techniques have been applied to study human facial dysmorphology associated with FAS. This paper describes a new facial image analysis method based on a multi-angle image classification technique using micro-video images of mouse embryo. Images taken from several different angles are analyzed separately, and the results are combined for classifications that separate embryos with and without alcohol exposures. Analysis results from animal models provide critical references for the understanding of FAS and potential therapy solutions for human patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":74534,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Symposium on Applied Computing. Symposium on Applied Computing","volume":"2009 ","pages":"852-856"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874915/pdf/nihms135309.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29017065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Umit Catalyurek, Tahsin Kurc, Joel Saltz
{"title":"Parallel Materialization of Large ABoxes.","authors":"Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Umit Catalyurek, Tahsin Kurc, Joel Saltz","doi":"10.1145/1529282.1529564","DOIUrl":"10.1145/1529282.1529564","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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).</p>","PeriodicalId":74534,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... Symposium on Applied Computing. Symposium on Applied Computing","volume":" ","pages":"1257-1261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111083/pdf/nihms83719.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29930580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}