Subject: Biomedical Track, Schedule and
Highlights, San Diego Data
Mining Conference, March 29-31, San Diego, California
* Conference begins at 6PM on March 29th.
* Optional Pre-Conference Training, March 27-29
Focusing on the Contributions of Data Mining to Solving Real World
Challenges
2 Full Days of Case Study Presentations on March 30th and 31st.
Conference begins at 6PM on March 29th with a Welcome Reception.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
http://www.salforddatamining.com/docs/schedule06.pdf
FULL BIOMEDICAL TRACK including presentations related to Drug
Discovery,
Clinical Medicine, Microarrary Data Analysis, Drug Safety and
Epidemiology
MINI-TUTORIALS and PRESENTATIONS
2 mini-tutorials and 13 presentations related to data mining
as it applies to biostatistical and bioinformatics modeling. Please
see
the detailed list of topics and presenters below.
PRE-CONFERENCE HANDS-ON TRAINING
March 27 - March 29, 2006
Network with Data Mining Experts and Pick up Pointers from
Biostatistical Professionals and also from statistically-minded
professionals
in non-medical industries using techniques that might also be of
interest
in Biostatistics.
Registration: http://www.salforddatamining.com/registration.htm
If you have an interest in attending this conference or the
pre-conference
training, please contact Lisa Solomon:
Phone: 619-543-8880 x109, Email: lisas@salford-systems.com
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Detailed Information:
TUTORIALS:
Random Forests Tutorial: Case Study Examples from Autism,
Multiple Schlerosis and Microarray Data
Presenter: Adele Cutler, Co-Developer of Random Forests.
“Overcoming Obstacles of Publishing in Medical Journals:
Explaining the Value of Data Mining to a Resistant Audience”
Presenter: Marsha Wilcox, I3 Drug Safety, Harvard
Medical
School and Boston University
BIOSTATISTICALLY-ORIENTED PRESENTATIONS:
Keynote: Application of Novel Tree-Based Methods to Modeling
the Genetics of Complex Disease, Finding Genotypes and Various
Interactions”
Presenter: Dr. Richard Olshen, Stanford University
Medical School
"MARS, CART, TreeNet/MART for Epidemiological Research:
Identifying Relationships That Cannot Be Identified In Any Other Way"
Presenter: Dr. Shenghan Lai, Johns Hopkins
University Medical School
"Combining CART, MARS, TreeNET, Neural Networks and
Genetic Algorithm/Support Vector-Like Machines for Drug Discovery: The
Search
for Orally Effective, Non-Toxic Integrase Inhibitors for the Treatment
and
Possible Prevention of HIV Infection"
Presenter: Dr. Wayne Danter, Critical Outcomes Technologies
“Developing Predictive Models, a Comparison of Standard
Regression
and Data Mining Methods: Case Studies Related to Obesity and
In-hospital
Mortality, A Comparison of Data Mining Methods versus Standard
Regression Techniques (MARS vs OLS)”
Presenter: Dr. Paul Kolm, Emory
University Medical School
"Umbilical Cord Length, Other Placental Growth
Measures, Placental Weight and Birthweight"
Presenter: Dr. Carrie Salafia, Columbia University
School of Public
Health
“Classification and Regression Tree (CART) Analysis to
Identify
Patients at Low-Risk for Injury Following Trauma”
Presenter: Dr. Jason Haukoos, Denver Health
Medical Center
"Multi-level Hybrid CART-logit Models to Predict Early
Childhood Caries with Individual, Family and Neighborhood Factors"
Presenter: Dr. Stuart Gansky, University of California San
Francisco Dental
School
"Drug Safety in ADHD"
Presenter: Dr. Marsha Wilcox, I3 Drug Safety and Harvard Medical
School and Boston University Medical
School
“Tissue Microarray Data: Random Forest
Clustering. A Focus on the Use of Random
Forest Dissimilarities for Tumor Class Discovery and the Theoretical
Properties
of a Random Forest Dissimilarity”
Presenter: Dr. Steve Horvath, University
of California, Los Angeles
"A Feature Selection Algorithm with Redundant Expressed
Gene Filtering
from Microarray Data. Predictive Accuracies with Random
Forests"
Presenter: Dr. Jorge Martin Arevalillo, Universidad Nacional
de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid,
Spain
“Microarrays:
Training Microarrays to Measure DNA Copy Number”
Presenter: Svetlana Shchegrova, Agilent Technologies
"Bird Flu, Investigations and Spatial Modeling of Bird
Flu in Alaska, Russian Far East and
Elsewhere:
Applications of the Salford Systems
Software
Suite Along International Flyways"
Presenter: Dr. Falk Huettmann, University of Alaska,
Centre for Wildlife Ecology
"Classification of the Near Infrared Spectrum by
TreeNet. Case Study Related to Food Eaten in East Asia and Japan"
Presenter: Dr. Mikio Kahara, Ichinoseki
National College
of Technology, Japan
"Automatized Methods For Finding the Best Algorithm
Setting for Modeling Biodiversity Data in a Spatial GIS-Setting: MARS
(Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines) and Beyond"
Presenter: Dr. Falk Huettmann, University of Alaska,
Centre for Wildlife Ecology
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