December 2019 – Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing

Yelena Yesha Lecture 2/5/2020 on Medical Imaging

Artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential to augment the clinician as a virtual radiology assistant (vRA) through enriching information and providing clinical decision support. Deep learning is a type of AI that has shown promise in performance for Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) tasks. A current barrier to implementing deep learning for clinical CAD tasks in radiology is that it requires a training set to be representative and as large as possible in order to generalize appropriately and achieve high accuracy predictions. Read more “Yelena Yesha Lecture 2/5/2020 on Medical Imaging” →

Events

Lunch & Learn on Brain Networks 1/22/2020

In this session, Dr. Michael Mannino will describe and show how “The Virtual Brain,” a neuroinformatics package, simulates the human brain, using a computational model that explores the dynamics of large-scale brain networks, and information flow between different brain regions underpinning cognitive processes like working memory, attention, and perception. He will also discuss other conceptual issues about the use of simulation and computation in neuroscience. Read more “Lunch & Learn on Brain Networks 1/22/2020” →

News

Notification: Storage System Maintenance Begins 1/4

/projects2 on the Pegasus cluster will be offline from 7AM to 11:59 PM EST, Tuesday, 01/14/2020. During this period, we will be working on the future expansion of our system. The rest of the system will be functioning as usual. Please plan accordingly.
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Events

Intro to TRITON Workshop-Medical campus 12/13/2019

The CCS Advanced Computing team is offering training sessions on TRITON at all three campuses. The training session will include information on how to create a new Triton account, utilize the pre-installed software, and best practices for using the new features on Triton for Deep Learning and Data Science.
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Publications

Research Techniques Made Simple: Molecular Docking in Dermatology-A Foray…

Drug discovery is a complex process with many potential pitfalls. To go to market, a drug must undergo extensive preclinical optimization followed by clinical trials to establish its efficacy and minimize toxicity and adverse events. The process can take 10-15 years and command vast research and development resources costing over $1 billion. Read more “Research Techniques Made Simple: Molecular Docking in Dermatology-A Foray into In Silico Drug Discovery” →

Publications

Data Curation for Big Interdisciplinary Science: The Pulley Ridge…

The curation and preservation of scientific data has long been recognized as an essential activity for the reproducibility of science and the advancement of knowledge. While investment into data curation for specific disciplines and at individual research institutions has advanced the ability to preserve research data products, data curation for big interdisciplinary science remains relatively unexplored terrain. Read more “Data Curation for Big Interdisciplinary Science: The Pulley Ridge Experience” →

Publications

Deep Sea Oil Spills-Investigating Droplet Size Distributions and Oil…

The depletion of readily accessible oil reservoirs in conjunction with the demand for fossil fuels leads to the exploration and production of remote deposits, esp. in the deep sea. Operations at hard-to-reach locations far beyond atmospheric conditions are challenging and associated with elevated risk, Read more “Deep Sea Oil Spills-Investigating Droplet Size Distributions and Oil Fate in Experiments and Modeling” →

Events

Poster Winners Announced for Big Data + VizUM 2019

Students, researchers, and patrons from the University of Miami, FIU, Ransom Everglades School, and the local community gathered at Robert and Judi Prokop Newman Alumni Center for the combined annual Big Data Conference and VizUM Symposium, held on Wednesday, December 11, 2019. The event began in the Bruce & Robbi Toll Library with Poster Presentations. This was the event’s first call for posters and cash prizes were at stake!
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Publications

Scaling Up Heterogeneous Waveform Clustering for Long-Duration Monitoring Signal…

Modern oscilloscopes, digitizers and data loggers generate a large amount of waveform data for long-duration waveform capturing and analysis. The contrast of time scales of long-duration waveform capturing (e.g., hours or days in high sampling rate) and analysis (e.g., signal fragments of several microseconds) produces unique big data challenges. Read more “Scaling Up Heterogeneous Waveform Clustering for Long-Duration Monitoring Signal Acquisition, Analysis, and Interaction” →

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Ren, Ogihara, and Johnson Present Papers at IEEE 2019…

Joseph Johnson, Mitsunori Ogihara, Daniel Messinger, and Gang Ren (and their co-authors) presented papers at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining in Beijing, China, (held on November 8-11). Dr. Daniel Messinger also attended and was a Keynote Speaker for the ICDM-TMDM Translational Multimedia Data Mining for AI-Based Medical Diagnostics Workshop. Read more “Ren, Ogihara, and Johnson Present Papers at IEEE 2019 in Beijing” →

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