| Name: | Paul Alvarez | |
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| Email: | pcalv (at )eden (dot) rutgers (dot) edu | pcalv (at) reu (dot) dimacs (dot) rutgers (dot) edu |
| Office: | Hill 323 | |
| Home Institution: | Rutgers University | |
| Project: | Statistical analysis of medical devices and their adverse effects |
About My Project
Medical devices are subject to unforeseen failures. Beginning with data culled from user-submitted reports on their experiences with a given medical device, we will use statistical tools to detect patterns identifying links between a device and possible adverse effects. In this way, we hope to increase safety and expedite the process of assessing medical device defects.
Research Log
Week 1
I read Drs. Shetty and Dalal's paper on combing through PubMed publications to discern drug-side effect links; we extrapolate the concept to medical devices. It is immediately clear that carrying over the techniques is not straight-forward, owing to differences in the data set, among other things. I have begun to look at R, and am considering possible means of sorting our data.
I looked into making a clustering algorithm with either Python or C++.
Week 2
Switching gears, I began work on compiling and building a program that would implement our data clustering. Having done that, I am experimenting with what the program will accept as its input.
References & Links
Here are the papers I have read for my project:- Using information mining of the medical literature to improve drug safety , Shetty, Dalal - JAMIA.