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    Misinformation Reduction in Patient-doctor Relationships

    June 11, 2018
    Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Anita Tucker,Professor, Questrom School of Business Co-PI: Jillian Berry Jaeker, Department of Operations and Technology Management The Challenge While doctors are entrusted with the provision of healthcare services for the patients, in some cases wrong diagnosis has been rampant. Evidently, such cases are witnessed in healthcare systems that do […]
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    Characterization of Cognitive State from Signatures of Digital Data

    June 11, 2018
    Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Thomas Perls, Professor, Genetics, Medicine, MED Co-PI(s): Paola Sebastiani, Professor, Biostatistics, SPH; Stacy Andersen, Assistant Professor, Medicine, MED   The Challenge Though the numerous states of mind are known, pointing out the specific person’s state of mind at any particular moment is somewhat challenging. Only after establishing a person’s […]
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    Optimizing machine learning capabilities to support young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities’ (IDD) engagement in health-related behaviors

    June 11, 2018
    Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Jessica Kramer, Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept of Occupational Therapy Co-PI: Dora Erdos, Lecturer & Undergraduate Program Director, Computer Science, CAS The challenge The major challenge is witnessed in the provision of support to young people with IDD in order to increase their capacities in the performance of various tasks related […]
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    KidneyAI: Point-of-care software application for assessment of renal diseases

    June 11, 2018
    Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Vijaya Kolachalama, Assistant Professor, Computational Biomedicine, MED Co-PI(s): Vipul Chitalia, Assistant Professor, Medicine, MED;  Joel Henderson, Associate Professor & Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine The challenge The renal disease requires timely diagnosis and design monitoring schedules to eliminate possibilities of fatalities among the patient. Renal disease is a […]
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    Predicting Patterns in Real-time Cognitive Performance in Neurodegenerative Disease

    June 11, 2018
    Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Alice Cronin-Golomb, Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences Co-PI: Daniel Fulford, Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy, SAR; Vijaya Kolachalama, Assistant Professor, Medicine, MED   The challenge There has been a global rise in life expectancy and a decline in fertility; thus there has been an increasing number of people older than […]
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    Autism Spectrum Engaged Cloud Technology (ASPECT) Hub

    June 11, 2018
    Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Associate Professor, Psychology Co-PI: Wesley Wildman, Professor, Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics The challenge Guardians experience difficulties in raising children with autism disorder. Victims of the disorder suffer communication and speech deficiency due to differed sensory processing which breeds social issues. Behavioral changes and cognitive impairment make the child rigid to change. […]
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    The Global Structure of the Heliosphere with a Realistic Time-Dependent Solar Wind

    June 11, 2018
    Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Merav Opher, Associate Professor, Astronomy  Co-PI: Charalampos Tsourakakis, Assistant Professor, Computer Science  The Challenge The heliosphere is subject to changes in the intensity of solar winds. The challenge, however, is to determine the structure of the heliosphere in real-time to track even the smallest changes in its structure since like all other uncertainties, […]
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    Bridging Linguistic and Visual Knowledge through Visual Genome

    June 10, 2018
    FALL 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Derry Wijaya, Assistant Professor, Computer Science What is the Challenge? Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems aim to provide answers to questions about images but currently suffer from limitations. Successful performance on the VQA task could dramatically improve the lives of blind people, whose questions about images are currently quite difficult […]
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    Identifying Biological, Socio-Emotional, and Experiential Risks That Foretell the Emergence of Callous-Unemotional (CU) Traits

    June 10, 2018
    FALL 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Nicholas Wagner, Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences Co-PI: Anthony Rosellini, Research Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences What is the Challenge? Children with callous-unemotional (CU) traits, characterized by low empathy, guilt, and prosociality, are more likely to develop disruptive behavior disorder (DBD) and show severe and persistent aggression, violence, and […]

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    Deep Learning Enabled Digital Immuno-Fluorescence Labeling for Intelligent Cell Phenotyping (Aim-Dif)

    June 10, 2018
    FALL 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Lei Tian, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Co-PI: Yi Ji, Assistant Professor, Medicine What is the Challenge? The specific problem we aim to tackle in this project is the fundamental multiplexing limitation in immunofluorescence (IF) microscopy that restricts imaging only a few types of molecular targets on the same biological sample […]