Controlling cancer requires comprehensive understanding of the molecular, cellular, and organizational properties of tumor tissue. While clinical pathology has served as [...]

Learning in neural systems relies on forming associative memories through changes in synaptic connections, enabling information retrieval via learned associations. This t [...]

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) allows for the noninvasive exploration of animal and human anatomy. The focus of this project was to evaluate automatic segmentation rout [...]

With the increasing volume of published online full-text scientific articles, even the most robust Information Retrieval (IR) system returns more documents and ab [...]

This thesis is concerned with the design and implementation of BArry, a microarray data warehouse. The warehouse stores microarray expression data, information about labo [...]

Sex and gender are commonly thought to be synonymous, and both are generally classified using the binary categories of male and female. Existing standards applying to ele [...]

Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) training programs share an overarching goal of enhancing education and support for their students. The desire to underst [...]

The U.S. government Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance (BRFSS) survey is an important source of demographic and health data. As with many surveys, BRFSS has missing dat [...]

This thesis addresses two topics: constrained clustering and cognitive decline detection. First, we develop probabilistic clustering methods that incorporate pairwise con [...]

A cost-benefit analysis (CBA) tool allows a healthcare organization to input important variables related to a potential project to determine the expected economic impact [...]