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HealthAgents plans to create a multi-agent distributed Decision Support System, to help in the early diagnosis and prognosis of brain tumours.

HealthAgents addresses two main complementary and equally important sets of objectives: Scientific and Technological
Scientific

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Improve the classification of brain tumours by using a distributed network of local databases or Data Marts.
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Develop new pattern recognition methods for a distributed classification and analysis of HR MAS and microarray data.
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Define a method to check the quality and usability of a new candidate local database with a set of new cases, based on a quality score.
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Compile evaluate and use parameters to audit classifiers and improve them periodically (First level of “self learning.”)
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Create a “trust” framework to increase the amount of collaborating centres that after classifying some new cases will possibly provide new brain tumour cases for the distributed data warehouse
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Publish scientific articles featuring most relevant achievements.

Technological

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Build the world’s largest distributed data warehouse of brain tumour cases data.
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Set up a multi-agent system based on a distributed architecture.
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Design a new ontology of brain tumour data.
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Define a process to convert brain tumour data.
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Devise a new data exchange protocol, to send and retrieve brain tumour data through a multi-agent based network.
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Develop tumour classifiers using the distributed data warehouse.
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Compare and analyse similitude and differences between Data Marts.
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Formulate a protocol to produce improved classifiers from new data.
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Enforce security policies (anonymity, authentication, authorisation, and consistency) of all information system wide.

Homepage: http://www.healthagents.net/
Type: Normal Research Project
Research Group: Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
Themes: Agent Based Computing, Knowledge Technologies, Semantic Web
Dates: 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2008

Partners

  • University of Birmingham
  • University of Edinburgh
  • ITACA
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • MicroArt
  • Pharma Quality Europe
  • Universitat de Valencia
  • Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Funding

  • EU

Principal Investigators

Other Investigators

URI: http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/project/507
RDF: http://rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/project/507

More information

Associated Publications

Number of items: 3.

Dupplaw, D., Croitoru, M., Dasmahapatra, S., Gibb, A., Gonzalez-Velez, H., Lurgi, M., Hu, B., Lewis, P. and Peet, A. (2011) A Knowledge-Rich Distributed Decision Support Framework: A
Case Study for Brain Tumour Diagnosis. Knowledge Engineering Review, 26 (3). pp. 247-260.

Hu, B., Croitoru, M., Roset, R., Dupplaw, D., Lurgi, M., Dasmahapatra, S., Lewis, P., Martinez-Miranda, J. and Saez, C. (2011) The HealthAgents ontology: Knowledge representation in a distributed decision support system for brain tumours. Knowledge Engineering Review, 26 (3). pp. 303-328.

Xiao, L., Dasmahapatra, S., Lewis, P., Peet, A., Gibb, A., Dupplaw, D., Croitoru, M., Hu, B., Estanyol, F., Martinez-Miranda, J., Gonzalez-Velez, H. and Lluch i Ariet, M. (2011) The design and implementation of a novel security model for HealthAgents. Knowledge Engineering Review, 26 (3). pp. 261-282.

This list was generated on Thu Feb 9 00:58:42 2012 GMT.

Publications included from http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/view/projects/507.include.