Automation

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of automated segmentation and manual tracing for quantifying hippocampal and amygdala volumes. 
  • A fully automatic extraction of magnetic resonance image features in glioblastoma patients. 
  • A new fully automated approach for aligning and comparing shapes. 
  • A robotics platform for automated batch fabrication of high density, microfluidics-based DNA microarrays, with applications to single cell, multiplex assays of secreted proteins. 
  • A robust automated measure of average antibody staining in immunohistochemistry images. 
  • A semiautomated ultrasound border detection program that facilitates clinical measurement of ultrasound carotid intima-media thickness. 
  • ASCENT (Automated Simulations to Characterize Electrical Nerve Thresholds): A pipeline for sample-specific computational modeling of electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves. 
  • Absolute quantitation of endogenous proteins with precision and accuracy using a capillary Western system. 
  • Accuracy and generalization capability of an automatic method for the detection of typical brain hypometabolism in prodromal Alzheimer disease. 
  • An Automated Grading System for Detection of Vision-Threatening Referable Diabetic Retinopathy on the Basis of Color Fundus Photographs. 
  • An Automated High-throughput Array Microscope for Cancer Cell Mechanics. 
  • An adaptive incremental approach to constructing ensemble classifiers: application in an information-theoretic computer-aided decision system for detection of masses in mammograms. 
  • An automated HIV-1 Env-pseudotyped virus production for global HIV vaccine trials. 
  • An automated decision-tree approach to predicting protein interaction hot spots. 
  • An automated intensity-weighted brachytherapy seed localization algorithm. 
  • An automated method for comparing motion artifacts in cine four-dimensional computed tomography images. 
  • An automatic diagnosis system of nuclear cataract using slit-lamp images. 
  • An exposure indicator for digital radiography: AAPM Task Group 116 (executive summary). 
  • Associations of edge-detected and manual-traced common carotid intima-media thickness measurements with Framingham risk factors: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Automated Deep Brain Stimulation Programming for Tremor. 
  • Automated Detection of P. falciparum Using Machine Learning Algorithms with Quantitative Phase Images of Unstained Cells. 
  • Automated ICD coding via unsupervised knowledge integration (UNITE). 
  • Automated characterization of perceptual quality of clinical chest radiographs: validation and calibration to observer preference. 
  • Automated design of ligands to polypharmacological profiles. 
  • Automated detection and enumeration of marine wildlife using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and thermal imagery. 
  • Automated image acquisition and processing using a new generation of 4K x 4K CCD cameras for cryo electron microscopic studies of macromolecular assemblies. 
  • Automated quality control assessment of clinical chest images. 
  • Automated quality control in nuclear medicine using the structured noise index. 
  • Automated size-specific CT dose monitoring program: assessing variability in CT dose. 
  • Automated systematic evaluation of cryo-EM specimens with SmartScope. 
  • Automated versus Manual Data Extraction of the Padua Prediction Score for Venous Thromboembolism Risk in Hospitalized Older Adults. 
  • Automated whole-brain N-acetylaspartate proton MRS quantification. 
  • Automatic IMRT planning via static field fluence prediction (AIP-SFFP): a deep learning algorithm for real-time prostate treatment planning. 
  • Automatic detection of pathological myopia using variational level set. 
  • Automatic detection of posterior subcapsular cataract opacity for cataract screening. 
  • Automatic glaucoma diagnosis from fundus image. 
  • Automatic localization of target vertebrae in spine surgery: clinical evaluation of the LevelCheck registration algorithm. 
  • Automatic optic disc segmentation with peripapillary atrophy elimination. 
  • Automating neurosurgical tumor resection surgery: Volumetric laser ablation of cadaveric porcine brain with integrated surface mapping. 
  • Automation, regulation, and collaboration: Threats and opportunities for clinical medical physics careers in diagnostic imaging and nuclear medicine. 
  • Boredom in the Workplace: A New Look at an Old Problem. 
  • Comparative analysis of circulating endothelial progenitor cells in age-related macular degeneration patients using automated rare cell analysis (ARCA) and fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS). 
  • Comparison of anterior segment optical tomography parameters measured using a semi-automatic software to standard clinical instruments. 
  • Computational and image processing methods for analysis and automation of anatomical alignment and joint spacing in reconstructive surgery. 
  • Computing. Successes and challenges. 
  • Corneal graft detection for Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty using optical coherence tomography. 
  • Design and implementation of an automated email notification system for results of tests pending at discharge. 
  • Detailed Anatomical Orientations for Certain Types of Morphometric Measurements Can Be Determined Automatically With Geometric Algorithms. 
  • Detection of QT prolongation using a novel electrocardiographic analysis algorithm applying intelligent automation: prospective blinded evaluation using the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium electrocardiographic database. 
  • Determination of non-Vitamin K oral anticoagulant (NOAC) effects using a new-generation thrombelastography TEG 6s system. 
  • Developing operator capacity estimates for supervisory control of autonomous vehicles. 
  • Development and validation of machine learning models to identify high-risk surgical patients using automatically curated electronic health record data (Pythia): A retrospective, single-site study. 
  • Dusting Efficiency of the Moses Holmium Laser: An Automated In Vitro Assessment. 
  • Enabling high-throughput biology with flexible open-source automation. 
  • Evaluation and comparison of Tranquility and AutoSet T autotitrating CPAP machines. 
  • Evaluation of a modified procedure for Staclot LA for the confirmation of lupus anticoagulants. 
  • Evaluation of the YSI 2300 glucose analyzer: algorithm-corrected results are accurate and specific. 
  • Extending semiautomatic ventilation defect analysis for hyperpolarized (129)Xe ventilation MRI. 
  • Extraction and analysis of carnitine and acylcarnitines by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry directly from dried blood and plasma spots using a novel autosampler. 
  • Functional analysis of novel SNPs and mutations in human and mouse genomes. 
  • Hardware Design and Fault-Tolerant Synthesis for Digital Acoustofluidic Biochips. 
  • High-throughput affinity ranking of antibodies using surface plasmon resonance microarrays. 
  • High-throughput screening assay for the tunable selection of protein ligands. 
  • Impact of automated alerts on follow-up of post-discharge microbiology results: a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Impact of automated reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate in the veterans health administration. 
  • Impact of automatic infectious diseases consultation on the management of fungemia at a large academic medical center. 
  • Influencing Trust for Human-Automation Collaborative Scheduling of Multiple Unmanned Vehicles. 
  • Inhibition of the futalosine pathway for menaquinone biosynthesis suppresses Chlamydia trachomatis infection. 
  • Integrating ethics in design through the value-sensitive design approach. 
  • Lateral and axial measurement differences between spectral-domain optical coherence tomography systems. 
  • Learning-based approach for the automatic detection of the optic disc in digital retinal fundus photographs. 
  • Look who's talking: A comparison of automated and human-generated speaker tags in naturalistic day-long recordings. 
  • Machine learning derived segmentation of phase velocity encoded cardiovascular magnetic resonance for fully automated aortic flow quantification. 
  • Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in Phenix. 
  • Microfluidic platform versus conventional real-time polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in respiratory specimens. 
  • ORIGA(-light): an online retinal fundus image database for glaucoma analysis and research. 
  • On-axis sensitivity and resolution of a slit-slat collimator. 
  • Open source software for automatic detection of cone photoreceptors in adaptive optics ophthalmoscopy using convolutional neural networks. 
  • Patient-specific quantification of image quality: An automated method for measuring spatial resolution in clinical CT images. 
  • Plant-centered biosystems in space environments: technological concepts for developing a plant genetic assessment and control system. 
  • PrimerZ: streamlined primer design for promoters, exons and human SNPs. 
  • Protein-Protein Docking Benchmark 2.0: an update. 
  • PsychDT Working Group: Report Psychosocial Aspects of Artificial Pancreas Systems. 
  • Purification of an elastin-like fusion protein by microfiltration. 
  • Quantitative analysis of hyperpolarized 129Xe ventilation imaging in healthy volunteers and subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Quantitative comparison of automatic and manual IMRT optimization for prostate cancer: the benefits of DVH prediction. 
  • Rational Manual and Automated Scoring Thresholds for the Immunohistochemical Detection of TP53 Missense Mutations in Human Breast Carcinomas. 
  • Rebuttal to Hasan and Pedraza in comments and controversies: "Improving the reliability of manual and automated methods for hippocampal and amygdala volume measurements". 
  • Recognition of CKD after the introduction of automated reporting of estimated GFR in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Refractive change after descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty surgery and its correlation with graft thickness and diameter. 
  • Round Trip: An Automated Pipeline for Experimental Design, Execution, and Analysis. 
  • Segmentation and quantification of pulmonary artery for noninvasive CT assessment of sickle cell secondary pulmonary hypertension. 
  • SplicerEX: a tool for the automated detection and classification of mRNA changes from conventional and splice-sensitive microarray expression data. 
  • Stereoselective determination of methadone and the primary metabolite EDDP in human plasma by automated on-line extraction and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry. 
  • Temporal similarity perfusion mapping: A standardized and model-free method for detecting perfusion deficits in stroke. 
  • The Potential Impact of Job Automation on Veterans in Vocational Rehabilitation Programs. 
  • The need for command and control instant message adaptive interfaces: lessons learned from Tactical Tomahawk human-in-the-loop simulations. 
  • The role of human-automation consensus in multiple unmanned vehicle scheduling. 
  • Towards automatic detection of age-related macular degeneration in retinal fundus images. 
  • Towards automatic grading of nuclear cataract. 
  • Trust in automation: integrating empirical evidence on factors that influence trust. 
  • Use of an automated bolus calculator reduces fear of hypoglycemia and improves confidence in dosage accuracy in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus treated with multiple daily insulin injections. 
  • Utility of Functional Hemodynamics and Echocardiography to Aid Diagnosis and Management of Shock. 
  • Validation of an automated system for aliquoting of HIV-1 Env-pseudotyped virus stocks. 
  • Whole-brain activity mapping onto a zebrafish brain atlas. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Driehuys, Bastiaan, Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering
  • Farsiu, Sina, Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Gross, Daniel, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business
  • Luftig, Micah Alan, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Cell Biology
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology