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HealthAgents
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 * Improve the classification of brain tumours by using a distributed network of local databases or Data Marts. * Develop new pattern recognition methods for a distributed classification and analysis of HR MAS and microarray data. * 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. * Compile evaluate and use parameters to audit classifiers and improve them periodically (First level of “self learning.”) * 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 * Publish scientific articles featuring most relevant achievements. Technological * Build the world’s largest distributed data warehouse of brain tumour cases data. * Set up a multi-agent system based on a distributed architecture. * Design a new ontology of brain tumour data. * Define a process to convert brain tumour data. * Devise a new data exchange protocol, to send and retrieve brain tumour data through a multi-agent based network. * Develop tumour classifiers using the distributed data warehouse. * Compare and analyse similitude and differences between Data Marts. * Formulate a protocol to produce improved classifiers from new data. * 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 FP6 IST STREP
Principal Investigators
Other Investigators
- mc3
- lx
- dpd
- bh