Tech and Public Health: Bioimaging and Machine Learning at the Bedside

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In this partner event with General Assembly, Dr. Shannon Quinn from UGA will discuss using Python in cutting-edge computational methods for public health.

Addressing public health concerns requires large-scale collaboration, which is impossible without objective baseline assessments and openly-available analytics tools. Biomedical research and subsequent bedside applications have traditionally been siloed and proprietary endeavors. Open source tools and techniques will provide public health officials with powerful methods for addressing critical health concerns.

This talk discusses promising initial results in the area of respiratory disease recognition. It will include an overview of developing an end-to-end Python machine learning workflow to identify abnormalities in biomedical video data. Dr. Quinn's ML pipeline achieved an overall accuracy of 93% in distinguishing normal behavior in biomedical videos from abnormal behavior.

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Bio

Dr. Quinn received his Ph.D. in Computational Biology from the Joint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology. His interdisciplinary research group consists of students and collaborators in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Infectious Diseases, and Ecology. While his primary research focus is the development of scalable imaging tools and algorithms, his group's projects span many different public health applications: mining social media to identify and monitor disease outbreaks, tracking the motion of nasal cilia for pathological insights, and developing novel
computational neuroscience tools to identify markers of neurodegenerative disorders. He is an advocate of Open Science and an active contributor to many open source projects, such as Apache Mahout, Apache Spark, and Apache Flink.

Event details

7:00 Socialize and eat pizza

7:30 Dr. Quinn's talk

8:00 Break

8:10 Q&A Session

8:30 Lightning talks

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