Vineet’s Thorax paper was published today and has started gaining some traction. Co-senior author, David Wilson, was interviewed by our local NPR news station; and this was the first of the references of the publication in the press, which included US News, Science Daily, Health IT Analytics and others. In this study …
Congratulations to Isha D., a DiscoBio high school student, for winning a NCWIT National Award for Aspirations in Computing. Isha started working in our group last summer. She was supervised by Vineet Raghu and her work was on causal discovery applications, including microRNA target inference and analyzing sources of prior …
Dr. Sheeraz Akram is the new postdoctoral member in our group. he will work on integration of multiple datasets for the study of chronic diseases and cancer. Welcome to Pittsburgh Sheeraz!
Steve Ge and Vineet Raghu made an instructional video on how to run CausalMGM on the web. The URL for running CausalMGM is http://www.causalmgm.org and the instructional video can be viewed here. (Time: 4:27)
Congratulations to Vineet for the acceptance of his manuscript by the medical journal Thorax! The paper is entitled “Feasibility of lung cancer prediction from low-dose CT scan and smoking factors using causal models” and it presents LCCM (Lung Cancer Causal Model), a new predictor of cancer nodules from low-dose CT scan …