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Activity Number:
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113
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 7, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Biometrics Section
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| Abstract - #305584 |
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Title:
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Challenges for Statisticians in Cervical Cancer Screening Research
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Author(s):
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Jong Soo Lee*+
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Companies:
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M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Address:
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1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX, 77030,
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Abstract:
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We highlight some of the collaborative research effort between biomedical engineers and statisticians in a cervical cancer screening project. The biomedical engineers have created an optical device for use in early detection of cervical cancer, and we first present some background on this medical device. Next, we discuss the statistical techniques used. During the development of this novel technology, statisticians were involved with everything from preliminary data screening to inference on the device output to the development of supervised learning algorithms for disease classification. We show how the statistical methods have been vital to this project and why the development of new methods became necessary. Lastly, we outline further research opportunities in this joint venture.
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