SCIENCE AT THE EDGE SEMINAR SERIES

Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminar

Friday, 24 February 2012 at 11:30am

Room 1400 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Bldg.

Refreshments at 11:15

Speaker: Michael Kosorok
         Department of Biostatistics and
         National Institute of Statistical Sciences,
         University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title:   Personalized Medicine and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract:

Personalized medicine is an important and active area of clinical research
involving high dimensional data. In this talk, we describe some recent design
and methodological developments in clinical trials for discovery and
evaluation of personalized medicine. Statistical learning tools from
artificial intelligence, including machine learning, reinforcement learning
and several newer learning methods, are beginning to play increasingly
important roles in these areas. We present illustrative examples in treatment
of depression and cancer. The new approaches have significant potential to
improve health and well being.