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Health InitiativeIntelligent System for the Classification of Multiple Tumour Types Using Gene Expression Data from DNA MicroarrayThe background that brings the necessity of this project is the following: Current clinical diagnosis of human malignancies depends on a variety of morphological and histopathological data, and poses many challenges due to the subjective elements of the analyses, morphological heterogeneity of tumours, and the presence of many atypical tumours that do not fit well within currently established subtypes. Expression genomics approaches using DNA microarrays show promise of greatly reducing these challenges, by providing non-subjective data, and thus allowing for conformation and also development of more precise subtypes. The proposed project deals with the development of novel methods for tumour classification and use of these methods for the development of web-based “intelligent” software packages that will assist in the more accurate diagnosis and prognosis of tumour subtypes. The aims of this project are the following:
The possible impacts of our research project are as following: In addition to purely scientific interest, we believe that this research proposal will be of a great importance in adapting and developing new robust multiple criteria classification methods. These methods will help to classify not only different type of tumours but also non-medical classification problems. We also believe that our web application will be used as a model for other bioinformatics laboratories that need to develop web-based tools in a short amount of time and on a limited budget. This project started in August 2003 and is expected to end in July 2007. We expect our research to contribute to the following:
We expect our research to contribute to the following domains:
Our research results could have an impact on the following sectors:
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The possible technical transfer opportunities related to this project include:
If interested, please contact the Business Development Officer listed below. The research partner of this project:
Research ContactDr. Nabil Belacel Business ContactGeorges Corriveau |
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