From: Lisa Solomon (lisas_at_salford-systems.com)
Date: Mon Jul 10 2006 - 12:22:37 CDT

BIOMETRIC CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS (no charge)
PDF's from our recent data mining user group conferences and
illustrating biometric applications in industry, academia and research.

Contact me if you would like to see case study presentations related to
your interests. See list below. Most are available to the public.

Best regards,
Lisa Solomon
Ph: (619)543-8880
Email: lisas_at_salford-systems.com

BIOMETRIC CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS:

"Microarrays: Training Microarrays to Measure DNA Copy Number"
Presenter: Svetlana Shchegrova, Agilent Technologies

"Improving the Ability to Predict Drug-Like Compounds from Virtual
Screening Using CART"
Donovan Chin, Biogen

"Using CART and TreeNet to Discern Models in Genetics: Alzheimer
Disease, Alcoholism, Cocaine Addiction and Aging"
Marsha Wilcox, Boston University Medical School

"CART in Drug Discovery: Identifying Rules for Making Better Small
Molecules"
Jing Wang, Cengent Therapeutics

"Mining SELDI ProteinChip Data for Biomarkers and Disease Stratification"
Kenna Mawk, Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc.

"Generating a Connected Weighted Graph for the Analysis of HIV Data
Using CART 5"
George Towfic, Clarke College

"Application of MARS to Gene Expression Data: Predictive Models of Gene
Regulation"
Debopriya Das, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

"Umbilical Cord Length, Other Placental Growth Measures, Placental
Weight and Birthweight"
Carrie Salafia, Columbia University School of Public Health

"A Comparison of Hybrid CART/TreeNET - Generalized Additive Model and
Support Vector Machine Tools for Drug Discovery and Pre-Clinical Drug
Development"

Wayne Danter, Critical Outcome Technologies, Inc.
"Combining CART, MARS, TreeNET, Neural Networks and Genetic
Algorithm/Support Vector-Like Machines for Drug Discovery: The Search
for Orally Effective, Non-Toxic Integrase Inhibitors for the Treatment
and Possible Prevention of HIV Infection"

Presenter: Dr. Wayne Danter, Critical Outcomes Technologies
"Drug Discovery using CART and MARS"

Wayne Danter, Critical Outcome Technologies, Inc.
"CART for Outcome Predictions in Clinical Settings: Emergency Department
Triage, Survival Prediction and Prediction of Neurologic Survival"

Jason Haukoos MD, Denver Health Medical Center
"Classification and Regression Tree (CART) Analysis to Identify Patients
at Low-Risk for Injury Following Trauma"

"Developing Predictive Models, a Comparison of Standard Regression and
Data Mining Methods: Case Studies Related to Obesity and In-hospital
Mortality, A Comparison of Data Mining Methods versus Standard
Regression Techniques (MARS vs OLS)"
Presenter: Dr. Paul Kolm, Emory University Medical School

"Using CART to Assess "Missing at Random" in the Development of
Multivariable Risk Adjustment Models"
Paul Kolm, Emory University, Georgia, U.S.A.

"Drug Safety in ADHD"
Presenter: Dr. Marsha Wilcox, I3 Drug Safety and Harvard Medical School
and Boston University Medical School

Belle Hudischewskyj, ICF Consulting/Systems Applications International, Inc.
"Atmospheric Pollution Forecasting"

"Classification of the Near Infrared Spectrum by TreeNet. Case Study
Related to Food Eaten in East Asia and Japan"
Presenter: Dr. Mikio Kahara, Ichinoseki National College of Technology,
Japan

"Application of CART for the Control of Bacroftian Filariasis (leading
to elephantitis and West Nile. Fever) in Andara Pradesh, India"
U. Suryanarayana Murty, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology

"Automatized Methods For Finding the Best Algorithm Setting for Modeling
Biodiversity Data in a Spatial GIS-Setting: MARS (Multivariate Adaptive
Regression Splines) and Beyond"
Presenter: Dr. Falk Huettmann, University of Alaska, Centre for Wildlife
Ecology

"Bird Flu, Investigations and Spatial Modeling of Bird Flu in Alaska,
Russian Far East and Elsewhere: Applications of the Salford Systems
Software Suite Along International Flyways"
Presenter: Dr. Falk Huettmann, University of Alaska, Centre for Wildlife
Ecology

"Experiences when applying MARS and CART in the Disciplines of
Biodiversity, Conservation and Wildlife Modeling: The GIS Link"
Falk Huettmann, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska-Fairbanks

"Data Mining for Epidemiological Research: Identifying Relationships
That Cannot Be Identified In Any Other Way"
Shenghan Lai, Johns Hopkins Medical School

Dean McKenzie, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine,
Monash University*
"Hazardous or Harmful Alcohol Use in Royal Australian Navy Veterans of
the 1991 Gulf War: Identification of High Risk Subgroups"

"Comparison of Several Tree-Based Methods to Detect Complex Gene
Interactions"
Laurent Briollais, Mount Sinai Hospital

"Drug Discovery Clinical Trials and Random Forests at Novartis"
John Warner, Novartis

"Models for Recurrence of Low Back Disorder in Industry: A Comparison of
Logistic Regression and CART"
Deborah Burr, Ohio State University School of Public Health

"Using CART to Develop a Diagnostic Tool for Erectile Dysfunction"
Joseph C. Cappelleri, Pfizer

"Evolution of High-Diversity Areas in Ecuador in the Context of Global
Climate Change"
Jesus Muņoz, Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid, Spain

"Application of Novel Tree-Based Methods to Modeling the Genetics of
Complex Disease, Finding Genotypes and Various Interactions"
Dr. Richard Olshen, Stanford University Medical School

"The Importance of CART and MARS in Environmental Fate and Risk
Assessment for Pesticides"
Cecil Dharmasri, Syngenta Crop.

"MARS and Related Techniques in Dental Biomaterials Modeling"
Stuart Gansky, UCSF School of Dentistry

"Multi-level Hybrid CART-logit Models to Predict Early Childhood Caries
with Individual, Family and Neighborhood Factors"
Presenter: Dr. Stuart Gansky, University of California San Francisco
Dental School

"A Feature Selection Algorithm with Redundant Expressed Gene Filtering
from Microarray Data. Predictive Accuracies with Random Forests"
Presenter: Dr. Jorge Martin Arevalillo, Universidad Nacional de
Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

"Maximum Predictive- Minimum Redundancy Gene Subset Selection from
Microarray Data. Predictive Accuracies with CART and Random Forests"
Jorge Martin Arevalillo, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia,
Madrid, Spain

Christopher Martius, University of Bonn
"Assessing the Sustainability of Agroforestry Systems using CART to
Model Non-linear Relationships"

"Model Drift in a Predictive Model of Obstructive Sleep Apnea"
Brydon Grant, University of Buffalo Medical School

"Using MARS for the Prediction of the Apnea-Hypopnea Index"
Brydon Grant, University of Buffalo Medical School

"Tissue Microarray Data: Random Forest Clustering. A Focus on the Use of
Random Forest Dissimilarities for Tumor Class Discovery and the

Theoretical Properties of a Random Forest Dissimilarity"
Presenter: Dr. Steve Horvath, University of California, Los Angeles

"Random Forests: Case Study Examples from Autism, Multiple Sclerosis and
Microarray Data"
Adele Cutler, Co-Developer of Random Forests.

"Linking Heterogeneous Data Sources: Using TreeNet to Develop a Model
for Classifying Subjects Linked to a Disease Registry"
Sigurd W. Hermansen, Westat, Maryland, U.S.A.