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Health Care Informatics Support Of A Simulated Study, Zeinab Salari Far

Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this project is to assess the value of REDCap (Harris, 2009) by conducting a simulated breast cancer clinical trial and demonstration. REDCap is a free, secure, web-based application designed to support data capture for research studies. To assess REDCap's value, we conducted a simulation of a clinical trial study designed to compare the use of two new technologies for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment with current best practice breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. We call the trial, "Real-Time Operating Room BC Diagnostic Treatment (RORBCDT)". The RORBCDT clinical trial is designed to assess the value of a new …

Question Classification In The Cancer Domain, Adam Kurmally

Theses and Dissertations

We are investigating question classification for restricted domains with the broader goal of supporting mixed-initiative interaction on mobile phones. In this thesis, we present the development of a new domain-specific corpus of cancer-related questions, a new taxonomy of Expected Answer types, and our efforts toward training a classifier.

This work is the first of its kind in the cancer domain using a corpus consisting of real user questions gathered from cQA websites, and a taxonomy built from that corpus. Our goal is to create software to engage newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients in question-answering dialogs related to their treatment options. …

A Configuration Management System For Software Product Lines, Cheng Thao

Theses and Dissertations

Software product line engineering (SPLE) is a methodology for developing a family of software products in a particular domain by systematic reuse of shared code in order to improve product quality and reduce development time and cost. Currently, there are no software configuration management (SCM) tools that support software product line evolution. Conventional SCM tools are designed to support single product development.

The use of conventional SCM tools forces developers to treat a software product line as a single software project by introducing new programming language constructs or using conditional compilation. We propose a research conguration management prototype called Molhado …

Integrating "Code Smells" Detection With Refactoring Tool Support, Kwankamol Nongpong

Theses and Dissertations

Refactoring is a form of program transformation which preserves the semantics of the program. Refactoring frameworks for object-oriented programs were first introduced in 1992 by William Opdyke. Few people apply refactoring in mainstream software development because it is time consuming and error-prone if done by hand. Since then, many refactoring tools have been developed but most of them do not have the capability of analyzing the program code and suggesting which and where refactorings should be applied. Previous work discusses many ways to detect refactoring candidates but such approaches are applied to a separate module. This work proposes an approach …