2003 Scientific Sessions Abstract Archives

To view the individual abstracts, click on the author's name. 

To access the published abstracts see the October 2004 Issue of Arch Pathol Lab Med - 2004; Vol 128: 1089-112

Othman Abdul-Karim MS
COMPARISON OF STAIN QUANTIFICATION FOR HISTOLOGICAL SPECIMENS USING SPECTROMETER AND MULTI-BAND IMAGE DATA

Stephanie Karsten, MA, CMC
AN E-MOBILE SOLUTION FOR WIRELESS ONCOLOGY CLINICAL TRIAL REPORTING

Tokiya Abe, MS
STANDARDIZATION OF STAIN CONDITION

Stephen R. Master, MD, PhD
NOVEL APPROACHES FOR SENSITIVE DETECTION OF GENE EXPRESSION CHANGES USING OLIGONUCLEOTIDE MICROARRAYS
Awarded "Best Scientific Session: Microarray and Tissue Array Analysis"

Peter Anderson, DVM, PhD
COAGULATION SERVICE WEB SITE AND HANDHELD APPLICATION PROVIDE POINT OF CARE ACCESS TO DECISION SUPPORT INFORMATION

Rafael Medina-Flores
DEVELOPMENT OF A REAL-TIME, INTRAOPERATIVE TELENEUROPATHOLOGY SYSTEM, THE UPMC EXPERIENCE

Pinky A. Bautista MS
LINEAR TRANSFORMATION OF SPECTRAL TRANSMITTANCE IN APPLICATION TO DIGITAL STAINING OF UNSTAINED TISSUE SAMPLE IMAGE

Alan K. Meeker PhD
IMPROVED SOFTWARE FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY IMAGES
Awarded "Best Scientific Session: Telepathology, Digital Microscopy and Image Analysis"

Bruce A. Beckwih, MD
AUTOMATED DEIDENTIFICATION OF PATHOLOGY REPORTS
Awarded "Best Scientific Session: Controlled Vocabularies, Decision Support and Outcome Research"

Kevin J. Mitchell, MS
GNegEx – IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF A NEGATION TAGGER FOR THE SHARED PATHOLOGY INFORMATICS NETWORK

Jules J. Berman, PhD, MD
PREDICTING TUMOR MARKER OUTCOMES WITH MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS

Tony Pan, MS
INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR DIGITAL PATHOLOGY IMAGE ANALYSIS

Jules J. Berman, PhD, MD
ZERO-CHECK, A ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PROTOCOL FOR RECONCILING PATIENT IDENTITIES ACROSS INSTITUTIONS

Ashokkumar A. Patel, MD
THE PENNSYLVANIA CANCER ALLIANCE BIOINFORMATICS CONSORTIUM (PCABC): A COMMON WEB-BASED DATA ENTRY AND QUERY TOOL FOR A STATEWIDE VIRTUAL BIOREPOSITORY

Jules J. Berman, PhD, MD
EXTRACTING GENETIC CONDITIONS THAT PREDISPOSE TO CANCER, USING THE ONLINE MENDELIAN INHERITANCE IN MAN

Satish Patel, MS
GEDA: A GENE EXPRESSION DATA ANALYSIS SUITE

Gary Blank, PhD, MS
GENERATION OF ISOLATION NOTIFICATIONS FOR PATIENTS WITH POSITIVE CULTURES OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE

Andrew Post, MD, MS
WEB-BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF A MODULAR, GENERAL PURPOSE TEMPORAL ABSTRACTION FRAMEWORK FOR PATTERN IDENTIFICATION IN CLINICAL LABORATORY DATA

Betty Yee Man Cheng, BSc
A LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF MOTIFS AND PHARMACEUTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF GPCRs
Awarded "Best Scientific Session: Bioinformatics and Data Mining"

Andrew Rabinovich, BS
UNSUPERVISED COLOR ANALYSIS OF HISTOLOGICALLY STAINED TISSUE MICROARRAYS

Roger S. Day, ScD
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR SEMI-AUTOMATING BIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL REASONING IN ONCOLOGY

Kavous Roumina, PhD
WEB-BASED MANAGEMENT IMPROVES USER ACCESS SECURITY PRACTICES FOR LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Angelo M. De Marzo
TMAJ: OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE TO MANAGE A TISSUE MICROARRAY DATABASE

Mark Routbort, MD, PhD
CAP CANCER TEMPLATES IN PRACTICE: A USER-FRIENDLY SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR CANCER REPORT ENTRY, TRANSMISSION AND AUTOMATED SNOMED ENCODING
Awarded "Best Scientific Session: Pathology Informatics Applications"

Douglas B. Fridsma, MD, PhD
ORGANIZATIONAL SIMULATION OF A CLINICAL TRIAL ERROR IDENTIFIES ERROR-PRONE PROCESSES

Gilan M. Saadawi, MD, PhD
A LIGHTWEIGHT XML EDITOR FOR CLINICAL LABORATORY PROCEDURE MANUALS

MariBeth Gagnon
MICROSCREEN: A VIRTUAL SLIDE PROGRAM USED FOR COMPUTER-BASED PROFICIENCY TESTING

Rodney Schmidt, MD, PhD
OPTIMAL IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY RESULTING REQUIRES SPECIAL DATA AND FUNCTIONALITY MODELS

Milos Hauskrecht, PhD
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STATISTICAL LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR CLASSIFICATION OF PROTEOMIC PROFILES

David B. Seligson, MD
"TMAtrix"- A WEB-BASED RELATIONAL DATABASE FOR COMPLETE TISSUE MICROARRAY DATA ADMINISTRATION

Wei He, MS
A 5-DIMENSIONAL, MEAN-SHIFT APPROACH FOR IMPROVED SEGMENTATION OF PATHOLOGICAL IMAGES

John Sinard MD, PhD
A FLEXIBLE, SCALABLE SOLUTION FOR ACQUISITION AND STORAGE OF CLINICAL DIGITAL IMAGES

Venkatesh Jitender
A BIOINFORMATICS TOOL FOR VERIFICATION OF GENE-GENE INTERACTIONS

Harpreet Singh MS
GENERIC DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR RAPID DEPLOYMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF MULTIPLE DATA COLLECTION APPLICATIONS

Drazen M. Jukic, MD, PhD
MACRO-DRIVEN REPORT ENTRY - NEXT STEP IN REPORT GENERATION

Richard Steinman MD, PhD
HOW DO LOW-LITERACY ADULTS ACCESS INTERNET HEALTH INFORMATION?
Awarded "Best Scientific Session: Oncology and Health Informatics"

Keith J. Kaplan, MD
EXPERT OPINIONS JUST A MOUSE CLICK AWAY — THE ARMY TELEPATHOLOGY PROGRAM

David Tuck, MD
FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR MICROARRAY APPLICATIONS

Laszlo Kari, MD
DIAGNOSIS OF CTCL PATIENTS WITH HIGH OR LOW TUMOR BURDENS BY DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS OF qPCR DATA

Yukako Yagi
MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGING APPLICATIONS IN PATHOLOGY