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Former Member
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I live in the next township as "Help Defeat Cancer". My step dad is a professor also at a university that helped with that project. I haven't heard anything since the project ended. How do we know CEP is another project that will finish and we don't hear from after it's done with? I pass RWJUH that helped HDC almost everyday.... it's as if everything went silent when they finished.
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Maybe they are silent but they are not inactive.
----------------------------------------The latest news accessible from WCG's Research pages is this, by Dr David Foran (April 2008). Latest information passed to us in the CA room is that work is progressing normally (November 2008). I have never been involved in scientific publication but, from what I read, it seems that it is a considerable effort too. So it takes time. And if you are fearing that things fall in oblivion once crunching is finished you must know that WCG is going on having regular "meetings" with scientists after the crunching phase until publication of the results. It is part of the deal. Cheers. Jean. |
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Former Member
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Yeah, through my step dad, I know of Dr Foran. Whenever I got New Brunswick, NJ, I park in one of Cancer Institute's parking lot. Just seems like as soon the grid's project ended.... so did their advertisement.
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Just seems like as soon the grid's project ended.... so did their advertisement. If this advertisement was meant to attract new crunchers to their project that makes sense. We do complain when shops advertise goods that they no longer have on the shelves, no? Or did you expect a new sign saying "Hey guys, we have a tough work digesting that huge pile of results and next we will have to write all those long publications."?  Cheers. Jean. |
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Former Member
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Hi Crashtiger,
We the scientists have the ultimate interest in getting great scientific results out of the project. With so much data to analyze things might take time. Analyzing results is not an "automatized" task, but requires human time and might be time consuming. Scientific work is a rigorous activity that requires a lot of double-checking and testing. We will post links the publications and data associated with them as soon as we start making discoveries with the project. Sometimes just getting a publication through the refereeing process takes up to a year or more. We will try to keep people posted in our "News" section at http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu as we get through some milestones. So far, the project is not even a week old :) The CEP team. |
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Former Member
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crashtiger, these are the publications Help Defeat Cancer are working on:
Lin Yang, Peter Meer, David J. Foran. Pixel-Wise Multiple Class Segmentation Using Histogram Descriptors Over Mean-Shift Patches. IEEE Proceedings on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Accepted for publication. To be presented at the International Conference to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June, 2007. Lin Yang and David J. Foran. A Variational Framework for Partially Occluded Image Segmentation Using Coarse to Fine Shape Alignment and Semi-parametric Density Approximation. IEEE Proceedings on Image Processing. Accepted for publication. To be presented at the International Conference to be held in San Antonio, Texas, September, 2007. Lin Yang, Peter Meer, Lauri A. Goodell, Michael D. Feldman, and David J. Foran. High-Throughput Breast Cancer Analysis on the Grid. Proceedings on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Accepted for publication. To be presentated at the International Conference to be held in Brisbane, Australia, October, 2007. Bonnie H. Hall, Wenjin Chen, and David J. Foran. A Clinically Motivated 2-Fold Framework for Quantifying and Classifying of Immunohistochemically Stained Specimens.Proceedings on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Accepted for publication. To be presented at the International Conference to be held in Brisbane, Australia, October, 2007. Gabriela Niculescu, John L. Nosher, David J. Foran. Non-rigid Registration of the Liver in Consecutive CT Studies for Assessment of Tumor Response to Radiofrequency Ablation. IEEE Proceedings of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Accepted for publication. To be presentated at the International Conference to be held in Lyon, France, August, 2007. In addition to this, they have got funding for the next step of their research: The central objective of this proposal is to build a deployable, grid-enabled clinical decision support system to enable researchers and physicians to automatically analyze and classify imaged cancer specimens with improved diagnostic and prognostic accuracy. Proof-of-concept for the proposed system was conducted using the core reference library of expression signatures that was generated as part of the HDC project. Seems the scientists are still very, very busy. |
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Former Member
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Yeah, through my step dad, I know of Dr Foran. Whenever I got New Brunswick, NJ, I park in one of Cancer Institute's parking lot. Just seems like as soon the grid's project ended.... so did their advertisement. Dear crashtiger, We remind the researchers all the time about the importance of keeping everyone informed. But it would be really good to hear it directly from someone who contributes their PC to the cause, such as yourself. You are uniquely placed to help improve the communication from the researchers so that they understand that timely and informative status updates, after they finish running on World Community Grid, is important. Since you know Dr. Foran and since you live in the area, why don't you drop in on him and ask him where things stand on his project and mention to him that more frequent updates would be a good thing. Let us know what you find out. Thank you. |
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