• Jérémie Bernard

    Undergraduate intern
    Faculté des sciences et de génie
    Université Laval

  • Charles Gagnon

    Undergraduate intern
    Faculté des sciences et de génie
    Université Laval

  • Title of the research project
    Title to be determined
    Description

    Working on enhancing the services of the PARADIM platform, which focuses on medical image annotation, reuse, and analysis.

    Developing and optimizing features for efficient management and analysis of medical images.

    Integrating new tools and extensions to improve the platform's functionality and user experience.
     

    Title of the research project
    Title to be determined
    Description

    I work on improving the services of the PARADIM platform, which focuses on the annotation, reuse and analysis of medical images. The objective is to develop and optimize existing functionalities to have effective management and analysis of medical images. This involves the integration of new tools and extensions, to improve the platform's functionality and the user experience.

  • Youna Le-grand

    Undergraduate intern
    Faculté des sciences et de génie
    Université Laval

    Student
    Directeur.e(s) de recherche
    Philippe Després
    Start date
    Title of the research project
    Title to be determined
    Description

    Working on enhancing the services of the PARADIM platform, which focuses on medical image annotation, reuse, and analysis.

    Developing and optimizing features for efficient management and analysis of medical images.

    Integrating new tools and extensions to improve the platform's functionality and user experience.
     

  • Title of the research project
    Confidentiality-preserving synthetic data generation from administrative healthcare databases
    Description

    Synthetic healthcare datasets are useful to support the development of data analysis and machine learning techniques in healthcare, by offering access to representative data to experiment and generate models from while mitigating the issues associated with dealing with highly sensitive data related to human subjects. However, the performance and usefulness of data analysis and machine learning methods applied depend on the quality of these synthetic datasets and their representativity of the phenomenon to model.

    Title of the research project
    Implementation of interpretation techniques on a neural network for prognosis prediction for prostate cancer
    Description

    As tools derived from artificial intelligence are used more frequently in medicine and health-related domains, understanding their predictions becomes increasingly important when determining the trustworthiness of a prediction. 

    Title of the research project
    Computational model of cerebral aging bridging nano, micro, and mesoscales
    Description

    One of the primary challenges of diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) lies in its progression through two silent decades. The lack of symptoms in patients during this time evidently hinders their chance of suspecting the disease, or merely being granted a precautionary brain scan. Moreover, the initial endogenous signs and noticeable symptoms often coincide with aging individuals without any neurological disease diagnosis.

    Title of the research project
    Confidentiality guarantees of a new method to generate synthetic data
    Description

    It is often difficult, even sometimes impossible, to share denominalized data between organisations and researchers due to ethical constraints regarding participant confidentiality. Synthetic datasets could facilitate data sharing. However, many current methods, which use multiple imputation (MI) techniques for missing data, lower the analysis potential and the quality of the results.

    Title of the research project
    Sustainability of health professionals' intention to have serious illness conversations about advance care planning at 1 and 2 years after training: a cluster randomized trial
    Description

    While some studies report the positive effects of continuing professional development (CPD) on clinical behaviour, few address the sustainability of these effects as well as the types of approaches that could improve this sustainability.

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