CBIIT Cancer Data Science Pulse Blog

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Career Confessions: A Health Information Manager’s Time in an NCI Fellowship

November 28, 2023, by Boyun Jang

Data as a Gift—A Common Theme from NCI’s First Office of Data Sharing Symposium

November 22, 2023, by Jaime M. Guidry Auvil, Ph.D.

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NCI Listens: Your Feedback on Data Sharing Challenges and Opportunities

October 2, 2023, by Subhashini Jagu, Ph.D., Mousumi Ghosh, Ph.D., Nathan Boyd, Ph.D.

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NCI Workshop Addresses Current Challenges in De-Identifying Medical Images

September 26, 2023, by Keyvan Farahani, Ph.D., Carolyn Klinger

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Former Fellow Shares NCI Experience with Geocoding and Patient Privacy

September 12, 2023, by Jennifer Moss, Ph.D.

Data Sharing Advocacy—A Cancer Survivor Advocates for Better Patient Experience

August 21, 2023, by Mr. Steve Friedman

NCI Funding Helps AI Researchers Gain Global Insight on Cancer

July 31, 2023, by Ajay Aggarwal, Ph.D., Anant Madabhushi, Ph.D.

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Semantics Series—A Deep Dive Into Common Data Elements

July 20, 2023, by Denise Warzel, M.Sc., Gilberto Fragoso, Ph.D.

A Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) on the left (A) shows a suspicious cancer lesion (dark mass marked by arrows). A deep learning-based AI algorithm helps further define this lesion as prostate cancer (B). The lesion in B is displayed as a large red mass, outlined in blue and green. The lesion in B is much larger than the one shown in A, indicating AI helped to better define the extent of the cancer than MRI alone.

Theranostics and AI—The Next Advance in Cancer Precision Medicine

June 28, 2023, by Baris Turkbey, M.D.

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Visualizing Genetic Mutations in Three-Dimensions—Pro-Tips From a Structural Biology Perspective

June 8, 2023, by Michael Sierk, Ph.D. Senior Bioinformatician, Contractor with Essential Software, Inc., Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics Branch, CBIIT and Daoud Meerzaman, Ph.D. Computational Genomics & Biomedical Informatics Branch Chief, CBIIT

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Trusting the Data—A Look at Data Bias

May 22, 2023, by Vivian Ota Wang, Ph.D.

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Complete Your Research Project with Tips from a Cancer Data Scientist

May 15, 2023, by Umit Topaloglu, Ph.D.

Career Confessions: 5 Things a Research Fellow Learned in a Cancer Data Scientist Lab

May 8, 2023, by Kun Wang, Ph.D.

Image reads "National Cancer Plan", below shows a purple box with faces faded in the background. Reads "Eight Goals", then below, Prevent Cancer, Detect Cancers Early, Develop Effective Treatments, Eliminate Inequities, Deliver Optimal Care, Engage Every Person, Maximize Data Utility, Optimize the Workforce"

NCI’s National Cancer Plan and Data’s Critical Role

May 1, 2023, by Tony Kerlavage, Ph.D., Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Ph.D., Jaime Guidry Auvil, Ph.D., Jeff Shilling

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Using Cancer Data Science to Advance Your Research

April 13, 2023, by NCI CBIIT Staff

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Job Interview Questions for Cancer Data Scientists and How to Answer Them

March 20, 2023, by Daoud Meerzaman, Ph.D.

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NCI Brings Cancer Data to Life

February 13, 2023, by Datum

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Apply for Grants to Support Novel and Standard Tools for Analyzing All of Us Program Data

February 1, 2023

Artists conception of federated learning. Shows four separate buildings linked together to form a center "brain." The idea is to show how people can be in different places and still contribute equally to research.

Federated Learning—A Solution for Democratizing Data for Cancer Research?

January 31, 2023, by Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Ph.D.

Examples of data visualization showing a circular heat map and a PCA biplot.

Visualizing Data Using Circular Heatmaps and Biplots—Pro-Tips From NCI Researchers

January 17, 2023, by Arashdeep Singh, Ph.D. Researcher, Cancer Data Science Laboratory and Sridhar Hannenhalli, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Cancer Data Science Laboratory

We’re continuing our blog series on data visualizations with a look at circular heatmaps and biplots. This blog features images and tips from Drs. Arashdeep Singh and Sridhar Hannehalli of NCI’s Center for Cancer Research.

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