Monthly Archives: March 2016

NYC, Media and Technology: What’s Hot

NYC, Media and Technology: What’s Hot

MARCH 24 @ 12:00 PM1:00 PM in N928

JUSTIN HENDRIX

NYC Media Lab

Founded in 2010, NYC Media Lab is dedicated to driving innovation and ultimately job growth in media and technology by facilitating collaboration between the City’s universities and its companies. Comprised of a consortium including New York City Economic Development Corporation, New York University, Columbia University, The New School, CUNY, and Pratt Institute, NYC Media Lab’s goals include generating research and development, knowledge transfer, and talent development across all of the City’s campuses. Justin will describe NYC Media Lab, its projects, and the curiosities of its member companies.

Justin Hendrix connects companies seeking to advance digital media technologies with university capabilities in order to drive collaborative innovation. Before joining NYC Media Lab, Hendrix was Vice President, Business Development & Innovation for The Economist Group in the Americas, where he directed the Group’s innovation process, including prototyping, testing, and commercializing new digital media business concepts. Prior to this role, Hendrix directed brand marketing and communications and ran The Economist’s thought leadership events business in the Americas. He is a regular writer and speaker on media & innovation. Hendrix holds a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William & Mary and a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Brooklyn.

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March 24
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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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VENUE

N928
300 Jay St., Room N928
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Phone:
718-260-5170
Website:
http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/deptsites/cst

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Computer Systems Technology Colloquium Series
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(718) 260-5170
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Website:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/cstcolloquium

Bio-inspired Computation Approach for Tumor Growth with Spatial Randomness Analysis of Kidney Cancer Xenograft Pathology Slides

Bio-inspired Computation Approach for Tumor Growth with Spatial Randomness Analysis of Kidney Cancer Xenograft Pathology Slides

MARCH 10 @ 12:00 PM1:00 PM

AYDIN SARIBUDAK

Electrical Engineering Department, City College of New York, City University of New York

In our research, we analyze digitized images of Hematoxylin-Eosin (H&E) slides equipped with tumorous tissues from patient derived xenograft models to build our bio-inspired computation method, namely Personalized Relevance Parameterization of Spatial Randomness (PReP-SR). Applying spatial pattern analysis techniques of quadrat counts, kernel estimation and nearest neighbor functions to the images of the H&E samples, slide-specific features are extracted to examine the hypothesis that existence of dependency of nuclei positions possesses information of individual tumor characteristics. These features are then used as inputs to PReP-SR to compute tumor growth parameters for exponential-linear model. Differential evolution algorithms are developed for tumor growth parameter computations, where a candidate vector in a population consists of size selection indices for spatial evaluation and weight coefficients for spatial features and their correlations. Using leave-one-out-cross-validation method, we showed that, for a set of H&E slides from kidney cancer patient derived xenograft models, PReP-SR generates personalized model parameters with an average error rate of 13:58%. The promising results indicate that bio-inspired computation techniques may be useful to construct mathematical models with patient specific growth parameters in clinical systems.

Aydin Saribudak  received his Bachelor of Science degree, in 2005, from Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey. After his graduation, he worked as software developer and researcher in telecommunication field for more than 5 years. Aydin is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the City College of the CUNY. His interests include biologically inspired computation algorithms, artificial intelligence, and their applications to personalized mathematical models for tumor growth and anti-cancer therapy.

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Date:
March 10
Time:
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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VENUE

N928
300 Jay St., Room N928
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Phone:
718-260-5170
Website:
http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/deptsites/cst

ORGANIZER

Computer Systems Technology Colloquium Series
Phone:
(718) 260-5170
Email:
Website:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/cstcolloquium

Slides for today’s talk on improving interface modularity in legacy Java software through automated refactoring