Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis of Cancer Data

描述(由申请人提供)：这里提出的研究将会发展， 实施、评估和传播下一代跨平台、 支持可视化的地理空间分析方法和工具 与癌症相关的公共卫生研究和政策。该计划的主要目标是 工作是开发一种协调的视觉、统计和计算 一种扩展当前探索、识别、调查和 解释癌症发病率和死亡率的空间模式，以及它们 与人口统计和卫生政策的关系。特别要注意的是 评估遗漏和差错的可能性的新机制 这一分析建议的方法和工具将有助于整合 流行病学、人口学和卫生政策数据，使研究人员和 分析师将从整体上看待社区，他们的健康状况 癌症，以及与卫生政策的关系(如筛查、可获得性)。一个 将使用一系列概念验证案例研究来演示和评估 开发的方法和工具，同时解决特定的问题 与阿巴拉契亚癌症网络(ACN)相关的癌症研究问题。 正式的可用性评估方法将在整个 以人为中心的软件设计、实现和部署流程。这个 这些评估的目标将是确保方法和工具 开发的产品既可供癌症研究人员使用，也可供癌症研究人员和 他们打算支持其工作的分析师。我们将充分利用 ACN和空间一体化中心内的外联工作 社会科学(CSISS)，传播开发的软件并提供 对以下领域的癌症研究和政策团体进行使用培训 阿巴拉契亚和更远的地方。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The research proposed here will develop, implement, assess, and disseminate the next generation of cross-platform, visually-enabled geospatial analysis methods and tools to support cancer-related public health research and policy. The primary objective of the work is to develop a coordinated visual, statistical, and computational approach that extends current abilities to explore, identify, investigate, and explain spatial patterns of cancer incidence and mortality, and their relationships to population demographics and health policy. Of special note are new mechanisms to assess the potential for errors of omission and commission in that analysis The proposed methods and tools will facilitate the integration of epidemiological, demographic, and health-policy data, enabling researchers and analysts to take a holistic view of communities, their health with respect to cancer, and relationships to health policy (e.g. screening, accessibility). A series of proof-of-concept case studies will be used to demonstrate and assess the methods and tools developed and, at the same time, to address specific cancer research questions relevant to the Appalachia Cancer Network (ACN). Formal usability assessment methods will be applied throughout the human-centered process of software design, implementation, and deployment. The goal of these assessments will be to ensure that the methods and tools developed are both accessible to and useable by the cancer researchers and analysts whose work they are intended to support. We will take full advantage of outreach efforts within the ACN and the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS), to disseminate software developed and to provide training in its use to the cancer research and policy communities within Appalachia and beyond.