LASER GRAPHICS VISUALIZATION TOOLS FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH

这个项目的主要目标是开发新的软件工具 利用激光图像来帮助临床研究者 临床研究数据集中的重要信息。 I期 活动，与调查人员合作进行， 哈佛公共卫生学院，确定了一个特定的新颖的软件 概念，一个“多图可视化工具”，似乎是 在探索多变量数据以检测差异方面非常有用 在癌症研究中的亚群之间。 拟议的第二阶段工作将使用统计图形概念 和软件架构，以开发完整的软件 原型，将通过与 来自多个临床研究中心的研究人员。 完成后， 该原型将成为私人资助的第三阶段的基础， 商业化的努力，使这种能力广泛提供给 临床研究社区。 预计该项目的主要技术创新是 面向激光打印机的可视化软件开发 展示大量临床研究数据。 主要 健康相关的贡献，希望是临床一代 通过提高调查员的能力， 通过新的软件，注意到临床数据中的重要模式。

The primary objective of this project is to develop new software tools that utilize laser graphics to help the clinical investigator perceive significant information in clinical research datasets. The Phase I activities, performed in collaboration with investigators at the Harvard School of Public Health, identified a specific novel software concept, a "MultiGraph Visualization Tool", that appears to be distinctly useful in exploring multivariate data to detect differences between subpopulations in cancer studies. The proposed Phase II work will use the statistical graphics concepts and software architecture from Phase I to develop a full software prototype which will be evaluated and refined through interaction with investigators from several clinical research centers. At completion, the prototype will become the basis of a privately-funded Phase III commercialization effort to make this capability broadly available to the clinical research community. The major technical innovation in this project is expected to be the development of visualization software oriented towards laser printer presentations of large volumes of clinical research data. The major health-related contribution is hoped to be the generation of clinical insights through the increased ability of the investigator, assisted by the new software, to notice important patterns in clinical data.