Surgical educators have recommended individualized coaching for acquisition, retention and improvement of expertise in technical skills. Such one-on-one coaching is limited to institutions that can afford surgical coaches ...

Human language artifacts represent a plentiful source of rich, unstructured information created by reporters, scientists, and analysts. In this thesis we provide approaches for adding structure: extracting and linking ...

In radiotherapy, it is necessary to characterize dose over the patient anatomy to target areas and organs at risk. Current tools provide methods to describe dose in terms of percentage of volume and magnitude of dose, but ...

In the past few years, Deep Learning has become the method of choice for producing state-of-the-art results on machine learning problems involving images, text, and speech. The explosion of interest in these techniques ...