Drools 4.0 as an engine for clinical rules
Drools 4.0 (July 2007) as an execution engine for clinical logic: the Rete algorithm, a working memory of POJOs and the unresolved data-binding problem, set against Arden Syntax and GELLO.
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Why a Medical Logic Module is not really portable
Arden Syntax 2.5 separates clinical logic from the chart's application code, yet leaves access to local data inside non-standardised curly braces. GELLO, approved by HL7 in 2005, tries to close that gap by tying expressions to the RIM.
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3D Slicer: the application platform missing above ITK and VTK
Above ITK and VTK there is a missing layer: software a clinician can actually open and use. 3D Slicer occupies that layer, and the NA-MIC grant of September 2004 has just changed how it is built.
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WEKA for biomedical data classification
The state of WEKA in mid-2003: the ARFF format, the bundled classifiers (J48, NaiveBayes, SMO), and why in quantitative clinical research the validation protocol weighs more than the individual algorithm.
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ITK: a public library for medical image segmentation and registration
Technical notes on the Insight Toolkit, the C++ library funded by the National Library of Medicine under the Visible Human Project: template architecture, dataflow pipeline, CMake build and BSD licence.
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R and Bioconductor for microarray data
Within a few years R has become a practical tool for analysing high-dimensional gene-expression data. Technical notes on why a free statistical language fits microarrays, and on what the Bioconductor project is trying to standardise.
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