Medical links

Welcome to David Dowe's medicine and medical links page. This page discusses primarily medical and oncological cancer information and research.

There are also links to related topics and to people doing related research. Please e-mail me if you'd like to be included.


[See also Ray Solomonoff (1926-2009) 85th memorial conference (Wedn 30 Nov - Fri 2 Dec 2011), 1st Call for Papers.]


Oncological links

Oncological links - information, support organisations and/or appeals
American Cancer Society: www.cancer.org, Clinical Trials, info' for professionals, publications, Medical and Clinical Journals, etc.
Australian Cancer Research Foundation (www.acrf.com.au), Enter site, make donation; Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, Westmead, Sydney.
Breast Cancer Knowledge Online: http://www.sims.monash.edu.au/research/eirg/bcko.html - an online breast cancer resource.
www.TheBreastCancerSite.com: Visit here to give a free donation to breast cancer research.
Breast health, general information on breast cancer, Breast Cancer treatment and Neutropenia.
The Cancer Council New South Wales: www.cancercouncil.com.au, 13-11-20.
The Cancer Council Victoria: http://www.cancervic.org.au/index.htm, 13-11-20; and links: Australian cancer organisations, Other Australian links and International links.
Cancer Dictionary: http://www.cancervic.org.au/cancer1/patients/wordbook/index.html.
www.can-survive.org, Weekend Retreats and Becoming A Volunteer.
CanTeen: www.CanTeen.org.au.
www.familycancer.com.au (re-directs to www.tumourgenetics.com.au), links and services. Bev Warner (03) 9508-1363.
Gamma knife (gamma knife) surgery.
Gawler Foundation - although it must be said that this WWW site is often several months out of date. If you want to meet them, then telephone.
www.Health-cares.net (Health care guides) and cancer.
Leukaemia: www.leukaemia.com.
Medline and PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed), http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez.
www.tumourgenetics.com.au (re-directs from www.familycancer.com.au) links and services. Bev Warner (03) 9508-1363.
U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM): www.nlm.nih.gov, NLM Library Services: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/libserv.html and NLM Research Programs.
(http://igm.nlm.nih.gov: http://igm.nlm.nih.gov seems to do nothing.)
Pink Ribbon Day - (The Cancer Council Victoria) raising money for breast cancer research.
Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (www.prostate.org.au).
(Imran Khan's) Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (www.ShaukatKhanum.org.pk) and Imran Khan cancer appeal.
Sun Smart (www.SunSmart.com.au), Sunburn and skin cancer, etc.
www.SydneyCancer.com.au.
http://tcrc.acor.org: The Testicular Cancer Resource Centre.
The Yul Brynner Head and Neck Cancer Foundation (www.headandneck.org).

Oncological links - research, databases, clinical trials, gene therapy, etc.
American Cancer Society (www.cancer.org) Clinical Trials and Find a clinical trial.
www.CancerTrialsHelp.org (Coalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups, Inc.) - learn about clinical trials and search for a trial.
National Cancer Institute (NCI) Physician Data Query (PDQ) - finding clinical trials.
www.ClinicalTrials.gov.
Human Genome Project Information and What is gene therapy? (discussion of retroviruses, adenoviruses, adeno-associated viruses and Herpes simplex viruses).
American Society of Gene Therapy (www.asgt.org) and Molecular Therapy journal.
Australasian Gene Therapy Society, The Journal of Gene Medicine, education and sites of interest.
Cancer gene therapy journal (searchable) and tables of contents; Cancer articles, journal links and information (searchable).
CAncer Research in Australia (CARA Database) - including clinical trial and other links and keyword searches, prepared by the Ludwig Institute's Melbourne branch.
Centre for Developmental Cancer Therapeutics Inc.: http://www.cdct.org/indexnav.asp and trials, etc.
Clinical Proteomics Program Databank - Proteomic Patterns, apparently from the NIH.
Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) for Cellular Growth Factors: www.ludwig.edu.au/CRC-CGF.
The Journal of Gene Medicine and the Journal of Gene Medicine Clinical Trial site (mentioning at least 636 clinical trials), with
(links to) searchable Interactive Database and Charts and Statistics.
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (7 countries, 10 cities) and Melbourne branch (old links: branches, Melbourne branch).
Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland: www.iosi.ch/en/iosi.html.
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute: http://www.petermac.org/research.
(Imran Khan's) Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Pakistan.
U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) NLM Research Programs: www.nlm.nih.gov/resprog.html.
Cytopia - New Drugs for Immune Disease and Cancer: http://www.cytopia.com.au.

Oncological links - (would-be) remedies
Inner Glow (remedies), T(r)ewantin, Qld., Australia
www.NexCura.com.

Oncological data links
van't Veer et al. breast cancer data-set: http://www.rii.com/publications/2002/vantveer.htm.
Notterham's data: http://microarray.princeton.edu/oncology.
Alon's data: http://microarray.princeton.edu/oncology/affydata/index.html.
Agrawal's data: http://cancer.tigr.org/c_pooling.shtml.
Ramaswamy's data: http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/cgi-bin/cancer/datasets.cgi.
Kent Ridge Bio-medical Data Set Repository (http://sdmc.lit.org.sg/GEDatasets/Datasets.html), Genes Expressions Data Mining and Bio-medical Data Analysis.

Oncological articles and papers
The Age (Melbourne, Australia), Good Weekend (lift-out) cover story, Sat. 13 Dec. 2003, pp18-22, "The new war on cancer".
(In brief: ... first non-hereditary breast cancer gene discovered ... .) "Gene for non-hereditary breast cancer is discovered", New Scientist, 6 Dec. 2003, p21.
Skeptic (Skeptic), What's the Harm?, "Alternative medicine is not everything to gain and nothing to lose", Scientific American, Dec. 2003, p26.
(Medical treatment) Genentech developed the first commercial drug that stops blood vessel growth in tumours, Scientific American, Dec. 2003, p40.
(Public health and epidemiology) Merck Research Laboratories created a vaccine that may help eliminate cervical cancer, Scientific American, Dec. 2003, p41.
(Cancer-killing viruses.) "Tumor-busting viruses", Scientific American, Oct. 2003, pp50-57.
(T-rays spot cancer under the skin.) (Medical imaging.) "T-rays see the cancers that others miss", New Scientist, 30 Aug. 2003, p11.
(Laser gives cells a health check.) (Medical diagnostics.) "Surfing cells get a health check", New Scientist, 30 Aug. 2003, p15.
"The cancer revolution." (New insights into what really drives cancer at its most basic level are challenging our whole view of the disease.) New Scientist, 23 Aug. 2003, pp36-39.
(Editorial - It is time to think again about the risks and benefits of sunshine.) "How much is too much? We can't ignore new evidence that a little sunshine does you good." New Scientist, 9 Aug. 2003, p3.
(Cover story.) "Bring me sunshine." New Scientist, 9 Aug. 2003, pp30-33.
(Debate over prostate cancer screening.) "Sensitive prostate test bad for men", New Scientist, 2 Aug. 2003, p7.
(Internal radiation risks challenged.) "Experts can't agree on internal radiation risk", New Scientist, 19 July 2003, p5.
(Reassurance for frequent flyers.) "Frequent flyers needn't worry about getting cancer from cosmic rays", New Scientist, 19 July 2003, p7.
(Far out therapy. Anti-matter joins the battle against cancer.) "The antiproton cure", New Scientist, 31 May 2003, pp36-37.
(Cancer's deadliest cells.) "Not all cancer cells are equal", New Scientist, 1 March 2003, p16.
"Double trouble for gene therapy", New Scientist, 25 Jan. 2003, p12.
(Out-of-body radiotherapy for liver.) "A brave new step for medicine as an organ is treated outside the body", New Scientist, 21/28 Dec. 2002, p7.
(Gene therapy takes on cancer.) "Gene therapy gets the body to attack cancer", New Scientist, 21/28 Dec. 2002, p10.
"Kill the healthy cells to strangle cancer", New Scientist, 9 Nov. 2002, p22.
(Histories. Cancer death rates rose when surgeons cleaned up. So William Coley infected hopeless cases with fever diseases - and often it worked. Is it time to re-examine Coley's toxins?) "Dr Coley's famous fever", New Scientist, 2 Nov. 2002, pp54-55. Further reading: "Spontaneous regression: a hidden treasure buried in time", by S.A. Hoption Cann et al., Medical Hypotheses, vol. 58 issue 2, pp115-119 (2002).
(Could cellphones switch on genes?) "Cancer cell study deepens fears over cellphone safety", New Scientist, 26 Oct. 2002, p9.
(Mutating HIV to death.) "Viruses meet their mismatch", New Scientist, 26 Oct. 2002, p20.
"Cool glove stops tired athletes 'hitting the wall'", New Scientist, 26 Oct. 2002, p22 [" ... This could increase the effectiveness of cancer therapy, says Nikolchev, because cancer cells are more vulnerable to chemotherapy and radiation at higher temperatures."].
(Mutating HIV to death.) "Viruses meet their mismatch", New Scientist, 26 Oct. 2002, p20.
(Sugar rush. Once dismissed as mere decoration, sugar molecules turn out to be vital components ...) "Sugar rush", New Scientist, 26 Oct. 2002, pp34-38.
(Immune cless taught to target cancer.) "Cells given lessons in how to fight cancer", New Scientist, 12 Oct. 2002, p24.
Physics Today, Sept. 2002. Special issue: Physics Fighting Cancer.
(Targeting cancer.) "Trick your body into killing tumours", New Scientist, 24 Aug. 2002, p15.
"Clue to how power lines could increase the risk of cancer", New Scientist, 10 Aug. 2002, p7.
"Killing cancer in a hail of bullets", New Scientist, 10 Aug. 2002, p16.
"Safe or sorry", New Scientist, 22 Jun. 2002, pp34-37.
"Microwaving cancer - Turning up the heat on tumours makes treatment much more effective", New Scientist, 25 May 2002, p13.
"Invaders seek out the enemy within", New Scientist, 25 May 2002, p13 (see also "Tumor-busting viruses", Scientific American, Oct. 2003, pp50-57).


Other bioinformatics, genomics and biotechnology links and notes
19th genetics congress: www.geneticscongress2003.com, Melbourne, Australia.
AusBiotech: www.ausbiotech.org.
Biotechnology Australia: www.biotechnology.gov.au.
Biotechnology in Queenland, Australia: www.iie.qld.gov.au/biotechnology.
Biotechnology in Victoria, Australia: www.biotechnology.vic.gov.au.
Bone Marrow Donor Institute, Australia (www.bmdi.org.au).
CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation): www.csiro.au, Australia.
Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (Commonwealth Serum Laboratories): www.csl.com.au.
DNA Data Bank of Japan (www.DDBJ.nig.ac.jp) and National Institute of Genetics.
European Bioinformatics Institute, research and databases.
Hereditary Disease Foundation: www.hdfoundation.org.
Merck, Sharp and Dohme - The Neuroscience Research Centre: www.msd-nrc.co.uk.
U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
U.S. National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke: www.ninds.nih.gov.
Society for Neuroscience: http://www.sfn.org (and http://apu.sfn.org).
Cytoscape.
Gene Ontology Consortium.
Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium.
The Center for the Advancement of Genomics.


Addictions, problem gambling, etc.
www.al-anon.org/australia - "Hope and help for families and friends of alcoholics".
Problem Gambling Victoria (www.problemgambling.vic.gov.au), research and data.


Addison's Disease
Addison's disease symptoms (http://endocrine-disorders.health-cares.net/addisons-disease-symptoms.php).


Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Association (www.alz.org), Alzheimer's Disease Education & Referral Center (www.alzheimers.org), Alzheimer's Australia (www.alzheimers.org.au), Alzheimer Research Forum (www.alzforum.org).


Arthritis
Arthritis Research taskforce (www.arthritisresearch.com.au).


Asthma
Asthma Australia (www.asthmaaustralia.org.au) and Asthma Victoria (www.asthma.org.au).
National Asthma Council Australia (www.NationalAsthma.org.au) and NAC Virtual Roadshow (www.NationalAsthma.org.au/roadshow).


Cancer
See all the oncological links and stuff above.


Cutaneous Vasculitis
Cutaneous Vasculitis, from The Handbook of Dermatology & Venereology (3rd Edition).
See also Vasculitis.


Eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, etc.
The Butterfly Foundation - supporting Australians with eating disorders.
Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria (www.eatingdisorders.org.au), Australia.


Happiness and Wellbeing
The relevance of happiness to health and wellbeing seems to becoming increasing well accepted and known. The relevance of happiness to happiness is (ipso facto) apparent. Throughout this WWW page, you will find mention of the terms happiness and well being (or well-being or wellbeing) - please feel free to search for them and/or follow any relevant links.


Lupus, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Discoid Lupus
Alliance for Lupus Research (www.LupusResearch.org): Prevent, treat and cure lupus through medical research.
Lupus Australia Foundation: http://www.lupusvic.org.au.
Lupus nephritis.
Systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE, www.auntminnie.com/ScottWilliamsMD2/Chest/Collagenvasc/SLE/SLE.htm) and www.auntminnie.com.


Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy Association (Muscular Dystrophy Australia, www.mda.org.au).


Vasculitis
Vasculitis and about arthritis, Vasculitis, an information booklet.
See also Cutaneous Vasculitis.


Encyclopaedias, encyclopedias
MedlinePlus (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html) Encyclopedia: cancer.
Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org): cancer, lupus erythematosus (or systemic lupus erythematosus (or SLE)), medicine, oncology.


Other medical, health and happiness links
The Heart Failure Forum 2004 - improving outcomes in chronic care.
The Heart Foundation (Australia): www.heartfoundation.com.au.
Medecins sans frontieres (Doctors without borders): http://www.msf.org and http://www.msf.org.au.
The Howard Florey Institute: www.hfi.unimelb.edu.au and links.
The Murdoch Childrens' Research Institute: http://murdoch.rch.unimelb.edu.au.
The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (www.qimr.edu.au) cancer links.
The Something Fishy Website on Eating Disorders (www.something-fishy.org): Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Signs and Symptoms and Physical Dangers.
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute: www.wehi.edu.au and press releases.
The Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) (www.waimr.uwa.edu.au).
Cerebral Palsy Education Centre Inc., Australia, Info and services, Contact or request info, What Is Conductive Education? and Make A Donation.
Critical Incident Stress Management Foundation Australia Inc. (www.cismfa.org.au).
Dr Craig Hassed, "New frontiers in medicine : the body as the shadow of the soul", Hill of Content, Melbourne, Australia, 2000; xix, 142 p. In this book, Western medicine seems to meet a lot of traditional Eastern sense and a lot of common sense. One of the things I like about this book is its fairly thorough referencing to academic studies (which largely re-inforce common sense).
"Shiny Happy People?" (We're healthier and wealthier than ever, so why are so many of us so unhappy? Mark Honigsbaum goes searching for the feelgood factor), Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia), Sunday Magazine, Sun. 25 July 2004, pp28-29.
(In the shadow of fear.) "In the shadow of fear", New Scientist, 6 Sep. 2003, pp30-35.
"Friend or foe?" ["The SARS virus didn't kill its victims directly - they died because their immune systems went into overdrive. ..."], New Scientist, 6 Sep. 2003, pp36-37.
The Age (Melbourne, Australia), Good Weekend (lift-out), Sat. 30 Aug. 2003, pp22-26, `Can meditation heal whatever ails you? The mounting scientific evidence for the power of "om".'
All in the mind (Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman: Toward a Science of Wellbeing) with Natasha Mitchell (ABC Radio National Science), Sunday 17 August 2003.
abc.net.au/compass (several relevant episodes are mentioned below):
Healing the Soul, Sunday August 17 2003 (Summary: Surveys "expressive therapies" and other novel therapeutic techniques for healing the inner self.);
Miracle Statues, Sunday July 20 2003 (Summary: Statues that weep, statues that move, statues that drink milk, statues that heal: what's this all about?);
Between Laughter and Tears, Sunday July 13 2003 (Summary: Is laughter the best medicine? Does comedy possess a religious dimension?);
Yoga, Sunday June 29 2003 (Summary: Once on the fringe, yoga is now definitely mainstream in workplaces, community centres, and gyms. For 4000 years yoga has brought health and peace to its practitioners. But in the west, is it in danger of losing its soul?);
abc.net.au/compass (several relevant episodes are mentioned above).
"Eat To Live Longer", Weekend Australian magazine, 2-3 Sept 2006, pp34-35. [It lists: 1. yoghurt, 2. spinach, 3. salmon, 4. macadamia nuts, 5. blueberries, 6. red delicious apples, 7. broccoli, 8. soy beans, 9. oats, 10. dark chocolate.]
(Drug dramatically reduces scarring.) "Drug smooths the way to healing", New Scientist, 21 Jun. 2003, p14.
It Ain't Necessarily So (Part 3 of 3) Sunday February 2 2003 (Summary: Part three of a 3-part series where British journalist and former Beirut hostage John McGrath looks at the controversial debates over the archaeology of the early history of Israel and Judah and its challenge to The Bible.);
It Ain't Necessarily So (Part 2 of 3) Sunday January 26 2003 (Summary: Part two of a 3-part series where British journalist and former Beirut hostage John McGrath looks at the controversial debates over the archaeology of the early history of Israel and Judah and its challenge to The Bible.);
It Ain't Necessarily So (Part 1 of 3) Sunday January 19 2003 (Summary: Part one of a 3-part series where British journalist and former Beirut hostage John McGrath looks at the controversial debates over the archaeology of the early history of Israel and Judah and its challenge to The Bible.)
(Mixed year for stem cell research.) "Stem cell work forges ahead as the politicians squabble", New Scientist, 21/28 Dec. 2002, p21.
"The future's bright" ["We know more about the brain than ever, so why are cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's and ...], New Scientist, 7 Dec. 2002, pp57-58.
(Spotting heart disease early.) "Early warning of bad heart", New Scientist, 30 Nov. 2002, p15.
(Artificial organs.) "Making tissue that just keeps growing", New Scientist, 30 Nov. 2002, p20.
(Genes can come true.) "Genes that can come true" [After a decade that has seen both breakthrough and tragedy, the science of gene therapy is finally taking off. And it will be worth all the effort, says Helen Phillips.], New Scientist, 30 Nov. 2002, pp30-33.
(The $1000 genome.) "Your very own sequence", New Scientist, 12 Oct. 2002, pp12-13.
(Transformers. You can't teach an old cell new tricks - or can you? ...) "Transformers", New Scientist, 12 Oct. 2002, pp39-41.
(The anthrax bug's cunning strategy.) "Anthrax toxin silences immune cells' alarm call", New Scientist, 7 Sep. 2002, p18.
"The best drugs come in small packages" [People with diabetes might need fewer injections.], New Scientist, 7 Sep. 2002, p19.
"Pets train your kids' immune system", New Scientist, 7 Sep. 2002, p24.
"Genetic light switch", New Scientist, 7 Sep. 2002, p24.
Better Brains - How Neuroscience will enhance you. Scientific American, Sep. 2003.
(Electron damage to RNA.) "Fatal attachments" [Extremely low energy electrons can wreck DNA.], Scientific American, Sep. 2003, pp14-15.
(Electrodes help stroke victims walk.) "Good legs teach bad legs to walk", New Scientist, 31 Aug. 2002, p4.
(A new strategy to beat malaria.) "New lead in hunt for malaria vaccine", New Scientist, 31 Aug. 2002, p14.
"Why grey matters", New Scientist, 31 Aug. 2002, pp44-47.
"New schizophrenia theory", New Scientist, 10 Aug. 2002, p13.
"Secrets of a long life revealed", New Scientist, 10 Aug. 2002, p14.
(How our brains forget.) "You must remember this ...", New Scientist, 3 Aug. 2002, p14.
(Censoring bad genes.) (Censors of the genome.) "Censors of the genome" [Biologists have been surprised to discover that most animal and plant cells contain a built-in system to silence individual genes by shredding the RNA they produce. Biotech companies are already working to exploit it.], Scientific American, Aug. 2003, pp26-33.
(Stem cells could be key to long life.) "Getting tough on ageing", New Scientist, 20 Jul. 2002, p20.
"The art of healing", New Scientist, 22 Jun. 2002, pp38-41.
Happiness, produced by Stan Correy (ABC Radio National Background Briefing), Sunday 1 July 2001.
www.BetterHealth.vic.gov.au (Better Health) - quality consumer health information for Australians.
Beyond Blue - the national depression institute: http://www.beyondblue.org.au and www.ybblue.com.au (- a youth depression awareness campaign), and www.bipolar.com.au.
fitness2live.com.au.
Journal of Happiness Studies (and here, and here).
Lifeline (Australia) [telephone (crisis) counselling, (crisis) telephone counselling]: 13 11 44.
Melbourne City Mission (www.MelbourneCityMission.org.au), WWW site and homelessness campaign.
Mensline Australia (www.menslineaus.org.au) ``supports men who are dealing with family and relationship difficulties, particularly surrounding family break-down or separation''.
Mental Health (Monash University), Mental Illness Fellowship (www.mifellowship.org), SANE Australia (www.sane.org) and Panic Online.
www.PositiveWomen.org.au (Positive Women - Supporting Women Living with HIV/AIDS)
Research Matters (www.ResearchMatters.net) research issues of health and illness. Previous research, publications and current projects.
Vic. Health: http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au.
World Database Of Happiness.
www.bbc.co.uk/happinessformula: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/happiness_formula
www.MedicineUncharted.org: MedicineUncharted.org - broadening health horizons.


Conferences (not listed above)
18th World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education, 26-30 April 2004, Melbourne, Australia.


Funding sources
Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (www.nhmrc.gov.au).
Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation (``The main objective of the Foundation is to promote medical research, primarily for the benefit of veterans' and their dependants.'') (www.siredwarddunlop.com.au) and research.


Minimum Message Length (MML) data analysis links
Calendar of Machine Learning, RUUG, CSSE, Monash Univ. MML talks and
CSE455 Learning and Prediction II: MML Data Mining (formerly CSC423 Learning and Prediction course), CSSE, Monash Univ.
Information, Statistics and Induction in Science (ISIS) conference, Aug. 1996.
Minimum Message Length (MML).
"Minimum Message Length and Kolmogorov complexity", Comp. J., Vol 42, No. 4 (1999), pp270-283, by C. Wallace and D. Dowe.


Related links and, below, People interested in medicine, oncology and/or analysing such data
Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the Web: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Resources.
Bayesian Nets using MML, with decision trees in the internal nodes.
Bayesian Net Repository (or Bayes Net Repository) - relatedly, see also here, here (and here) and here.
Bayesian Statisticians worldwide (was here), a link re Rev. Thomas Bayes and a link to a small drawing of Rev. Thomas Bayes.
Boosting Research Site: boosting.org.
Clustering, mixture modelling (or mixture modeling or finite mixture models) and/or unsupervised learning using MML: Snob (and applications) - see, e.g., Wallace and Dowe (2000).
Data collections and Vlad's KD and data mining page.
Decision trees and decision graphs using MML.
Minimum Message Length (MML).
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Laureates: 1901, ..., 2005.
Occam's razor links: Minimum Encoding Length Inference is an operational form of Ockham's razor.
Probabilistic prediction, probabilistic prediction competition and Gaussian prediction competition for Australian football, and history.
(Econometric) Time series using MML.


People interested in medicine, oncology and/or analysing such data - and related links
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CAncer Research in Australia (CARA Database) - including links and searches of researchers, etc.; prepared by the Ludwig Institute's Melbourne branch.
CDMS.
Clustering, mixture modelling (or mixture modeling) and/or unsupervised learning using MML: Snob - see, e.g., Wallace and Dowe (2000) and applications (and theory).
Norman Cousins (1915-1990): editor and writer (www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/cousins.html) - the power of belief (www.potentialsmedia.com/NormanCousins.html).
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David Dowe and (with C. S. Wallace): "Minimum Message Length and Kolmogorov complexity" Comp. J., Vol 42, No. 4 (1999), pp270-283; D. Dowe's Evidence-based medicine talk (Jan. 2007) on "MML and statistically consistent invariant (objective?) Bayesian probabilistic inference"; and other publications.
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Prof. John Forbes, Faculty of Health, Univ. of Newcastle, Australia.
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Information theory: Min. Enc. Length Inference, MDL and MML are based in information theory. See also quantum info. theory.
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David Kissane, cancer information, selected publications and research.
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Dean McKenzie's publications.
Microarray (DNA) data analysis using MML: Tan, Dowe & Dix (2007) (also here).
www.MDL-research.org, people, reading, demonstrations and related topics. (MDL came 10 years, 6 journal papers and 1 Ph.D. thesis after Chris Wallace's MML.)
Christina Mitchell and Intracellular signalling and cancer.
Mixture modelling (or mixture modeling), clustering and/or unsupervised learning using MML: Snob - see, e.g., Wallace and Dowe (2000) (and applications).
Minimum Message Length (MML), which precedes MDL by 10 years, 6 journal papers and 1 Ph.D. thesis. For a survey, see, e.g.,
  • C. S. Wallace and D. L. Dowe (1999), "Minimum Message Length and Kolmogorov complexity", Comp. J., Vol 42, No. 4 (1999), pp270-283 and/or
  • Wallace, C.S. (2005) [posthumous] Book: Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum Message Length, Springer (Series: Information Science and Statistics), 2005, XVI, 432 pp., 22 illus., Hardcover, ISBN: 0-387-23795-X (and link to table of contents, chapter headings and more) and/or
  • Dowe, Gardner & Oppy (December 2007), "Bayes Not Bust! Why Simplicity is no problem for Bayesians", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS): Abstract, full text, .pdf; doi:10.1093/bjps/axm033 [and an accepted, 2006, earlier, near-final version of the paper. See also here.].
    MML and DNA microarray data analysis.
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    Ockham, William of (circa. 1280 or 1285 till circa. 1347 or 1349, apparently 10th April 1349), Ockham's razor and town of Ockham.
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    Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopaedia of.
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    Quantum information theory - Quantum Computer Technology (U Melb, U NSW, U Qld).
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    Claude Shannon ("father of information theory")'s obituary (and another obituary), 1916-2001.
    Snob (software): mixture modelling using MML (and applications and theory).
    Ray Solomonoff's biography and publications.
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    Peter Jing Tan; and P. J. Tan and D. L. Dowe (2003), "MML Inference of Decision Graphs with Multi-Way Joins and Dynamic Attributes", Proc. 16th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'03), Perth, Australia, 3-5 Dec. 2003, Published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 2903, Springer-Verlag, pp269-281.
    Peter Tischer.
    Alan Turing (1912-1954), developer of (Universal) Turing Machines, among many other things. Sites maintained by Andrew Hodges and dcs.st-and.ac.uk; The Turing archive for the history of computing (maintained by Jack Copeland and Gordon Aston); and image of Alan Turing.
    A.M. Turing's (1950) "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Mind, 59, pp433-460 - which is the paper which introduced the imitation game or "Turing Test".
    Turing Machine simulator: http://wap03.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/weber1/turing/tm.html and documentation.
    Virtual Turing Machine (VTM) and Virtual Turing Machine 2 (VTM2), by Paul Ming.
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    Unsupervised learning, mixture modelling (or mixture modeling) and/or clustering using MML: Snob - see, e.g., Wallace and Dowe (2000) (and applications).
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    Chris Wallace's publications, including "Minimum Message Length and Kolmogorov complexity" (with D. L. Dowe), Comp. J., Vol 42, No. 4 (1999), pp270-283; and his (posthumous, 2005) MML book: Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum Message Length, Springer (Series: Information Science and Statistics), 2005, XVI, 432 pp., 22 illus., Hardcover, ISBN: 0-387-23795-X. (Link to table of contents, chapter headings and more.)
    Jim Warren (Dr James R. Warren) and Diabetes information online.
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    WWW search engines
    www.Google.com.au.


    Miscellaneous, other, links
    Do-goody sites: Feeding the world (www.TheHungerSite.com), www.TheBreastCancerSite.com, www.TheChildHealthSite.com, www.TheRainforestSite.com and www.TheAnimalRescueSite.com.

  • Please e-mail me if you would like to know more.
  • This page is http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/medical/medicine.html.
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    Copying is not permitted without expressed permission from David L. Dowe.