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be said that this WWW site is often several months out of date.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
A
B
C
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).
D
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.
E
F
Prof.
John
Forbes,
Faculty of Health,
Univ. of Newcastle,
Australia.
G
H
I
Information theory:
Min. Enc. Length Inference, MDL and MML are
based in information theory. See also quantum info. theory.
J
K
David Kissane,
cancer information,
selected
publications
and
research.
L
M
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.
N
O
Ockham, William of (circa. 1280 or 1285 till
circa. 1347 or 1349, apparently 10th April 1349),
Ockham's razor
and town of Ockham.
P
Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopaedia of.
Q
Quantum information theory -
Quantum
Computer Technology
(U Melb,
U NSW,
U Qld).
R
S
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.
T
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.
U
Unsupervised learning,
mixture modelling
(or mixture modeling)
and/or
clustering
using MML:
Snob
- see, e.g.,
Wallace and Dowe (2000)
(and applications).
V
W
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.
X
Y
Z
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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David L. Dowe,
Monash University, Australia,
18 Sep. 2003, etc.
Copying is not permitted without expressed permission from
David L. Dowe.