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Projects

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Projects - current

aneurIST	Integrated Biomedical Informatics for the Management of Cerebral Aneurysms	Supported by EU Sixth Framework IST Programme, 2006-2009
ASPIC	Argumentation Service Platform with Integrated Components. The development of knowledge-based services based on semantically rich logic formalisms called Argumentation Systems.	Supported by EU Sixth Framework IST Programme, 2004-2007
CREDO	A clinical trial of PROforma technology in improving consistency, quality and safety in the care of cancer patients	Supported by Cancer Research UK (01/2003-2005).
REACT Risks, Events, Actions and Consequences over Time	REACT is a patented technology for assisting in the creation and enactment of complex care plans. Applications are under development, initially for the management of breast cancer.	Supported by Cancer Research UK (phase I) and the ESRC and EPSRC PACCIT programme - People at the centre of communications and information technology) (phase II : 2001-2003).

Projects - past

HOMEY Home monitoring through intelligent dialog system	Development and deployment of telemedicine services based on an IDS (Intelligent Dialog System).	Supported by the EU 5th Framework IST Programme (Information Society Technologies) (2001-4).
LISA Leukaemia Information System and Advice	Development and deployment of decision-support tools to improve survival in childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.	Supported by Cancer Research UK, 2001-4.
COGENT Computational modelling and symbolic simulation	COGENT focuses on new techniques and methods for cognitive modelling. COGENT is a tool for building executable cognitive models using a graphical environment interfaced to a symbolic modelling language.	A collaboration between the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) and Birkbeck College, London; supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (1996-2001).
ERA Early Referrals Applications	Early Referrals Application for patients with suspected cancer. Developmment and evaluation of 12 web-enabled early referral cancer guidelines.	The ERA application was developed by the ACL. ERA is now being piloted by the UK NHS Information Authority.
CADMIUM Computer Aided Decision Making and Image Understanding in Medicine	CADMIUM focuses on two areas of medical computing: digital image processing and decision support systems. A prototype radiology workstation has been developed, along with demonstrator applications in mammography and the management of neuroblastoma.	Co-ordinated by CHIME , the Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education, University College, London, and part-funded by the EPSRC. (CADMIUM I: 1993-96; CADMIUM II: 1998-2001.)
RAGs Risk Assessment and Genetic counselling	The RAGs project developed a system to assess genetic risk in breast and ovarian cancer, and to support professional counsellors helping people make personal healthcare decisions in these areas. RAGs applied decision theories and technologies developed in the StAR and PROMPT projects, and cognitive models and theories of risk perception from the COGENT project.	A collaboration between the ACL and Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) units in London, Oxford and Edinburgh, and supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council programme in cognitive engineering and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (1996-2000).
PROMPT PROtocols for Medical Procedures and Therapies	PROMPT developed and evaluated components for a clinical care station (principally the PROforma clinical guideline authoring and enactment environemnt and the PICARD electronic patient record).	PROMPT, a successor project to Dilemma , was co-ordinated by the ACL and funded under the EC Fourth Framework Telematics Applications Programme (1996-9). Main collaborators were the Institut Bergonié (Bordeaux) and Erasmus University (Rotterdam).
StAR New Techniques for Risk Assessment	StAR (Standardised Argument Report) applied theoretical work undertaken by the ACL on "argumentation" (as a technique for knowledge based reasoning under uncertainty) to the problems of risk assessment and communication. The practical focus of the work was in assessing the risk of chemical compounds causing cancer, but the technology developed was designed to be of general applicability.	Supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Department of Trade and Industry (1993-6).
RED Rigorously Engineered Decisions	RED investigated techniques for developing high integrity and provably safe computer software. To achieve this, established formal methods from software engineering were combined with novel AI techniques for dynamic reasoning about the safety of clinical actions. RED complemented Dilemma and PROMPT by providing the theoretical underpinning to the clinical applications developed in these projects.	Part-funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Department of Industry, and co-ordinated by Lloyds' Register (1992-95).
DILEMMA Decision Support in Primary Care, Oncology and Shared Care	Dilemma followed up work carried out under the EU LEMMA project on the development and application of a generic technology for supporting healthcare professionals in making clinical decisions and managing patients in general practice, hospital care and shared care. The main application focus was oncology, but substantial applications were also built in cardiology and general practice.	Dilemma was a collaboration of eight European partners, part-funded under the EC 3rd Framework Health Telematics programme (1992-95). It was co-ordinated by the ACL.