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This is a synergistic partnership
bringing together expertise in health software and systems
engineering and manufacturing engineering. The project
relies on the application of advanced software methods to
progress the discipline of health informatics and decision
support systems, and so requires the integration of
expertise from these three fields and the direct
participation of end-users partners in the proposed work.
The Consortium partners have strong research track records
and have established international reputations for their
work. They have worked together on successful project in the
past so have already developed a good working relationship.
This previous experience also means that we will not face
the communication difficulties common in multi-disciplinary
projects. In addition, both partners have extensive
experience of working with industry and are committed to the
exploitation of research.
The following researchers who have
agreed to participate in the consortium in an advisory
capacity, and by granting access to patient data and, in a
controlled manner, to individual patients:
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Dr. S. O?Reilly, consultant
oncologist at the Royal Liverpool and Clatterbridge
Hospitals, who will provide appropriate access to
patients data and individual patients. Dr. O?Reily has
expressed strong support for the proposal and will
commit time and data resources towards the
implementation and evaluation of support tools for
clinicians and for patients. Most importantly, she will
be involved in the management of the research from the
start.
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Mr. Ric Swindell, Principal
Statistician at Christie Hospital, who has extensive
expertise in the design and evaluation of statistical
models for medical inference, and has provided patient
data as well as expert guidance throughout the previous
five years of research into survival modelling.
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Professor Mark Bellis, from the
Public Health section of the School of Health at John
Moores University, who is an expert in performance
evaluation of healthcare and leads the North West Public
Health Observatory.
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Prof. P.J.G. Lisboa is in the Statistics
and Neural Computing Research Group in the School of
Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the Liverpool
John Moores University. The group?s research is focused
on the application of decision support methodologies to
medical and business applications. Long-standing
collaborative research with industrial and healthcare
partners has built a basis of expertise in the design
and performance evaluation of statistical and neural
network inference models, as well as models for
segmentation and visualisation of high-dimensional data.
In this proposal, that expertise is combined with
experience in computer-based methodologies for the
design, implementation and evaluation of interactive
multi-media systems, counting also upon direct user
involvement from a range of technical and clinical
specialists.
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Prof. A. Taleb-Bendiab is a member of the
Distributed Multimedia Systems Engineering Research
Groups, and leader of the self-adaptive research group
in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at
the Liverpool John Moores University. The principal
interests of the group include development of methods
and supporting tools for distributed intelligent systems
for collaborative work. The main research interests
includes methodologies for organisational and process
improvement, systems modelling, adaptive software
engineering, decision-support systems, database
visualisation and software agents. Also, has other
relevant expertise in the area of legacy data and
systems evolution.
We will also consult with Dr. P. Maguire
at the Cancer Research Centre at Christie Hospital, who has
published on the psychological and other key issues
surrounding communication with cancer patients. Together,
the consortium members provide expertise on all areas of the
proposed research.
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Project Title
Towards a Disciplined Approach to
Integrating Decision-Support Systems for Breast Cancer Care
Activities
Sponsors
Polaris House,
North Star Avenue,
Swindon. SN2 1ET
Partners
Wilmslow Road,
Manchester, M20 4BX.
Clatterbridge Road
Bebington
Wirral. CH63 4JY
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University
James Parsons Building
Byrom Street
Liverpool
L3 3AF.
Tel (+44) 1524 593801
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