Jun 15, 2013 — Independent Component Analysis (ICA) — I’m sure that you’ve heard of the cocktail party problem. The simplest version of the problem posits that you have two people talking in a room with two microphones, each recording a mixed signal of the two voices. The challenge... Read more

Jun 14, 2013 — Bias and Variance Tradeoff — When we talk about bias vs. variance tradeoff, we are venturing into the field of learning theory that broadly thinks about how to best match particular data to a method, and how to improve performance of a model by understanding... Read more

Jun 14, 2013 — Neuroimaging and Neurochemistry of Autism — This article can be found at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22284793 There are multiple causes of autism, and we have to rely on behavioral definitions because we can’t define biomarkers Possible causes: Alteration in common signaling pathways Alteration of neurotransmitters, implications during brain development... Read more

Jun 14, 2013 — Modeling Biomedical Systems (BMI 210) — Comprehensive Study tools for BMI 210: Methods for modeling biomedical systems and for making those models explicit in the context of building software systems. Emphasis is on intelligent systems for decision support and Semantic Web applications. Topics: knowledge representation, controlled... Read more