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ReUnite (tm) for Android released

2013-03-25 16:53:51

ReUnite (tm) app for post-disaster family reunification was released for Android devices. It is available at the link below.

CEB Staff Honors -- October 2011

2011-10-17 06:00:00

Dr Dina Demner-Fushman was elected to the membership of the American College of Medical Informatics for major contributions to research in natural language processing and information management for biomedicine. Dr Daniel Le received the Regents Award for Scholarship or Technical Achievement in recognition for leading the development of the Publisher Data Review System to automatically extract bibliographic data from full-text articles, frequently missing in citations sent to NLM by publishers.

CEB Paper #2 in IEEE TITB

2011-08-31 07:00:00

Dr. Rahman's paper, "A Learning-Based Similarity Fusion and Filtering Approach for Biomedical Image Retrieval Using SVM Classification and Relevance Feedback," was the second most viewed article in IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine in July 2011.

MyDelivery: A Novel Method for Information Delivery

2010-05-21 09:00:00

June 2010. CEB's MyDelivery project team has released its client and server source code for facilitating large file exchange.

The Reunite: iPhone App

2010-04-29 08:00:00

Reunite is developed as a part of ongoing research in post-disaster family reunification research at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Going Mobile: Information When and Where You Need It

2010-03-17 07:00:00

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, the head of the systems division at Motorola, took a stroll that changed history. From a busy New York City sidewalk, he made the first portable cellular telephone call, opening a new era in telecommunications.

CBMS 2010 Special Track

2010-03-09 08:00:00

CEB Researchers (Dr. Antani and Mr. Long) will chair Special Track on "Image Informatics in Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine" at 23^rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) 2010.

Found in Haiti iPhone App

2010-02-25 11:00:00

The iPhone app, "Found in Haiti", is designed to help provide structured information by email to the "Haiti Earthquake People Locator" service (http://hepl.nlm.nih.gov) offered by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The app is primarily intended for aid and relief workers in Haiti, but may also be used by...

NIH Research Festival 2009

2009-10-06 12:00:00

NIH Research Festival on October 6 - 9, 2009 at Natcher Conference Center

CEB's Boundary Marking Tool Used For Biopsy Research

2009-09-01 09:00:00

Doctors in NCI's Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch (HREB) are using the Boundary Marking Tool developed by NLM's Communications Engineering Branch to support a multi-year study aimed at devising a more effective strategy for selecting biopsy sites on the uterine cervix for women undergoing colposcopy.

CBMS 2009 Special Track

2009-04-01 05:00:00

CEB Researchers (Dr. Antani and Mr. Long) will chair Special Track on "Image Processing Methods and Tools for Biomedica l Research and Clinical Medicine" at 22^nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) 2009.

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CEB Researcher wins Federal 100 Award

2009-02-10 12:00:00

Rodney Long of CEB is a recipient of the 2009 Federal 100 award named by the 1105 Government Information Group and Federal Computer Week. List of winners [PDF]

CEB Paper Award at AMIA 2008

2008-11-25 08:00:00

CEB paper on Nursing Home Screener wins a Distinguished Paper Award at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Symposium, November 2008.

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NIH Research Festival 2008 Photos

2008-10-21 15:00:00

NIH Research Festival on October 14 - 17, 2008 at Natcher Conference Center

Internet2 2008 IDEA Award Presented to CEB

2008-04-25 13:00:00

The winners of the 2008 Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) Awards program include the U.S. National Library of Medicine's "Geography-independent Cancer Research Tools." The award recognizes leading innovators who have created and deployed advanced network applications that enable transformational progress in research, teaching, and learning. Awards were presented at Internet2's 2008 Spring Member Meeting held in Arlington, Virginia on April 22, 2008.

The 51st Meeting of The LHNCBC Board of Scientific Counselors

2008-04-15 07:00:00

The 51st meeting of the LHNCBC Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) to be held April 10-11, 2008, in the NLM Board Room. Dr. George Thoma presented "Automation to Accelerate the Production of MEDLINE." to the LHNCBC Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) on Thursday, April 10, at 9:00 a.m.

SPIE Medical Imaging 2008: Technical Workshop

2008-04-07 07:00:00

Thomas Deserno (Aachen University of Technology, Germany) and Rodney Long will be moderating a panel discussion at SPIE Medical Imaging 2008 on "Content-Based Image Retrieval: Major Challenges for Medical Applications".