Research Assistant in Data Analysis for Medicine

6 days ago


AlAyn, United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates University Full time

Job Description
Abu Dhabi Precision Medicine Virtual Research Institute (AD PM VRI) at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences of the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU is announcing a position of research assistant in the field of data analysis of medical data and images. The overall goal of the research is to look for an association between organs’ functional and structural changes in physiological conditions (e.g., normal aging) and in pathology.

**Tasks to accomplish**:
**1. Preprocessing of medical images**:
2. Running classification, detection, and segmentation tasks (with 3dSlicer, CAT12, etc.).

**3. Preparing analytics over the preprocessed dataset**:
checking whether the dataset is versatile enough for different ML approaches; finding correlations between different features; running feature selection algorithms to find the most informative data sources (numerical vs. images.
4. Building up regression and classification models and estimating their performance metrics:
preparing a data visualization module for the qualitative and quantitative quality validation, training a deep convolutional neural net to get predictions based on 2d and 3D data, training models with spatial attention (standard and self-attention) to focus on the most valuable parts of 2d and 3d data, trying classical non-neural approaches (e.g. gradient boosting) to get predictions based on the whole dataset, adding functions for calculating ROC-AUC, error rate, precision, recall, sensitivity, specificity.
convolutional NN for classification tasks, single stage or multistage DLL detection systems, generative adversarial networks (GAN) for super-resolution and reconstruction, recurrent neural networks for automatic report generation.

Minimum Qualification
- MSc. in Computer Science or a closely related field from a recognized university.

Preferred Qualification
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely related field from a recognized university.



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