Congratulations to Clarissa Krämer (MSc.), Susanne Schmitt (MSc.), and Prof. Dr. Franz Rothlauf on receiving the Best Student Paper Award at the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, from May 19-21, 2025.
Their award-winning paper, "Using Machine Learning for the Fusion of Tumor Records on a Real-World Dataset" focuses on consolidating multiple records describing the same tumor into a single record for each tumor. They used an artificial neural network and compared its performance with that of a deterministic, rule-based approach. They used a tabular, real-world dataset that included colorectal, breast, and prostate cancer.
Key findings were that
- Artificial Neural Networks outperform the deterministic rule-based approach.
- The performance depends on the number of features and the distribution of data.
- The predictive performance increases with a lower number of categories within a variable and a more balanced dataset.
Read the paper here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40380540/
