A Surgical Approach to Data Science at UPMC

Presenter: Reza Dadashzadeh (advisor: Dr. Matthew Rosengart)

Dr. Dadashzadeh will provide updates on his current projects:

• Watchful Waiting for Incisional Hernias: A Large Single-Institution Descriptive Analysis: A deep-dive into the methodology implemented in identifying an all-inclusive cohort of patients with incisional hernias and incarcerations and some preliminary descriptive statistics.
• Predicating Pathologic Pneumatosis Intestinalis using Convolutional Neural Networks and Radiomics: An innovative use of imaging informatics to assess for ischaemic events
• Lessons Learned from Using Machine Learning to Challenge MELD for Liver Transplant Waitlist Mortality Prediction
• Identifying Incidental Findings from Radiology Reports for Trauma Patients: An Evaluation of Automated Feature Extraction Methods
• Good Eyes vs AIs: Surgeon’s Assessment vs Risk Calculators