{"id":4,"date":"2018-02-09T22:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philab.uwo.ca\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:37:32","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/philab.uwo.ca\/","title":{"rendered":"\u03a6 Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/sbnVIgIl.jpg\" alt=\"Public Health Informatics Lab\" width=\"382\" height=\"513\" \/>The Predictive Health Informatics Lab is led by Dr. Dan Lizotte at the University of Western Ontario. (The guy on the right.) Dr. Lizotte is jointly appointed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csd.uwo.ca\">Department of Computer Science<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwo.ca\/sci\/\">Faculty of Science<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schulich.uwo.ca\/epibio\/\">Department of Epidemiology &amp; Biostatistics<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schulich.uwo.ca\">Schulich School of Medicine &amp; Dentistry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We develop and apply machine learning and biostatistical methodology, broadly defined, to health research problems. Methods range from classification and regression to unsupervised representation learning to reinforcement learning, and problems range from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_health\">public health<\/a> to primary, secondary, and tertiary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Health_care\">healthcare<\/a>. A key component of our approach is to have all analyses be interpretable and explainable, with the goal of providing decision support for challenging problems. We strive for meaningful multidisciplinary collaboration with health researchers and stakeholders on projects that lead to new knowledge both in data science methodology and in health research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Predictive Health Informatics Lab is led by Dr. Dan Lizotte at the University of Western Ontario. (The guy on the right.) Dr. Lizotte is jointly appointed to the Department of Computer Science in the Faculty of Science and the Department of Epidemiology &amp; Biostatistics in the Schulich School of Medicine &amp; Dentistry. We develop &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philab.uwo.ca\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u03a6 Lab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philab.uwo.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philab.uwo.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philab.uwo.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philab.uwo.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philab.uwo.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/philab.uwo.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/philab.uwo.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philab.uwo.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}