Anthony Nguyen
Research Scientist, Project Leader (Cancer Information Processing and Reporting)
Contact
The Australian e-Health Research Centre
Level 5 - UQ Health Sciences Building 901/16
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
Herston QLD 4029 Australia
Tel: +61 7 3253 3637
Fax: +61 7 3253 3690
Anthony.Nguyen@csiro.au
Themes
- e-Health
Projects
- Cancer Information Processing And Reporting (CIPAR)
Science Area
- Semantic Data Management
Biography
Anthony Nguyen is the project leader for the Cancer Information Processing and Reporting (CIPAR) project at the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre. This project aims to build computer aided clinical cancer information processing and reporting systems to assist with the consistent and timely data collection and facilitate comparative analysis, benchmarking, and reporting of health data respect to cancer.
Anthony received the B.Eng. (Aerospace Avionics) degree with first class honours in 1999, and a Ph.D. degree in the area of image processing in 2005 from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. During his Ph.D., he was additionally involved (within the Speech, Audio, Image and Video Technologies research program at QUT) in various applied research contracts for clients such as DSTO, Office of Naval Research, and Boeing Australia. Since completing his PhD, he has worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow for the CRC for Construction Innovation within the Faculty of IT at QUT.
Anthony joined The Australian e-Health Research Centre in April 2006 as a Post Doctoral Fellow and later as a Research Scientist from July 2008 in the area of health informatics, conducting research in the Cancer Information Processing and Reporting (CIPAR) project (and formerly the Cancer Stage Interpretation System (CSIS) project). His research interests include multimedia processing and mining, information retrieval, ontology use, pattern recognition and machine learning.
Academic Qualifications
| 2005 | PhD Queensland University of Technology, Image Processing |
| 1999 | BEng (Hons 1) Queensland University of Technology, Aerospace Avionics |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2009-present | Project Leader, Cancer Information Processing and Reporting, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, ICT Centre, CSIRO, Australia |
| 2008-present | Research Scientist (Health Informatics), The Australian e-Health Research Centre, ICT Centre, CSIRO, Australia |
| 2006-2008 | Post Doctoral Fellow, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, ICT Centre, CSIRO, Australia |
| 2005-2006 | Post Doctoral Fellow, CRC for Construction Innovation, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2004-2005 | Research Fellow, Speech Audio Image & Video Tech. Research Group, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2004-2005 | Telecom Laboratory Development Coordinator, School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2001-2005 | Teaching Assistant, School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2000-2005 | PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 1999-2004 | Research Assistant/Senior Research Assistant, Speech Audio Image and Video Tech. Research Group, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
Summary of Science & Technical Output
| Books/Book chapters | 0 |
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| Journal | 7 |
| Refereed Conference/Workshop | 32 |
| Technical/Client Reports | 3 |
| Invited Presentations | 1 |
| Patents | 0 |
Grants
| 2011 | Cancer Institute NSW (1 year grant AU$104,000) |
Student Supervision
| 2011-Present | Timothy Chappell, PhD in Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2010-Present | Sun (Kimi) Yue, Masters of Information Technology (Research), Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2010/2011 | Tim Chappell, Summer vacation scholar, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2010 | Rodrigo Gutiérrez, CSIRO Internship (4 months - Commercial Plan), University of Queensland (Business School), Australia |
| 2010 | Horacio González, CSIRO Internship (4 months - Commercial Plan), University of Queensland (Business School), Australia |
| 2008 | Monika Dujmovic, Industrial Trainee (2 months), School of Health Sciences, Community Services and Biotechnology, Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada |
| 2007/2008 | Phuong Nguyen, Summer vacation scholar, Flinders University, Australia |
| 2007/2008 | Emma Brunton, Summer vacation scholar, Monash University, Australia |
Science Citizenship
| 2011 | Member, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA; since 2009) |
| 2011 | AMIA Working Group member (Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Semantics, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; since 2009) |
| 2011 | Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (MIEEE; since 1999) |
| 2011 | Secretary, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Queensland Chapter |
| 2011 | Electronic Communications/Marketing Officer, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Queensland Chapter (EMBS; since 2008) |
| 2011 | Guest Lecture, Clinical Information Retrieval (Search Engine Technology unit, QUT) |
| 2011 | Program Committee, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Health |
| 2011 | Reviewer, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA; IF=3.078) |
| 2011 | Reviewer, Applied Clinical Informatics |
| 2011 | Reviewer, Image Communication (IF=1.186), |
| 2011 | Reviewer, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC; since 2008) |
| 2011 | Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP; since 2008) |
| 2011 | Review Panel, PhD Confirmation of Candidature Seminar: Semantic Search as Inference: Applications in Health Informatics (Bevan Koopman, QUT) |
| 2011 | Review Panel, PhD Confirmation of Candidature Seminar: Robust Automatic Speaker Diarisation and Attribution (Houman Ghaemmaghami, QUT) |
| 2010 | Treasurer, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Queensland Chapter (since 2008) |
| 2010 | Program Committee, International Congress on Image and Signal Processing and the International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (CISP'10-BMEI'10) |
| 2010 | Reviewer, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IF=1.645) |
| 2010/2007 | Reviewer, e-Journal in Health Informatics |
| 2010 | Review Panel, PhD Final Seminar: Fast and Accurate Phonetic Spoken Term Detection (Roy Wallace, QUT) |
| 2010 | Review Panel, PhD Confirmation of Candidature Seminar: Driver Face Processing in Vehicles (Chew (Chris) Sien Wei, QUT) |
| 2010 | Reviewer, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) |
| 2009 | Steering Committee Member, BreastScreen Queensland Digital Planning & Implementation (since 2008) |
| 2009 | Reviewer, Cancer Informatics |
| 2008 | Steering Committee Proxy Member, BreastScreen Queensland Digital Planning & Implementation (since 2007) |
| 2008 | Reviewer, Age and Ageing (IF=1.919) |
| 2007 | Reviewer, Pattern Recognition Letters (IF=0.952) |
| 2005 | Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IF=1.511) |
Top 10 Publications
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| A. Nguyen, M. Lawley, D. Hansen, R. Bowman, B. Clarke, E. Duhig and S. Colquist, "Symbolic Rule-based Classification of Lung Cancer Stages from Free-Text Pathology Reports", Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 440-445, Jul/Aug 2010 |
| I. McCowan, D. Moore, A. Nguyen, R. Bowman, B. Clarke, E. Duhig and M-J Courage, "Collection of Cancer Stage Data by Classifying Free-text Medical Reports", Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 736-745, 2007 |
| A. Nguyen, J. Moore, M. Lawley, D. Hansen, S. Colquist, "Automatic Extraction of Cancer Characteristics from Free-Text Pathology Reports for Cancer Notifications," Health Informatics Conference, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 117-124, 1-4 August 2011 |
| A. Nguyen, M. Lawley, D. Hansen, S. Colquist, "Structured Pathology Reporting for Cancer from Free Text: Lung Cancer Case Study," Health Informatics Conference, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 69-72, 24-26 August 2010 |
| A. Nguyen, M. Lawley, D. Hansen, R. Bowman, S. Colquist, "Automated Metastasis Stage Classification for Lung Cancer Patients using Free Text Radiology Reports," in American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 November 2009 |
| A. Nguyen, M. Lawley, D. Hansen, S. Colquist, "A Simple Pipeline Application for Identifying and Negating SNOMED Clinical Terminology in Free Text," in Health Informatics Conference, Canberra, Australia, pp. 188-193, 19-21 August 2009 |
| A. Nguyen, V. Chandran, and S. Sridharan, "Importance Prioritisation in JPEG 2000 for Improved Interpretability," Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 1005-1028, 2004 |
| A. Nguyen, V. Chandran, S. Sridharan, and R. Prandolini, "Interpretability performance assessment of JPEG2000 and Part 1 compliant region of interest coding," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 808-817, November, 2003 |
| D. Tjondronegoro, J. Zhang, J. Gu, A. Nguyen, S. Geva, "Integrating Text Retrieval and Image Retrieval in XML Document Searching," in Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: INEX 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3977, 2006 |
| V. Chandran, S. Elgar & A. Nguyen, "Detection of mines in acoustic images using higher order spectral features," IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 27, pp. 610-618, 2002 |
Number of citations
| ISI | 38 |
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| Google Scholar | 118 |