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Computational Intelligence for Biopattern Analysis in Support of eHealthcare (BIOPATTERN)

Project Id: IST-2002-508803

Abstract: BIOPATTERN is a groundbreaking project that integrates key elements of European research to underpin eHealth. The goal is to develop a pan-European, intelligent analysis of a citizen's bioprofile; to make the analysis of this bioprofile remotely accessible to patients and clinicians; and to exploit bioprofile to combat major diseases such as cancer and brain diseases.

Keywords: Biomedical Informatics, Medical Informatics, computational intelligence, biopattern, neuroinformatics, bioinformatics

Description

Objectives of the project: Today, the ability to produce vast amounts of bio-data has vastly outstripped our ability to sensibly make use of the data for decision making.
A key objective of BIOPATTERN is to address the problem of fragmentation in this key area by bringing together key researchers to create a critical mass of specialists to promote the development of computational intelligence methods underpinning e- Healthcare. The idea is to move away from local solutions to local problems and towards European wide solutions to European problems.
The main objectives are:
• Integration - to tackle and reduce fragmentation of existing research capacities in this area
• Virtual Research Institute - to create a new research community
• New opportunities - to identify how bioprofile could be exploited for healthcare, such as disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment
• Roadmap - to identify gaps in knowledge, key challenges and to initiate joint activities to address them.
• Standards - To identify technical and ethical issues on which guidelines and standards should be based with regard to the acquisition, transmission and analysis of a bioprofile
• Societal challenges - To contribute to finding solutions to some of the demanding societal challenges inhealthcare.

Project description: BIOPATTERN is a Network of Excellence (NoE) project within the ICT
for Health. It integrates key elements of European research to enable Europe to
become a world leader in eHealth.
BIOPATTERN proposes to provide novel computational intelligent techniques for biopattern vanalysis and a pan-European integrated, intelligent analysis of an individual’s bioprofile. Information from distributed databases will be made available, securely, over the Internet and bioprofiles analysed using on-line algorithms, libraries and processing facilities.
BIOPATTERN integrates the research efforts of 30 institutions across Europe to tackle and reduce fragmentation in the new field of biopattern and bioprofile analysis. It brings together leading researchers in medical informatics and bioinformatics from academia, the healthcare sector and industry in a new way, harnessing expertise and information to put Europe at the forefront of eHealth.
BIOPATTERN aims to identify how bioprofile could be exploited for individualised healthcare such as disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Its ultimate goal is to become a Virtual Research Institute recognised as a world-leading scientific resource.

Expected Results & Impacts: • Identifying how bioprofile could be exploited for healthcare, such as disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment on an individual basis.
• Integration of the research expertise of 30 partners. This would reduce fragmentation of existing research capacities in this area and strengthen European excellence in this field.
• Creation of a new research community. BIOPATTERN will provide a dynamic platform for academics, healthcare professionals and industrialists to network in the area of biomedical informatics (medical informatics + bioinformatics) to advance knowledge in biopattern and bioprofile analysis to underpin new generation of eHealth systems.
• Contribution to finding solutions to some of the demanding societal challenges: target clinical areas are cancer and brain diseases.
• Contribution to the development of new standards and guidelines in areas such as acquisition of bio-data, bio-data representation, evaluation and benchmarking techniques and interfaces for biomedical informatics web services and tools.
• Identification of technical, ethical and legal issues and principles on which guidelines and standards should be structured and based with regard to the acquisition, transmission and analysis of a bioprofile.
• Development of commercially exploitable prototype eServices to support early clinical diagnosis and care of subjects at risk of major diseases such as cancer and dementia and brain injury early in life.
• Spreading excellence within and beyond the partners. BIOPATTERN
will regularly organise workshops, training events to spread excellence and to raise public awareness.
• Using and disseminating knowledge widely and providing SMEs access to new knowledge to increase innovation and competitiveness and by making resources ( techniques, software tools, data, reports, best practice etc) accessible to the academic,
scientific and industrial communities.

Coordinator

University of Plymouth

Contacts

Emmanuel Ifeachor[PPL-200701-009]
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General information

Timetable: From 01/2004 to 12/2007

Instrument: Networks of Excellence (NoE)

Website: [www.biopattern.org]

Budget

Total cost: € 12,800,000.00

Grants: € 6,400,000.00 [EC]

Knowledge ID: #PRJ-200701-008

Record created 2007-05-29, last modified 2007-07-04

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