United States Academic Collaborators
On campus collaborators
The Center for Cognitive Science is the representation on the University at Buffalo campus of an academic and private-sector movement, named "cognitive science", of which the aim is to investigate the nature of intellective processes as exhibited either by the human mind or by computer.
The Center brings together researchers from a number of traditionally separate disciplines -- primarily, computer science, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology , and neuroscience -- in order to build a new and unified understanding of cognition that is compounded from the different disciplinary perspectives and that moves beyond them.
The Center is involved in the UB Task Force for ontology-based IT support for large scale field studies in Psychiatry .
The primary mission of the School of Dental Medicine at the University at Buffalo is to educate oral health care professionals, biomedical scientists and educators; to discover medical and biological knowledge; and to deliver high quality, state-of-the-art oral health care. The School improves the oral and general health of the people of the State of New York through its teaching, research and service.
The School is involved in the Oral Diagnostic Consultation Tracking project.
The Halfon laboratory investigates the genetic regulatory circuitry responsible for assigning cell fates during development, using the Drosophila embryonic mesoderm as our primary model system. Our work combines genomics and bioinformatics with the traditional molecular and genetic techniques of Drosophila research to investigate two key components of developmental regulatory networks, intercellular signaling and transcriptional regulation.
The RTU is exploring ways to integrate the ontology evolution mechanism described in Ceusters & Smith, 2006a in the REDfly database, developed in Halfon's lab.
Overseas Collaborators
IFOMIS: Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Germany.
IFOMIS comprehends an interdisciplinary research group, with members from Philosophy, Computer and Information Science, Logic, Medicine, and Medical Informatics, focusing on theoretically grounded research in both formal and applied ontology. Its goal is to develop a formal ontology that will be applied and tested in the domain of medical and biomedical information science.
Former IFOMIS researcher Shahid MANZOOR who started developing a working prototype of a Referent Tracking System as described in [Ceusters & Smith, 2005b] is now member of the RTU.
RAMIT: Research in Advanced Medical Informatics and Telematics, Belgium.
RAMIT is a non-profit independent research organistion established with the help of the State University of Ghent. The working-team in RAMIT is multidisciplinary: medical doctors, engineers, informaticians, statisticians and secretarial staff. Recent activities include successful national, European and international projects dealing with eg. electronic medical record systems, decision support systems, electronic health data interchange, security, natural language processing in healthcare and computer assisted instruction in medicine.
RAMIT collaborates with the RTU on an Ontology for Risks against Patient Safety.
- Center for Cognitive Science, Buffalo NY
- Halfon Lab, Buffalo NY
- IFOMIS, Saarland University, Germany
- RAMIT, Ghent University, Belgium
- UB School of Dental Medicine, Buffalo, NY
Academic collaborators
Interested to collaborate ?
If you want to scientifically contribute to further develop or test the referent tracking paradigm, or if you consider referent tracking to be useful for your purposes, don't hesitate to contact us. We'll discuss with you the possibilities for collaboration.Be inspired by the projects already running.
