EECS Team Finishes in Top Ten in Data Mining Competition
July 16, 2008
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A team of electrical engineering and computer science graduate students and their professor, Alok Choudhary, recently finished among the top ten teams in the KDD Cup Challenge 2008.
Graduate students Ramanathan Narayanan, Sanchit Misra, Prem Swaroop joined Choudhary in the competition, where more than 200 teams competed.
The competition is one of the oldest and most competitive data mining competitions, and this year’s challenge focused on early detection of breast cancer from x-ray images. Teams were asked to develop algorithms for computer aided detection (CAD) of early stage breast cancer from x-rays. Such data mining can automate the process of looking through a large amount of patient data for cases of early-stage breast cancer.
The competition is an integral part of the annual ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. For more information, visit:
