User:DanielS

Publications

• S.E. Elsheikh, A.R. Green, E.A. Rakha, D.G. Powe, R.A. Ahmed, H.M. Collins, D. Soria, J.M. Garibaldi, C.E. Paish, A.A. Ammar, M.J. Grainge, G.R. Ball, M.K. Abdelghany, L. Martinez-Pomares, D.M. Heery, I.O. Ellis, Global Histone Modifications in Breast Cancer Correlate with Tumor Phenotypes, Prognostic Factors, and Patient Outcome, Cancer Research, 69:3802-3809, 2009
• D. Soria, J.M. Garibaldi, E. Biganzoli, I.O. Ellis, A Comparison of Three Different Methods for Classification of Breast Cancer Data, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA08), IEEE Computer Society, 619-624, 2008
• F. Ambrogi, E. Raimondi, D. Soria, P. Boracchi, E. Biganzoli, Cancer profiles by Affinity Propagation, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA08), IEEE Computer Society, 650-655, 2008

Talks

• Application of Affinity Propagation on breast cancer data sets,
  23rd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIII), Bonn, Germany, 06-07-2009 (20 min)
• Application of Affinity Propagation on breast cancer data sets,
  IMA group seminar, 23-06-2009 (30 min)
• Application of Affinity Propagation on breast cancer data sets,
  5th BIOPTRAIN Workshop, Firenze, Italy, 10-06-2009 (45 min)
• A Comparison of Three Different Methods for Classification of Breast Cancer Data,
  Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA08), San Diego, US, 13-12-2008 (15 min)
• Classification techniques for breast cancer data,
  School Seminar at the Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, 25-11-2008 (45 min)
• Classification techniques for breast cancer data,
  Mini EURO Conference on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine (Mini EURO CCBBM), Rome, Italy, 17-09-2008 (20 min)

Conferences

• 23rd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIII), Bonn, Germany, 05-07-2009 - 08-07-2009
• Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA08), San Diego, US, 11-12-2008 - 13-12-2008
• Mini EURO Conference on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine (Mini EURO CCBBM), Rome, Italy, 15-09-2008 - 17-09-2008

Pending Publications

• J.M. Garibaldi, D. Soria, F. Ambrogi, A.R. Green, D.G. Powe, E.A. Rakha, R.D. Macmillan, R.W. Blamey, G.R. Ball, P.J.G. Lisboa, T.A. Etchells, P. Boracchi, E. Biganzoli, I.O. Ellis, Identification of Key Breast Cancer Phenotypes, submitted.

Publications

• D. Soria, J.M. Garibaldi, F. Ambrogi, P.J.G. Lisboa, P. Boracchi, E. Biganzoli, Clustering breast cancer data by consensus of different validity indices, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Medical, Signal and Information Processing (MEDSIP), 2008

Talks

• Clustering breast cancer data by consensus of different validity indices,
  4th International Conference on Advances in Medical, Signal and Information Processing (MEDSIP 2008),
  Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, 14-07-2008
• Identification of Key Breast Cancer Phenotypes,
  ASAP group seminar (30 min), 01-11-2007

Conferences

• 4th International Conference on Advances in Medical, Signal and Information Processing (MEDSIP 2008), Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy (14-07-2008 - 16-07-2008)

Publications

• Daniele Soria, First year report, School of Computer Science, 29-03-2007

Talks

• Comparison of clustering techniques for breast cancer data,
  22nd European Conference on Operational Research (20 min), Prague, 11-07-2007
• Identification of Sub-populations in Breast Cancer Data through Different Clustering Algorithms,
  ASAP group seminar (30 min), 13-12-2006

Conferences

• EURO XXII, Prague, Czech Republic (09-07-2007 - 11-07-2007)
• EURO-CBBM Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic (08-07-2007)

Fellowship meetings

• 5th BIOPTRAIN Workshop, Firezne, Italy, 10-06-2009 - 12-06-2009
• BIOPTRAIN Meeting, Innsbruck, Austria, 12-01-2009

Courses

• Statistical course, School of Computer Science, 16-12-2008

Communication skills

• Further Presentation Skills, Graduate School (28-02-2008)
• Presentation Skills - Building Confidence (Science and Engineering), Graduate School (09-10-2007)

Fellowship meetings

• 09-01-2007, School of Computer Science

Research skills

• Getting started with research design and statistics, Graduate School (27-11-2006, 04-12-2006, 15-01-2007)
• How to prepare an effective poster presentation, Graduate School (29-11-2006 & 06-12-2006)
• Nature of the PhD and the Supervision Process, Graduate School (27-11-2006)

Courses

• Bioinformatics, School of Computer Science (Spring Semester 2007)
• Computing and Molecular Biology, School of Biology (21-11-2006 - 22-11-2006) report

Training events

• Activity Review Training, University of Nottingham (20-04-2007)
• One Day Conference for Research Staff and Research Students who are New to Teaching, University of Nottingham (27-03-2007)

Courses

• Post-genomics and Bioinformatics, School of Biosciences (15-05-2006 - 17-05-2006) report

Fellowship meetings

• 12-07-2006, School of Computer Science
• 02-03-2006, School of Computer Science

Communication skills

• Academic Writing Module - Dissertation Writing (24-04-2006 - 22-05-2006)
• Academic Listening Module - Listening 1 (17-02-2006 - 24-03-2006)
• Academic Speaking Module - Seminar Presentation and Practice (17-02-2006 - 24-03-2006)
• Academic Speaking Module - Conversational English (14-02-2006 - 21-03-2006)

Training events

• Activity Review Training, University of Nottingham (23-05-2006)

• Writing up PhD thesis
• Developing and validating a step-by-step guide for emphasizing core representative classes in a data set
• Secondment at Poznan University of Technology
• Working on Affinity Propagation clustering technique at National Cancer Institute in Milan (Italy)
• Writing journal paper on the new 'non-parametric' method

• Developement of a new 'non-parametric' version of the naive Bayes classifier (July - August 2008)
• Comparison of classification techniques using WEKA software (May - June 2008)
• Analysis of different classification techniques (March - April 2008)
• Dimentionality reduction of the breast cancer dataset (January - February 2008)
• Choice of 'most important' variables to be considered (November - December 2007)
• Definition of set of rules for classes classification (September - October 2007)

• Writing Journal Paper, submitted (June - August 2007)
• Upgrading available data set (April - May 2007)
• Writing First Year Report (February - March 2007)
• Definition of six different classes for Breast Cancer derived from different cluster algorithms (December 2006 - January 2007)
• Analysis of different clustering algorithms for Breast Cancer data. Work done at the National Cancer Institute in Milan (Italy) (September - November 2006)

• Definition of a final Breast Cancer dataset to work with (July - August 2006)
• Working in SQL with large datasets provided by Nottingham City Hospital (April - June 2006)
• Meetings with researchers from School of Molecular Medical Science (March 2006)
• Definition of PhD goals and plan of work (February 2006)