Early Detection Research Group

BSc. Microbiology, UBCO 2022

Projects:

• NLP for automated extraction of canncer diagnosis from pathology reports

Nitchakan was born in Khon Kaen, Thailand. She came to Canada for secondary school and university. She joined the Early Detection Research Group in the summer of 2022 to work on the data analysis pipeline. She has always been interested in working and doing research in the medical-related field but never would have thought about working on the technological side of it. Nitchakan is excited to join the Early Detection Research Group. She is eager to learn about the construction of a data pipeline and contribute to something that could benefit others. Unfortunately, Nitchakan is not much of a winter person  and most of her hobbies revolve around the summer which includes anything from scuba diving, snorkeling, hiking, trekking to mountain biking.

BSc. Computer Science & Statistics, UBC

Projects:

• Image Data Curation

Johnson (Tingyu) is a 3rd-year UBC student studying Statistics and Computer Science. In May 2022, Johnson proudly joined the Image Curation group as a summer research student, and is assisting Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe and the team. Johnson is looking forward to facing the challenges ahead, one line of code at a time. Like many sweet-toothed people, Johnson spends his spare time in dessert places, gym, and then repeats.

BSc Computer Science, UBCO 2022

Projects:

• Traceable medical image de-identification pipeline for AI applications
• Validating Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Breast Cancer Detection
• NLP for automated extraction of cancer diagnosis from pathology reports

Liying was born in China, Guangzhou, she came to Canada for high school and university as an international student. Liying joined the Early Detection Research Group in the spring of 2022 after she graduated as a computer science student. Her past research experience has been in children’s robotics; however, she had a strong interest in the medical field. She hopes she can take the advantage of technology and use them in the medical field.

Biology major & Data Science minor, UBCO

Projects:

• Validation of AI models for identifying breast cancer in screening mammograms

Tien was born and raised in Vung Tau City, Vietnam. She came to Kelowna for an undergraduate degree at UBC Okanagan. She recently shows interests in Data Science, specifically in Data Analytics and Machine Learning with medical applications. She is excited to join Early Detection group this summer to work on the project validation of AI models for identifying breast cancer in screening mammograms as a recipient of SSRP. In her freetime, she enjoys hiking, rock climbing, baking, and painting.