Investigations

Mega-CHOEP phase III is a randomised study comparing conventional chemoimmunotherapy with R-CHOEP-14 with high-dose chemotherapy plus Rituximab with autologous stem cell transplantation in high-risk patients aged 61 to 80 years with Aggressive Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

One of the challenges of Phenotypingt is that too little clinical information is available as machine-readable data sets. Admission letters, findings and operating room reports in particular contain valuable information such as diagnoses, medications, side effects and laboratory data that can only be extracted using methods of natural language processing and semantic text analysis methods. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is used to process documents from the Hospital Information System (HIS). ...

PheP is a platform that enables clinical researchers to work together with statisticians and computer scientists in interdisciplinary collaboration to pursue scientific issues that previously seemed economically and technologically unthinkable. For this purpose, it is necessary to build data sets that can be used for clinical-epidemiological and health-economic issues.

From phenotypes, i.e. determinable characteristics of patients, further characteristics can be derived and provided via phenotyping. ...

ROF filter based segmentation methods will be employed for automated recognition of macrophages, B-cells and cell nuclei within the tissue samples.