SEMINÁRIO DE FÍSICA, MATEMÁTICA E ENGENHARIA BIOMÉDICA

Título: Mathematics in medicine or ‘how to find the hammer to your nail’

Oradora: Natasha Maurits (University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands)

Zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/82588008288

Abstract:
Reading research papers of others, one may wonder which process led the authors to decide to use a particular analysis method. It could be that they are ‘just’ using an analysis method that is common to the
field, but particularly when the method is novel to the field, it may be hard to understand how the authors thought of this new method. In this lecture I will try to explain how this might be done.
As an applied mathematician working in medicine, I like to think of mathematics as a large toolbox, from which you ‘only’ need to choose the right tool(s) to tackle your problem. In real life, one would probably not use a hammer to fix a screw, but yet, in research it can be daunting to find ‘the hammer to the nail’. During this lecture, I will explain how 1) to identify and 2) specify the nail so that 3) one can choose the best hammer to hit the nail. I will provide examples from my research in which data visualization and data mining, as well as data classification and prediction are used as tools.