Michael Thompson
University of Toronto
21 Papers
623 Citations
Michael Thompson is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Signal & Health care. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 21 publications. Previous affiliations of Michael Thompson include Boston University & Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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Papers
Multi-layer Representation Learning for Medical Concepts
Edward Choi,Mohammad Taha Bahadori,Elizabeth Searles,Catherine Coffey,Michael Thompson,James Bost,Javier Tejedor-Sojo,Jimeng Sun +7 more
- 13 Aug 2016
TL;DR: This work proposes Med2Vec, which not only learns the representations for both medical codes and visits from large EHR datasets with over million visits, but also allows us to interpret the learned representations confirmed positively by clinical experts.
Quantitative phenotyping via deep barcode sequencing
Andrew M. Smith,Lawrence E. Heisler,Joseph C. Mellor,Fiona Kaper,Michael Thompson,Mark S. Chee,Frederick P. Roth,Guri Giaever,Corey Nislow +8 more
TL;DR: This paper completely re-sequenced and re-annotated the yeast deletion collection using deep sequencing, found that approximately 20% of the barcodes and common priming sequences varied from expectation, and used this revised list of barcode sequences to improve data quality.
Patent
Chest strap for measuring vital signs
Matthew Banet,Michael Thompson,Zhou Zhou +2 more
- 20 Dec 2005
TL;DR: In this article, a chest strap is used to measure a variety of vital signs (e.g., heart rate, blood pressure, and pulse oximetry) and wirelessly transmit them to an external device.
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Patent
System for measuring vital signs using an optical module featuring a green light source
Zhou Zhou,Michael Thompson,Matthew Banet +2 more
- 03 Feb 2006
TL;DR: In this article, a system for measuring vital signs from a patient that includes a first sensor including a first electrode that measures a first electrical signal from the patient, and a second sensor including an optical system with a light source configured to emit green radiation and a photodetector configured to measure the green radiation emitted from the light source, after it irradiates the patient.
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Evaluation of a point-of-care blood test for identification of Ebola virus disease at Ebola holding units, Western Area, Sierra Leone, January to February 2015
Naomi F. Walker,Naomi F. Walker,Naomi F. Walker,Christian Brown,Daniel Youkee,Paul Baker,N. Williams,A. Kalawa,Katherine Russell,A. F. Samba,Neil Bentley,F. Koroma,M. B. King,B. E. Parker,Michael Thompson,Tom H. Boyles,Tom H. Boyles,B. Healey,Brima Kargbo,Donald Bash-Taqi,Andrew J. H. Simpson,Abdul Kamara,Thaim B. Kamara,Marta Lado,Oliver Johnson,Tim Brooks +25 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that this RDT developed by the United Kingdom's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory could be used as a 'rule-out' screening test for EVD to improve rapid case identification and resource allocation.
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