Anthony Nguyen
Research Scientist, Project Leader (Cancer Information Processing and Reporting)
Contact
The Australian e-Health Research Centre
Level 5 - UQ Health Sciences Building 901/16
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
Herston QLD 4029 Australia
Tel: +61 7 3253 3637
Fax: +61 7 3253 3690
Anthony.Nguyen@csiro.au
Themes
- e-Health
Projects
- Cancer Information Processing And Reporting (CIPAR)
Science Area
- Semantic Data Management
Biography
Anthony Nguyen is a Project Leader and Research Scientist from the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), CSIRO ICT Centre in Brisbane. Anthony leads the Cancer Information Processing and Reporting (CIPAR) project, which aims to build medical text analysis capabilities to unlock information in electronic health records to support cancer management decision making. He works closely with health-care practitioners from Cancer Registries and Hospital Pathology Departments in Queensland and New South Wales.
Anthony joined the AEHRC in 2006 as a Post Doctoral Fellow and later as a Research Scientist (2008) and Project Leader (2009). He works with a team of researchers and engineers with expertise in the natural language processing of medical records and clinical terminology (ontology) engineering. His research now extends beyond the cancer domain and includes the medical text analysis of radiology, discharge, and other clinical reports.
Anthony received the B.Eng. (Aerospace Avionics) degree with first class honours in 1999 and a Ph.D. degree in the area of satellite and aerial image processing in 2005 at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). As part of his Ph.D., he was involved in various applied research contracts for clients such as DSTO, U.S. Office of Naval Research, and Boeing Australia.
Prior to joining CSIRO, Anthony spent a year as a Post Doctoral Fellow with the Faculty of Information Technology at QUT, working on a funded research project on the predictive analysis of the microclimatic impacts on the built environment for the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Construction Innovation.
Anthony’s technical research interests is in the area of informatics, in particular multimedia processing and mining, information retrieval, ontology use, pattern recognition and machine learning. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, as well as travelling, catching a good movie and relaxing.
Academic Qualifications
| 2005 | PhD Queensland University of Technology, Image Processing |
| 1999 | BEng (Hons 1) Queensland University of Technology, Aerospace Avionics |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2009-present | Project Leader, Cancer Information Processing and Reporting, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, ICT Centre, CSIRO, Australia |
| 2008-present | Research Scientist (Health Informatics), The Australian e-Health Research Centre, ICT Centre, CSIRO, Australia |
| 2006-2008 | Post Doctoral Fellow, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, ICT Centre, CSIRO, Australia |
| 2005-2006 | Post Doctoral Fellow, CRC for Construction Innovation, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2004-2005 | Research Fellow, Speech Audio Image & Video Tech. Research Group, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2004-2005 | Telecom Laboratory Development Coordinator, School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2001-2005 | Teaching Assistant, School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2000-2005 | PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 1999-2004 | Research Assistant/Senior Research Assistant, Speech Audio Image and Video Tech. Research Group, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
Summary of Science & Technical Output
| Books/Book chapters | 0 |
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| Journal | 8 |
| Refereed Conference/Workshop | 34 |
| Technical/Client Reports | 3 |
| Invited Presentations | 1 |
| Patents | 0 |
Grants
| 2011 | Cancer Institute NSW (1 year grant AU$104,000) |
Student Supervision
| 2012 | Luke Butt, Industrial Trainee (14 weeks), Industry Affiliates Program, Griffith University, Australia |
| 2011-Present | Timothy Chappell, PhD in Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2010-Present | Sun (Kimi) Yue, Masters of Information Technology (Research), Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2010/2011 | Tim Chappell, Summer vacation scholar, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 2010 | Rodrigo Gutiérrez, CSIRO Internship (4 months - Commercial Plan), University of Queensland (Business School), Australia |
| 2010 | Horacio González, CSIRO Internship (4 months - Commercial Plan), University of Queensland (Business School), Australia |
| 2008 | Monika Dujmovic, Industrial Trainee (2 months), School of Health Sciences, Community Services and Biotechnology, Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada |
| 2007/2008 | Phuong Nguyen, Summer vacation scholar, Flinders University, Australia |
| 2007/2008 | Emma Brunton, Summer vacation scholar, Monash University, Australia |
Science Citizenship
| 2012 | Member, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA; since 2009) |
| 2012 | AMIA Working Group member (Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Semantics, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; since 2009) |
| 2012 | Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (MIEEE; since 1999) |
| 2012 | Electronic Communications/Marketing Officer, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Queensland Chapter (EMBS; since 2008) |
| 2012/2010/2007 | Reviewer, e-Journal in Health Informatics |
| 2012/2011 | Reviewer, Image Communication (IF=1.186), |
| 2012 | Reviewer, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC; since 2008) |
| 2012 | Review Panel, PhD Confirmation of Candidature Seminar: Document Signatures and Relevance Feedback (Timothy Chappell, QUT) |
| 2011 | Secretary, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Queensland Chapter |
| 2011 | Guest Lecture, Clinical Information Retrieval (Search Engine Technology unit, QUT) |
| 2011 | Program Committee, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Health |
| 2011 | Reviewer, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA; IF=3.078) |
| 2011 | Reviewer, Applied Clinical Informatics |
| 2011 | Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP; since 2008) |
| 2011 | Review Panel, PhD Confirmation of Candidature Seminar: Semantic Search as Inference: Applications in Health Informatics (Bevan Koopman, QUT) |
| 2011 | Review Panel, PhD Confirmation of Candidature Seminar: Robust Automatic Speaker Diarisation and Attribution (Houman Ghaemmaghami, QUT) |
| 2010 | Treasurer, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Queensland Chapter (since 2008) |
| 2010 | Program Committee, International Congress on Image and Signal Processing and the International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (CISP'10-BMEI'10) |
| 2010 | Reviewer, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IF=1.645) |
| 2010 | Review Panel, PhD Final Seminar: Fast and Accurate Phonetic Spoken Term Detection (Roy Wallace, QUT) |
| 2010 | Review Panel, PhD Confirmation of Candidature Seminar: Driver Face Processing in Vehicles (Chew (Chris) Sien Wei, QUT) |
| 2010 | Reviewer, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) |
| 2009 | Steering Committee Member, BreastScreen Queensland Digital Planning & Implementation (since 2008) |
| 2009 | Reviewer, Cancer Informatics |
| 2008 | Steering Committee Proxy Member, BreastScreen Queensland Digital Planning & Implementation (since 2007) |
| 2008 | Reviewer, Age and Ageing (IF=1.919) |
| 2007 | Reviewer, Pattern Recognition Letters (IF=0.952) |
| 2005 | Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IF=1.511) |
Top 10 Publications
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| A. Nguyen, M. Lawley, D. Hansen, R. Bowman, B. Clarke, E. Duhig and S. Colquist, "Symbolic Rule-based Classification of Lung Cancer Stages from Free-Text Pathology Reports", Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 440-445, Jul/Aug 2010 |
| I. McCowan, D. Moore, A. Nguyen, R. Bowman, B. Clarke, E. Duhig and M-J Courage, "Collection of Cancer Stage Data by Classifying Free-text Medical Reports", Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 736-745, 2007 |
| A. Nguyen, M. Lawley, D. Hansen, S. Colquist, “Structured Pathology Reporting for Cancer from Free Text: Lung Cancer Case Study”, in electronic Journal of Health Informatics, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. e8, 2012 |
| A. Nguyen, J. Moore, M. Lawley, D. Hansen, S. Colquist, "Automatic Extraction of Cancer Characteristics from Free-Text Pathology Reports for Cancer Notifications," Health Informatics Conference, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 117-124, 1-4 August 2011 |
| A. Nguyen, M. Lawley, D. Hansen, R. Bowman, S. Colquist, "Automated Metastasis Stage Classification for Lung Cancer Patients using Free Text Radiology Reports," in American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 November 2009 |
| A. Nguyen, M. Lawley, D. Hansen, S. Colquist, "A Simple Pipeline Application for Identifying and Negating SNOMED Clinical Terminology in Free Text," in Health Informatics Conference, Canberra, Australia, pp. 188-193, 19-21 August 2009 |
| A. Nguyen, V. Chandran, S. Sridharan, and R. Prandolini, "Interpretability performance assessment of JPEG2000 and Part 1 compliant region of interest coding," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 808-817, November, 2003 |
| G. Zuccon, A. Nguyen, T. Leelanupab, L. Azzopardi, “Indexing without Spam,” Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Canberra, Australia, 2 December 2011 |
| D. Tjondronegoro, J. Zhang, J. Gu, A. Nguyen, S. Geva, "Integrating Text Retrieval and Image Retrieval in XML Document Searching," in Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: INEX 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3977, 2006 |
| V. Chandran, S. Elgar & A. Nguyen, "Detection of mines in acoustic images using higher order spectral features," IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 27, pp. 610-618, 2002 |
Number of citations
| ISI | 39 |
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| Google Scholar | 147 |