Rebecca Crowley

Summary

Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Security and privacy requirements for a multi-institutional cancer research data grid: an interview-based study
    Frank J Manion
    Information Science and Technology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 9:31. 2009
  2. ncbi The CAP cancer protocols--a case study of caCORE based data standards implementation to integrate with the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid
    Jonathan Tobias
    Department of Pathology, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 6:25. 2006
  3. ncbi caTIES: a grid based system for coding and retrieval of surgical pathology reports and tissue specimens in support of translational research
    Rebecca S Crowley
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 17:253-64. 2010
  4. ncbi Evaluation of an intelligent tutoring system in pathology: effects of external representation on performance gains, metacognition, and acceptance
    Rebecca S Crowley
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Shadyside Cancer Pavilion, Room 307, 5230 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:182-90. 2007
  5. ncbi Effect of a limited-enforcement intelligent tutoring system in dermatopathology on student errors, goals and solution paths
    Velma L Payne
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Artif Intell Med 47:175-97. 2009
  6. ncbi Factors affecting feeling-of-knowing in a medical intelligent tutoring system: the role of immediate feedback as a metacognitive scaffold
    GILAN M EL SAADAWI
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15232, USA
    Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 15:9-30. 2010
  7. ncbi Development of visual diagnostic expertise in pathology -- an information-processing study
    Rebecca S Crowley
    Center for Pathology Informatics, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 10:39-51. 2003
  8. ncbi An intelligent tutoring system for visual classification problem solving
    Rebecca S Crowley
    Center for Pathology Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Artif Intell Med 36:85-117. 2006
  9. ncbi Implementation and evaluation of a negation tagger in a pipeline-based system for information extract from pathology reports
    Kevin J Mitchell
    Centers for Pathology and Oncology Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Shadyside, 5230 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Stud Health Technol Inform 107:663-7. 2004
  10. ncbi A natural language intelligent tutoring system for training pathologists: implementation and evaluation
    GILAN M EL SAADAWI
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
    Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 13:709-22. 2008

Research Grants

  1. The ODIE Toolkit - Software for Information Extraction and Biomedical Ontology De
    Rebecca S Crowley; Fiscal Year: 2010
  2. Computational Methods for Personalized and Adaptive Cognitive Training
    Rebecca S Crowley; Fiscal Year: 2010
  3. Continued Development and Evaluation of caTIES
    Rebecca S Crowley; Fiscal Year: 2010
  4. An Intelligent Virtual Microscope Tutor on the Internet
    Rebecca Crowley; Fiscal Year: 2006
  5. Computational Methods for Personalized and Adaptive Cognitive Training
    Rebecca S Crowley; Fiscal Year: 2010

Collaborators

Detail Information

Publications16

  1. ncbi Security and privacy requirements for a multi-institutional cancer research data grid: an interview-based study
    Frank J Manion
    Information Science and Technology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 9:31. 2009
    ..We use these statements to examine fundamental assumptions regarding data sharing using data federations and grid computing...
  2. ncbi The CAP cancer protocols--a case study of caCORE based data standards implementation to integrate with the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid
    Jonathan Tobias
    Department of Pathology, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 6:25. 2006
    ..The College of American Pathologists (CAP) cancer protocols and checklists are an important reporting standard in pathology, for which no complete electronic data standard is currently available...
  3. ncbi caTIES: a grid based system for coding and retrieval of surgical pathology reports and tissue specimens in support of translational research
    Rebecca S Crowley
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 17:253-64. 2010
    ..The system provides an end-to-end application of medical natural language processing to support multi-institutional translational research programs...
  4. ncbi Evaluation of an intelligent tutoring system in pathology: effects of external representation on performance gains, metacognition, and acceptance
    Rebecca S Crowley
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Shadyside Cancer Pavilion, Room 307, 5230 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:182-90. 2007
    ..Describe impact of tutoring on spectrum of diagnostic skills required for task performance. Identify key features of student-tutor interaction contributing to learning gains...
  5. ncbi Effect of a limited-enforcement intelligent tutoring system in dermatopathology on student errors, goals and solution paths
    Velma L Payne
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Artif Intell Med 47:175-97. 2009
    ..Determine if the size of the problem-space (domain scope), has an effect on learning gains when using a tutor with limited enforcement...
  6. ncbi Factors affecting feeling-of-knowing in a medical intelligent tutoring system: the role of immediate feedback as a metacognitive scaffold
    GILAN M EL SAADAWI
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15232, USA
    Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 15:9-30. 2010
    ..In order to facilitate transfer to real-world tasks, further research will be needed to determine the optimum methods for supporting metacognition as immediate feedback is faded...
  7. ncbi Development of visual diagnostic expertise in pathology -- an information-processing study
    Rebecca S Crowley
    Center for Pathology Informatics, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 10:39-51. 2003
    ..To identify key features contributing to trainees' development of expertise in microscopic pathology diagnosis, a complex visual task, and to provide new insights to help create computer-based training systems in pathology...
  8. ncbi An intelligent tutoring system for visual classification problem solving
    Rebecca S Crowley
    Center for Pathology Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Artif Intell Med 36:85-117. 2006
    ..This manuscript describes the development of a general intelligent tutoring system for teaching visual classification problem solving...
  9. ncbi Implementation and evaluation of a negation tagger in a pipeline-based system for information extract from pathology reports
    Kevin J Mitchell
    Centers for Pathology and Oncology Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Shadyside, 5230 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Stud Health Technol Inform 107:663-7. 2004
    ..Further work will focus on refining the Negation Tagger and UMLS Tagger and adding additional processing resources for annotating free-text pathology reports...
  10. ncbi A natural language intelligent tutoring system for training pathologists: implementation and evaluation
    GILAN M EL SAADAWI
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
    Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 13:709-22. 2008
    ..Residents can ask for help at any point in the case, and will receive context-specific feedback...
  11. ncbi Perceptual analysis of the reading of dermatopathology virtual slides by pathology residents
    Claudia Mello-Thoms
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Shadyside Hospital, Cancer Pavilion, 5150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Arch Pathol Lab Med 136:551-62. 2012
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  12. ncbi Heuristic sample selection to minimize reference standard training set for a part-of-speech tagger
    Kaihong Liu
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:641-50. 2007
    ..We conclude that heuristic sample selection can be used to markedly reduce human annotation requirements for training of medical NLP systems...
  13. ncbi The importance of pathology informatics in translational research
    Sambit K Mohanty
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Adv Anat Pathol 14:320-2. 2007
    ..Herein, we describe the various bioinformatics tools used to support translational research at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center...
  14. ncbi How primary care physicians' attitudes toward risk and uncertainty affect their use of electronic information resources
    K Ann McKibbon
    Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, VALE M 183, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
    J Med Libr Assoc 95:138-46, e49-50. 2007
    ..The research sought to determine if primary care physicians' attitudes toward risk taking or uncertainty affected how they sought information and used electronic information resources when answering simulated clinical questions...
  15. ncbi Touchscreen task efficiency and learnability in an electronic medical record at the point-of-care
    Zach Landis Lewis
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    Stud Health Technol Inform 160:101-5. 2010
    ..These findings suggest the user interface design supports a primary design goal of the EMR--to allow novice users to perform tasks efficiently and effectively...
  16. ncbi A system for sharing routine surgical pathology specimens across institutions: the Shared Pathology Informatics Network
    Thomas A Drake
    Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, avid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    Hum Pathol 38:1212-25. 2007
    ..With the addition of associated clinical and outcome information, this system could vastly expand the pool of annotated tissues available for cancer research as well as other diseases...

Research Grants12

  1. The ODIE Toolkit - Software for Information Extraction and Biomedical Ontology De
    Rebecca S Crowley; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Additionally, the project would contribute to the software for developing other applications by helping researchers build more comprehensive ontologies. The results of this work may benefit both medical research and patient care. ..
  2. Computational Methods for Personalized and Adaptive Cognitive Training
    Rebecca S Crowley; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Work in these areas has the potential to deeply impact the fields of patient safety, medical simulation and competency- based assessment, in addition to guiding the development of future medical training systems. ..
  3. Continued Development and Evaluation of caTIES
    Rebecca S Crowley; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..This project is important because it will greatly increase the access of researchers to important data and materials while maintaining patient privacy. ..
  4. An Intelligent Virtual Microscope Tutor on the Internet
    Rebecca Crowley; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..During the final years of the project, our efforts will be directed towards summative evaluation of the effect of the composite system, in laboratory and field studies. ..
  5. Computational Methods for Personalized and Adaptive Cognitive Training
    Rebecca S Crowley; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Work in these areas has the potential to deeply impact the fields of patient safety, medical simulation and competency- based assessment, in addition to guiding the development of future medical training systems. ..