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$900K National Science Foundation Grant Fosters Collaborations in Computer Science, Medicine

HOUSTON, March 15, 2006 � Five University of Houston researchers are teaching computers how to listen when your body talks.

Thanks to a $900,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that addresses the needs of the increasing complexity of collecting and analyzing biomedical data, this quintet of UH computer scientists can now more easily tackle this mining of health information from patients in real-time as a team.

With a primary focus of merging non-invasive imaging technologies with computational resources, the grant seeks to extend knowledge of how humans learn, study brain function and behavior, detect cognitive impairment, provide continuous non-invasive monitoring of human physiology, analyze facial expressions and the underlying cognitive state, and improve biometrics-based security.

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