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. 2015 Nov;22(6):1137-42.
doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv056. Epub 2015 Jul 3.

Center of excellence for mobile sensor data-to-knowledge (MD2K)

Santosh Kumar  1 , Gregory D Abowd  2 , William T Abraham  3 , Mustafa al'Absi  4 , J Gayle Beck  5 , Duen Horng Chau  6 , Tyson Condie  7 , David E Conroy  8 , Emre Ertin  9 , Deborah Estrin  10 , Deepak Ganesan  11 , Cho Lam  12 , Benjamin Marlin  11 , Clay B Marsh  13 , Susan A Murphy  14 , Inbal Nahum-Shani  15 , Kevin Patrick  16 , James M Rehg  2 , Moushumi Sharmin  1 , Vivek Shetty  17 , Ida Sim  18 , Bonnie Spring  8 , Mani Srivastava  19 , David W Wetter  12
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Center of excellence for mobile sensor data-to-knowledge (MD2K)

Santosh Kumar et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Nov.

Abstract

Mobile sensor data-to-knowledge (MD2K) was chosen as one of 11 Big Data Centers of Excellence by the National Institutes of Health, as part of its Big Data-to-Knowledge initiative. MD2K is developing innovative tools to streamline the collection, integration, management, visualization, analysis, and interpretation of health data generated by mobile and wearable sensors. The goal of the big data solutions being developed by MD2K is to reliably quantify physical, biological, behavioral, social, and environmental factors that contribute to health and disease risk. The research conducted by MD2K is targeted at improving health through early detection of adverse health events and by facilitating prevention. MD2K will make its tools, software, and training materials widely available and will also organize workshops and seminars to encourage their use by researchers and clinicians.

Keywords: big data; data science research; knowledge discovery; mobile health (mHealth); wearable sensors.

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Figure 1:
Five sources of mobile sensor data in mobile sensor data-to-knowledge applications. Each sensor (not embedded in the phone) transmits the data it collects over a wireless channel to the smart phone.
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Figure 2:
Major outcomes of mobile sensor data-to-knowledge include both data science research and knowledge discovery, which are tightly coupled. Application of data science research, on the left, to the data collected by mobile sensors results in knowledge discovery, on the right.
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