Education
University of California - Los Angeles, 2003-Present
Ph.D. candidate in Information Studies
M.S. Biomedical Engineering (2005)
University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1998-2002
B.S. Biomedical Engineering with second major in Computer Science.
Publications
Arnold, C.W., Bui, A.T., Morioka, C., El-Saden, S. (2007). A Prototype Web-based Reporting System for Onsight-Offsite Clinician Communication. Radiographics, 27(4), 1201-1211.
Arnold, C., Corso, J., Bui, A (2007). An Unsupervised Approach to Automatic Image Annotation. NSF Biomedical Informatics Workshop: Expanding Secondary Use of Health Data, Portland, OR.
Invited Talks
Arnold, C.W. (2008). Exploring Medical Reports Using Topic Models. Annual National Library of Medicine Trainee Meeting, Washington D.C.
Lectures
Introduction to Medical Informatics: Modeling Radiology Images, Patient Record Driven Information Retrieval, UCLA 2007,2008
Awards and Honors
- Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA 2008-2009
- Regents Stipend, UCLA 2007
- National Library of Medicine Medical Informatics Trainee, 2003-2007
- UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, 2007
Work
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California - Los Angeles, 2007-Present
National Library of Medicine Trainee, University of California - Los Angeles, 2003-2007
Work in the Medical Imaging Informatics Group on several research projects including:
- Radiographic image indexing and retrieval
- Latent variable models of radiology data
- Web-based medical application development
Intern, IBM Almaden Research Center - San Jose, CA, Summer 2008
Built information (medical literature, clinical trials, etc.) retrieval system driven by a patient's medical record using controlled terminologies (SNOMED CT), NLP (MMTx), and cloud computing technologies (Hadoop, HBase).
Intern, National Library of Medicine - Bethesda, MD, Summer 2006
Performed a two month internship working with research faculty at NLM. Main project involved integrating statistical image segmentation algorithm into plugin for MIPAV.
Dept. of Biostatistics, Washington University in St. Louis, 1/2003 - 7/2003
Worked in the clinical trials core developing web-based tools and documentation protocols using XML technologies for the HALT-PKD and CRISP studies.