This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology totals $200,000 and will run from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026.
The primary objectives of this project are to: (1) Create a public-oriented medical knowledge base called FORMED that covers a wide range of diseases, conditions, and medications with details on symptoms, causes, and treatments; and (2) Develop a framework to integrate this medical knowledge with individual health records to evaluate its effectiveness in predicting personal health risks, particularly for uncommon diseases. The project will leverage domain-informed generative language models, knowledge graph construction, and temporal data prediction techniques to build this comprehensive medical knowledge resource and prediction system. All software, datasets, and research outputs will be made publicly available to benefit the general public's understanding of complex medical information.