Projects of grant agencies
Optimization of data mining from clinical registries of the NHIS [
detail]
Coordinator: Dušek Ladislav
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of Health
Information technology in biomedical engineering [ detail]
Coordinator: Dušek Ladislav
Contracting authority: Czech Science FoundationThe aim of the project is to build a team of PhD students which will solve current issues of biomedical IT applications, publish the outcomes in peer-reviewed international journals, incorporate the research outcomes into the education and use the outcomes in their PhD theses.
INCHEMBIOL - Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales [ detail]
Coordinator: Dušek Ladislav
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of Education, Youth, and SportsBasic objective of the research plan is a complex approach to the research of interactions among chemical compounds present in environmental compartments and their biological effects: study of the fate of mainly persistent chemical compounds in the environment, their effects on the environment and living organisms including human.
Research of methods for the standardization of health care focused on the development of the National Set of Clinical Standards and Health Care Indicators [ detail]
Coordinator: Dušek Ladislav
Contracting authority: Internal Grant Agency of the Czech Ministry of Health (IGA)The National Set of Clinical Standards and Health Care Indicators has been developed with the aim to create a nationwide and standardized tool for further improvements in health care quality, which would be based on scientifically established clinical recommendations, the effect of which can be measured using specific quality indicators.
Modern pattern recognition methods for image data analysis in neuropsychiatric research [ detail]
Coordinator: Schwarz Daniel
Contracting authority: Internal Grant Agency of the Czech Ministry of Health (IGA)This research project enabled the creation of an authorized software utilizable in clinical practice for the diagnosis of selected neuropsychiatric diseases based on data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Fragment and quantitative profiling of cell free fetal nucleic acids from maternal plasma in pathological and physiological pregnancies [ detail]
Coordinator: Dušek Ladislav
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of HealthThe project is mainly oriented on testing of correlation between quantity and quality (size) of free fetal NA in maternal plasma during pregnancy at pathologies and normal controls. Data from analysis of STR loci, SNPs and gonozomal sequences will be evaluated.
Calling 911 in response to stroke: change in individual behaviour following a two-year education campaign & ways to enhance public awarenes [ detail]
Coordinator: Dušek Ladislav
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of HealthThe aim of this project was to identify whether there was a change in response to stroke symptoms in the Czech Republic following the two-year media campaign as compared to previously collected data from 2005. The secondary goal was to identify the predictors of such change in response to stroke symptoms and what prompted people to call 911.
Interaction between pulse pressure, pulse wave velocity, augmentation index, natriuretic peptides and echocardiography and their predictive value in acute heart failure [ detail]
Coordinator: Dušek Ladislav
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of HealthFor the optimization of AHF management, prognosis determination is a crucial point. The aim of the project is to evaluate the most important non-invasive prognostic parameters and to create a model combining these parameters in order to identify patients with unfavourable development of the disease.
Indicators of EMS efficiency according to NACE [ detail]
Coordinator: Hřebíček Jiří
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of EnvironmentDesign of new indicators for efficiency monitoring of environmental management systems, as well as system reporting, assessing the relations among the environment, economy and society.
Gene expression profiling-based prediction of treatment response for patient with locally advanced rectal cancer treated by chemotherapy and radiotherapy [ detail]
Coordinator: Jarkovský Jiří
Contracting authority: Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (co-investigator)The primary objective of the project is the identification of a gene expression profile in primary rectal carcinoma, using DNA microarrays.
Proposal of Communication Framework with International Environmental Information Systems [ detail]
Coordinator: Hřebíček Jiří
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of EnvironmentResearch project for the Czech Ministry of Environment, project No. VaV 10-99-05 (2005-2007).
Accessibility of government bodies’ websites [ detail]
Coordinator: Ráček Jaroslav
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of InformaticsResearch project in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Informatics, No. YA512006003 (2006-2007).
ARROW: Assessment and Reference Reports of Water Monitoring [ detail]
Coordinator: Hřebíček Jiří
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of EnvironmentResearch project in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Environment. Monitoring and assessment of ecological condition of waters.
Course on micro-array analysis - FRVŠ 2371/2006 [ detail]
Coordinator: Jarkovský Jiří
E-learning course on micro-array analysis.
Implementation and validation of a robust knowledge-based system UIRON for the oncology domain [ detail]
Coordinator: Dušek Ladislav
Contracting authority: Academy of Sciences of the Czech RepublicThe project "Implementation and validation of robust knowledge analytical system UIRON for the oncology domain" (furthermore referred to as "UIRON") was solved under Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic no. 1ET208120511 in scope of ‘Information society’ program.
Introduction of modern information technologies into the education of clinical disciplines [ detail]
Coordinator: Schwarz Daniel
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and SportsIntegrated project of MU's Faculty of Medicine, MU's Institute of Computer Science and pedagogical clinical institutes of the University Hospital Brno, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute and St. Anne's University Hospital Brno. The project aims to support both full-time and distance study of modern and newly accredited study programmes at MU's Faculty of Medicine, and to support advanced education in all clinical and health care disciplines.
Analysis and Design of Environmental Data Models and External Czech Environmental Information System Interfaces Compatible with the EU [ detail]
Coordinator: Ráček Jaroslav
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of EnvironmentResearch project for the Czech Ministry of Environment, project No. SM 250-3-03 (2003-2005).
Mathematic modelling - FRVŠ 1123/2006 [ detail]
Coordinator: Hřebíček Jiří
Innovation of the course "Mathematical modelling - introduction".
Epidemiological analysis of incidence of congenital disorders and tumours in children in the Czech Republic - Grant of the IGA NR-9012-3/2006 [ detail]
Coordinator: Mužík Jan
Contracting authority: Institute for the Care of Mother and ChildThe project contributes to the registration and monitoring of congenital disorders in the Czech Republic. The epidemiology of congenital disorders is a multidisciplinary field whose principal aim is to provide documents for health care quality assessment in related fields, as well as documents for health care quality assessment in the young generation.
Nonlinear multimodal registration for automatic morphometry of MRI brain images based on anatomically constrained spatial deformations [ detail]
Coordinator: Schwarz Daniel
Contracting authority: Czech Science FoundationDesign of a method for precise image registration based on intensity distribution as well as on salient objects. Design of suitable deformation model for nonlinear spatial transformation of brain images. Quantified evaluation of the algorithms on simulated images and synthetic deformation.
DIOS - Dose Intensity as Oncology Standard(FRVS No. 2608/2007) [ detail]
Coordinator: Klimeš Daniel
Contracting authority: Czech Society for OncologyThis project develops an electronic library of chemotherapy regimens, which can be used for educational purposes as well as in the clinical practice.
