VITAL

Multidisciplinary global collaboration to develop tools to support dengue management in limited resource settings.

Official VITAL site

Role: Postdoctoral researcher

Vietnam ICU Translational Applications Laboratory (VITAL) is a unique multidisciplinary project, funded by the Wellcome Trust as part of its Innovations for Impact strategy, providing ICU/critical care innovation in resource-limited settings. The project is a collaboration between The Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD) and Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), in Ho Chi Minh City, the University of Oxford, Imperial College London (ICL), King’s College London (KCL), ETH Zurich and the University of Melbourne.

The project brings together clinicians, biomedical engineers, physiotherapists, computational and social scientists aiming to use innovative approaches to improve the care of critically ill patients in low and middle income settings, focusing on diseases which cause significant morbidity and mortality.

The project aims to use state-of-the-art ways to enhance diagnosis and treatment utilizing machine learning, novel technologies and computational science in 4 specific diseases: sepsis, dengue, tetanus and tuberculous meningitis, using low-cost tools that are suitable use in the management of other life-threatening conditions and for scale-up and use in a wider setting. Read more

Publications

  1. Learning meaningful latent space representations for patient risk stratification: Model development and validation for dengue and other acute febrile illness
    Bernard Hernandez, Oliver Stiff, Damien K. Ming, and 16 more authors
    Frontiers in Digital Health Feb 2023
  1. Mapping patient pathways and understanding clinical decision-making in dengue management to inform the development of digital health tools
    Quang Huy Nguyen, Damien K Ming, An Phuoc Luu, and 8 more authors
    BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making Feb 2023
  1. A prospective clinical study on the use of a non-invasive wearable device and neural network models for patients with dengue
    Stefan Karolcik, Vasileos Manginas, Ho Quang Chanh, and 12 more authors
    In International Conference on Infectious Diseases Nov 2022
  1. A human-centred design approach towards development of a digital clinical decision-support system for management of hospitalised patients with dengue
    Bernard Hernandez, Damien K Ming, Chanh Ho Quang, and 15 more authors
    In International Conference on Infectious Diseases Nov 2022
  1. ASTMH
    The development of a machine learning-driven clinical decision support tool for the management of dengue in Vietnam
    Damien K. Ming, Bernard Hernandez, Huy NQ, and 9 more authors
    In American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2022
  1. Learning a Meaningful Latent Space Representation for Patient Risk Stratification: Model Development and Validation for Dengue
    Bernard Hernandez, Oliver Stiff, Damien K. Ming, and 15 more authors
    In European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2022
  1. The Diagnosis of Dengue in Patients Presenting With Acute Febrile Illness Using Supervised Machine Learning and Impact of Seasonality
    Damien K Ming, Nguyen M Tuan, Bernard Hernandez, and 8 more authors
    Frontiers in Digital Health Mar 2022
  1. Applied machine learning for the risk-stratification and clinical decision support of hospitalised patients with dengue in Vietnam
    Damien K Ming, Bernard Hernandez, Sorawat Sangkaew, and 8 more authors
    PLOS Digital Health Jan 2022