Highlights
Third Dissemination Virtual Meeting: From resilience predictive model to decision making
On 23rd of September 2020, the European Institute of Oncology (Milan) will present the third dissemination virtual event of the European Project BOUNCE: Predicting Effective Adaptation to Breast Cancer to Help Women to BOUNCE Back. Italy, Finland, Israel, Greece, and Portugal have been cooperating for 3 years to develop a dynamic, predictive model able to help health care professionals in the medical decision-making process…
The 3rd issue of the BOUNCE newsletter has been published.
The 3rd issue of the BOUNCE newsletter has been published!
Multidimensional Group Recommendations in the Health Domain
Providing useful resources to patients is essential in achieving the vision of participatory medicine. However, the problem of identifying pertinent content for a group of patients is even more difficult than identifying information for just one. Nevertheless, studies suggest that the group-dynamics-based principles of behavior change have a positive effect on the patients’ welfare. Along these lines, in this paper, we present a multidimensional recommendation model in the health domain using collaborative filtering.
Mind body connection for resilience in breast cancer survivors
The importance of mind body connection for resilience in breast cancer survivors by a breast cancer survivor who now does group classes in the community and works with the Israeli Cancer Society.
Participatory aspects of ICT infrastructures for cancer management
Experiences from five EU projects for transforming the nature of healthcare in cancer management from reactive to preventive, personalized and participatory.
The 2nd issue of the BOUNCE newsletter has been published.
The 2nd issue of the BOUNCE newsletter has been published! You can download it from the Newsletters section of the project's website, or you can click on any of it's featured articles below to read it online. The BOUNCE Project at a glance: Meeting The Challenge Of A...
Coping with breast cancer with resilience
Preliminary analyses of the first data from the BOUNCE H2020 project (https://www.bounce-project.eu/) have revealed notable findings. Responses to the extensive questionnaires concerning mental health and quality of life have been obtained from 660 women before...
A multinational study of resilience in breast cancer
The first wave of data from the BOUNCE H2020 project have been coming in as more than 660 women, recently diagnosed by breast cancer have generously volunteered their valuable time and energy to respond to the extensive study questionnaires. One notable finding of the...
Computational modeling of psychological resilience trajectories during breast cancer treatment
Coping with breast cancer and its consequences has now become a major socioeconomic challenge. The BOUNCE EU H2020 project aims at building a quantitative mathematical model of factors associated with optimal adjustment capacity to cancer. This paper gives an overview...
Introduction of the BOUNCE project to a delegation of Chinese Oncologists from the Sun Yat-sen University of Guangzhou, Guangdong (China)
The European Institute of Oncology - Milan hosted a delegation of Chinese Oncologists from the Sun Yat-sen University of Guangzhou, Guangdong (China). This visit was part of the longstanding track of IEO on intercultural and multi-professional exchanges concerning...
Artificial Intelligence as an In Silico Tool For Breast Cancer Survivors
The following article was first published at the VPH institute website and it outlines part of the analysis and modelling work related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Statistics led by the In Silico Oncology and In Silico Medicine Group in Athens, as part of the...
Congratulations to Prof. Georgios Stamatakos for his election at the new VPHi Board of Trustees
Congratulations to our Prof. Georgios Stamatakos for his election at the new VPHi Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is composed by the President and the two Financial Auditors. Its role is to supervise the operations of the Board of Directors, ensuring that...
BOUNCE Integrated Platform Architecture
Towards designing a platform that will guarantee uninterrupted data flow and smooth interaction amongst its technical components, the BOUNCE consortium partners led by Singular Logic designed and documented the BOUNCE Platform Reference Architecture. The BOUNCE...
Interview HUS trial nurse Satu Karjalainen
In Helsinki the recruitment process of BOUNCE is nearly finished as the total number of patients recruited for BOUNCE prospective pilot is over 200. The aim of this pilot is to collect an extensive battery of information mainly through NOONA platform about the factors affecting breast cancer patients resilience. Trial nurse Satu Karjalainen has been a key person in the recruitment process since after the doctor’s appointment she has introduced the study in detail to the patients as well as assisted patients with the Noona platform.
BOUNCE integrated platform first release
The first integrated BOUNCE platform was successfully released on M21, featuring the first set of services and features in accordance with the formulated integration strategy and plan, as well as the defined platform release plan. The development of the integrated BOUNCE platform follows an iterative approach which enables the incremental definition of the available platform’s features and offerings which are designed and implemented for each iteration.
Presenting the BOUNCE project at the BIBE 2019 Conference
Dr Haridimos Kondylakis presents the paper entitled “Computational modeling of psychological resilience trajectories during breast cancer treatment” at the IEEE BIBE2019 Conference at the Royal Olympic Hotel in Athens.
Special session Tech4Cancer at the BIBE 2019 Conference
In the framework of the BOUNCE Project, the special session Tech4Cancer will be organised at the BIBE 2019 Conference, focusing on projects on cancer management.
Second Dissemination Event: Cross Cultural Perspective on Resilience in Breast Cancer
The second dissemination event of the BOUNCE project (month 24) with the title “Cross-Cultural Perspective on Resilience in Breast Cancer” took place at the Beit Maiersdorf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem on Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 from 9:00 to 16:00.