| Heidegger: Interpretable Temporal Causal DiscoveryTemporal causal discovery aims to find cause-effect relationships between time-series. However, none of the existing techniques is able to identify the causal profile, the temporal pattern that the causal variable needs to follow in order to trigger the most significant change in the outcome. Toward a new horizon, this study introduces the novel problem of Causal Profile Discovery, which is crucial for many applications such as adverse drug reaction and cyber-attack detection. This work correspondingly proposes Heidegger to discover causal profiles, comprised of a flexible randomized block design for hypothesis evaluation and an efficient profile search via on-the-fly graph construction and entropy-based pruning. Heidegger's performance is demonstrated/evaluated extensively on both synthetic and real-world data. The experimental results show the proposed method is robust to noise and flexible at detecting complex patterns. Simon Fraser University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2021-05-24 | "Mehrdad Mansouri,", Ali Arab, "Zahra Zohrevand", Martin Ester |
| Interactive digital media for mental health. Simon Fraser University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2019-06-01 | Sylvain Moreno |
| What does movement bring to our lives when we age Simon Fraser University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2019-10-01 | Sylvain Moreno |
| A protocol for co-creating research project lay summaries with stakeholders: guideline development for Canada’s AGE-WELL networkFunding bodies often require researchers to write lay summaries (summaries in non-scientific language) to share their research with the public and explain its importance. However, researchers typically find lay summaries difficult to write and the public finds them difficult to read. If stakeholders outside the academic sector are involved in writing lay summaries, the summaries are more likely to be understood by the public. Our project aims to develop guidelines for researchers in Canada’s AGE-WELL Network of Centres of Excellence, and eventually in various other disciplines, sectors, and institutions, to help them work with stakeholders to co-create lay summaries. We have created a lay-summary co-creation protocol based on workshops conducted with an AGE-WELL researcher. This paper presents the protocol, which researchers funded by the AGE-WELL Core Research Program 2020 will be invited to use to work with a range of stakeholders to co-produce a lay summary of their projects. The lay-summary co-creation protocol has six steps: Learn the basic steps for writing a good lay summary, identify the target readership, identify stakeholders to work with, recruit stakeholders to work on a lay summary, prepare for workshop sessions, and run the sessions. To help researchers get the most from their experience, we plan to give them a guide to writing a good research lay summary, help them make decisions, and host, and facilitate if necessary, their lay summary co-creation workshops. This protocol would help researchers write effective lay summaries to share their research with a wide group of readers. University of Dundee, Simon Fraser University, University of Oxford, KITE Research Institute at University Health Network | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2020-05-08 | Mineko Wada, Judith Sixsmith, "Gail Harwood", Theodore Cosco, Mei Fang, Andrew Sixsmith |
| Automation of CT-based haemorrhagic stroke assessment for improved clinical outcomes: study protocol and designHaemorrhagic stroke is of significant healthcare concern due to its association with high mortality and lasting impact on the survivors’ quality of life. Treatment decisions and clinical outcomes depend strongly on the size, spread and location of the haematoma. Non-contrast CT (NCCT) is the primary neuroimaging modality for haematoma assessment in haemorrhagic stroke diagnosis. Current procedures do not allow convenient NCCT-based haemorrhage volume calculation in clinical settings, while research-based approaches are yet to be tested for clinical utility; there is a demonstrated need for developing effective solutions. The project under review investigates the development of an automatic NCCT-based haematoma computation tool in support of accurate quantification of haematoma volumes. Simon Fraser University, Fraser Health | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2021-05-24 | "Betty Chinda", "George Medvedev", " William Siu", Martin Ester, Ali Arab, "Tao Gu", Sylvain Moreno, "Ryan C N D’Arcy", Xiaowei Song |
| Perceptions of home in long-term care settings: before and after institutional relocation
Although moving from institutional to home-like long-term care (LTC) settings can promote and sustain the health and wellbeing of older adults, there has been little research examining how home is perceived by older adults when moving between care settings. A qualitative study was conducted over a two-year period during the relocation of residents and staff from an institutional LTC home to a purpose-built LTC home in Western Canada. The study explored perceptions of home amongst residents, family members and staff. Accordingly, 210 semi-structured interviews were conducted at five time-points with 35 residents, 23 family members and 81 staff. Thematic analyses generated four superordinate themes that are suggestive of how to create and enhance a sense of home in LTC settings: (a) physical environment features; (b) privacy and personalisation; (c) autonomy, choice and flexibility; and (d) connectedness and togetherness. The findings reveal that the physical environment features are foundational for the emergence of social and personal meanings associated with a sense of home, and highlight the impact of care practices on the sense of home when the workplace becomes a home. In addition, tension that arises between providing care and creating a home-like environment in LTC settings is discussed. University of Dundee, Simon Fraser University, KITE Research Institute at University Health Network | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2019-01-09 | Mineko Wada, Sarah Canham, Lupin Battersby, Judith Sixsmith, "Ryan Woolrych", Mei Fang, Andrew Sixsmith |
| WP6 Face to face meeting (in Winnipeg, Manitoba) University of Alberta, University of Toronto, University of Regina, Toronto Rehab Institute, The KITE Research Institute at University Health Network, Toronto Rehab Institute, University Health Network, Bruyère Research Institute, Simon Fraser University, Toronto Rehab Institute/University of Toronto, Bruyere Research Institute | Networking and Partnerships | 2017-10-18 | Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia, Mark Chignell, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Babak Taati, Frank Rudzicz, Frank Knoefel, Zahra Moussavi, Sylvain Moreno, Andrea Wilkinson, Tiffany Tong, Peyman Azad-Khaneghah, Victor Fernandez, Dillam Romero, Azin Asgarian, Ahmed Ashraf, Natasha Gallant, Erin Browne, Caroline Ethier, Christine Daum |
| Aging and Machine learning: a way to better longevity. Simon Fraser University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2020-03-02 | Sylvain Moreno |
| Combination Theta-Burst Stimulation and Cognitive Training for Youth Depression. Simon Fraser University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2019-05-30 | "Lee, J.C", "Knyahnytska, Y.", "Dhami, P.", "Blumberger, D.M.", "Daskalakis, Z.J.", "Courtney, D.", "Croarkin, P.E.", Sylvain Moreno, "Farzan, F." |
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