Content:  I agree with Lee, it was helpful to have Dr. Greenes' lectures back to back.  I also liked that this wasn't our first introduction to decision trees and Baye's theorem so the material wasn't completely foreign to us.  It is almost like we are no longer "newbies" in this BMI world.  I liked how the lectures built on eachother, in the first lecture Dr. Greenes gave us the basics of decision science then in the second he went into great detail about one example, which was decision trees.
One type of decision making he touched on was DXplain, which is a tool that can help clinicians determine a diagnosis.  I wanted to share the access information with you, in case you wanted to test it out: http://dxplain.org/dxp2/dxp.asp  the log-in codes are; account webmw     Password ze4527
Your browser most be AJAX enabled to run Dxplain.
But you can see how changing a person's sex or age will change the list of possible diseases or at least their ranking.
Also Dr Greenes brought up the article, The Incidentalome, A Threat to Genomic Medicine.  Here is where you can find that article, it is short and very interesting;  http://www.commed.vcu.edu/IntroPH/Genetics/threatgenomejul06.pdf

Posted by Laura Wojtulewicz