Outsourcing the Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline (2023-2024)

Digital biomarkers transform data from wearables into indicators of health outcomes, allowing rapid detection, prevention and management of many diseases. To facilitate the advancement of digital health, the Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline (DBDP) has been created as an open-source initiative to disseminate and promote toolkits, reference methods and data as the community standard for digital biomarker development. 

This project team explored the barriers to participating in digital biomarker discovery by exploring ways to create an evolving open-source ecosystem that can support and promote collaborative, translational research. 

Learn more about this team’s work by reading their team profile.

Timing

Summer 2023 – Spring 2024

Team Outputs

Team website

Qualitative data on commercial wearable use

FOMO: Functions for Optimizing Missing Observations (Python library to help researchers understand and manage missing data)

Interactive coding notebooks

Case studies

Addressing the Challenges of Missing Data in Digital Health Studies (Team profile; 2024 Fortin Foundation Bass Connections Virtual Showcase)

 

Image: Logos of the BIG IDEAS Lab and the Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline, dbdp.org

Logos of the BIG IDEAS Lab and the Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline

Team Leaders

  • Bill Chen, Pratt School of Engineering–Masters of Biomedical Engineering Student
  • Jessilyn Dunn, Pratt School of Engineering-Biomedical Engineering
  • Leeor Hershkovich, Pratt School of Engineering–Biomedical Engineering–Ph.D. Student
  • Hayoung Jeong, Pratt School of Engineering–Biomedical Engineering–Ph.D. Student
  • MD Mobashir Hasan Shandhi, Pratt School of Engineering-Biomedical Engineering

/graduate Team Members

  • Mercy Guriyire, Masters of Public Policy
  • Harrison Kane,
  • Fangrui Liu, Biomedical Engineering-MS
  • Yuyou Wu, Interdisciplinary Data Science - Masters
  • Jerry Yang, Biomedical Engineering-MS

/undergraduate Team Members

  • Shun Sakai, Electrical & Computer Egr(BSE)
  • Ellie Vogel