We must urgently clarify data-sharing rules

Thyroid nodules and other incidentalomas: we must search for evidence and clarify our ethical priorities.

Thyroid Nodules and Other Incidentalomas: We Must Search for Evidence and Clarify Our Ethical Priorities A thyroid nodule will be incidentally discovered in 10%–60% of adults imaged for other reasons. The overwhelming majority of these lesions will be of no pertinence to the well-being of the patient. This unfortunate discovery may, however, initiate a sequence of events that includes additiona...

'In God we trust, all others (must) bring data'.

We must--and we can--do better.

Must we fear adolescent sexuality?

Editor's Note There is a general fear and anxiety surrounding adolescent sexuality. The question is why? Must we fear adolescent sexuality? This question, the title of the following article, is one that Amy Schalet, PhD, has spent the past decade investigating. It has culminated in a masterful doctoral thesis and a book to be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006. More specifical...

Hiding Classification Rules for Data Sharing with Privacy Preservation

In this paper, we propose a method of hiding sensitive classification rules from data mining algorithms for categorical datasets. Our approach is to reconstruct a dataset according to the classification rules that have been checked and agreed by the data owner for releasing to data sharing. Unlike the other heuristic modification approaches, firstly, our method classifies a given dataset. Subse...