Rex Jakobovits, PhD   President, Vivalog Technologies 9215 View Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117 (206) 933-1240 Dr. Jakobovits is the President and founder of Vivalog Technologies, and is an affiliate professor with the University of Washington Department of Radiology and the Structural Informatics Group. He has over thirty publications in the fields of knowledge representation, clinical data modeling, and multimedia management.

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, 1999, University of Washington.
M.S., Computer Science, 1995, University of Washington.
B.A., English Literature / Computer Science, 1990, Rutgers University.

Research and Professional Experience          

President and Founder, 2001-PRESENT.
Vivalog Technologies
Seattle, WA

Founded Vivalog Technologies, a provider of clinical knowledge management solutions.  Developed new products for hospitals and medical research labs, including MyPACS.net and MyPACS Enterprise.

Informatics Researcher, 1999-2000.
Division of Teleradiology
Department of Radiological Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles

Created a web-based architecture for structured reporting of radiological findings.  Assisting in the development of a natural language processor of free text radiology reports.   

Research Assistant, 1995-1999.
Structural Informatics Group
Department of Biological Structure and Department of Computer Science,
University of Washington

Developed the Web-Interfacing Repository Manager, a Perl-based application server.  Built tools for managing multimedia data in an object-relational database.   Created applications for for visualizing and integrating medical research data.  Developed the Brain Mapper, a web-based information system used by radiologists and neuroscientists to manage the complex workflow requirements of processing patient data.

Research Assistant, 1992-1994.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
University of Washington.

Designed and implemented the Database Environment for Vision Research, a system that enables computer vision researchers to model their experiment data in an object-oriented database.  Developed persistent C++ applications that allow scientists to share data across research groups.

Software Developer, 1991-1992.
General Electric M&DSO Research & Development, Valley Forge, PA.

Designed knowledge base and expert system for integrating tactical military data from multiple heterogeneous sources.

Awards

Grand Prize (Magna Cum Laude), InfoRAD Exhibits, “Automatic Structuring of Radiology Free Text Reports”. Radiology Society of North America, Annual Meeting, 1999.

Bob Bandes Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, 1995,

Publications

Mark J. Halsted, Laurie A. Perry, Timothy P. Cripe, Margaret H. Collins, Rex Jakobovits, Corning Benton, and David G. Halsted. Improving Patient Care: The Use of a Digital Teaching File to Enhance Clinicians' Access to the Intellectual Capital of Interdepartmental Conferences. AJR 2004;182:307-309.

R. Jakobovits, C. Rosse, J. Brinkley. WIRM: An Open Source Toolkit for Building Biomedical Web Applications. Journal of the American Medican Informatics Association (JAMIA), In Press.

E. Weinberger, R. Jakobovits, M. Halsted. MyPACS.net: A Web-Based Teaching File Authoring Tool. American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), In Press.

R. Jakobovits, M. Halsted, M. Shanaman, E. Weinberger.  MyPACS.net: A Content Management System for Teaching Files. To appear in: Abstracts of the Radiology Society of North America Annual Meeting, November 2002.

J. Brinkley., R. Jakobovits, C. Rosse. An Online Image Management System for Anatomy Teaching. To appear in: Proceedings of the American Medican Informatics Association Fall Symposium, Sept. 2002.

R. Jakobovits. Leveraging Open Source Tools for Clinical Content Management. Submitted to: 2003 Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference.

R. Jakobovits, M. Halsted, M. Shanaman, E. Weinberger.  Teaching File Modeling Language (TFML): An XML Standard for Integrating Online Teaching File Repositories.  Abstracts of the Radiology Society of North America Annual Meeting, November 2001.

R. Jakobovits, M. Halsted, E. Weinberger.  MyPACS.net: A Web-based Teaching File Authoring System. Abstracts of the Radiology Society of North America Annual Meeting, November 2001.

R. Jakobovits, J. Brinkley, C. Rosse, and E. Weinberger.  Enabling Clinicians, Researchers, and Educators to Build Custom Web-Based Biomedical Information Systems.  Proceedings of the 2001 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Washington DC, pp. 279-283, October 2001.

R. Jakobovits.  WIRM: A Perl-Based Application Server.  Web Techniques, September 2000,  pp. 97-100.  Presented at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Navigating the Future of Open Source, July 2000, Monterey, CA.

R. Jakobovits, S. Soderland, R. Taira, and J. Brinkley.  Requirements of a Web-Based Experiment Management System.  Proceedings, 2000 American Medical Informatics Association Symposium,  pp.374-378.

R. Jakobovits, R. Livingston, E. Weinberger.  MyPACS.net: a service for creating web-based teaching file repositories. InfoRad Abstracts, Radiology Society of North America Annual Meeting, November 2000, p.696.

R. Jakobovits, S. Soderland, R. Taira, and J. Brinkley.  The Web-Interfacing Repository Manager:  A Framework for Developing Web-Based Multimedia Applications for Medical Research.  In Proceedings, 2000 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, Las Vegas, June 2000.

R. Taira, S. Soderland, and R. Jakobovits.  Automatic Structuring of Radiology Free Text Reports.  RadioGraphics, 2001 21: 237-245.

S. Soderland, R. Taira, R. Jakobovits, and E. Effmann.  Automated Analysis of Serial CT Reports from Pediatric Metastatic Lung Cancer Patients.  Abstracts, Radiology Society of North America Annual Meeting,, 2000,  p.704.

A. Poliakov, R. Jakobovits, R. Martin, D. Corina, and J. Brinkley.  Software Tools for Visualization and Analysis of Human Brain Data for Language Mapping.  Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, June 2000.

R. Taira, S. Soderland, and R. Jakobovits.  A Statistical Natural Language Processor for Medical Reports.  In Proceedings, 2000 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, Las Vegas, June 2000.

S. Soderland, R. Taira, and R. Jakobovits.  A Statistically Based Medical Text Understanding System.  UCLA Department of Radiological Sciences Technical Report, November 1999.

C. Rosse, J. Mejino, B. Modayur, R. Jakobovits, K. Hinshaw and J. F. Brinkley. Motivation and Organizational Principles for Anatomical Knowledge Representation: the Digital Anatomist Symbolic Knowledge Base. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 17-40, January 1998.

R. Jakobovits and J.F. Brinkley. Query-By-Context: A Framework for Modeling and Navigating Multimedia Research Data. In Proceedings, Annual Fall Symposium, Orlando, Nov. 7-11, American Medical Informatics Association, 1998.

R. Jakobovits. Integrating Heterogeneous Autonomous Information Sources. Univ. of Washington Technical Report, UW-CSE-971205, July 1997.

R. Jakobovits and J. F. Brinkley. Managing Medical Research Data with a Web-Interfacing Repository Manager. In Proceedings, Annual Fall Symposium, pages 454-458, Nashville, Oct 25-29, American Medical Informatics Association, 1997.

B.Modayur, R.Jakobovits, K.Maravilla, G.Ojemann, and J.F.Brinkley. Evaluation of a visualization-based approach to functional brain mapping. In Proceedings, Annual Fall Symposium, pages 429-433, Nashville, Oct 25-29, American Medical Informatics Association, 1997.

B.Modayur, G.Ojemann, E.Lettich, R.Jakobovits, J.Sundsten, and J.F.Brinkley. Information system for mapping and studying cortical language organization. In Abstracts, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, pages 2228, New Orleans, October 25-30, 1997.

B. Modayur, J. Prothero, C. Rosse, R. Jakobovits, and J. F. Brinkley.  Visualization and mapping of neurosurgical functional data onto a 3-D MR-based model of the brain surface.  In Proceedings, 1996 AMIA Fall Symposium Washington, D.C., pp. 304-308, 1996.

R. Jakobovits, L. Lewis, J. Ahrens, L. Shapiro, S. Tanimoto, J. F. Brinkley. A Visual Database Environment for Scientific Research. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol. 7, pp. 361-375, 1996.

R. Jakobovits, B. Modayur, and J. F. Brinkley. A Web-Based Repository Manager for Brain Mapping Data. In Proceedings, AMIA Fall Symposium, pages 309-313, Washington, D.C., Oct 28-30, American Medical Informatics Association, 1996.

R. Jakobovits, L. Shapiro, and S. Tanimoto. Implementing Multi-Level Queries in a Database Environment for Vision Research. In IS&T SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology, February 1995.

L.Shapiro, S.Tanimoto, J.F.Brinkley, J.Ahrens, R.Jakobovits, and L.Lewis. A visual database system for data and experiment management in model-based computer vision. In Proceedings of the Second CAD-Based Vision Workshop, pages 64-72, February 1994.

R. Jakobovits. Persistent Programming Languages: the Best of Both Worlds. Univ. of Washington Technical Report, UW-CSE-971203, Dec. 1993.

 
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