Patent ID: 8335698
Filing Date: 2012-12-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for selecting subjects for treatment study cohort groups, the computer implemented method comprising: identifying, by a processor, a set of selected dimensions for optimizing selection of subjects for a treatment cohort group and a control cohort group associated with a treatment study; clustering, by the processor, attribute data associated with subjects in a pool of available subjects at an atomic level to form clustered cohort data; selecting, by the processor, a set of optimized subjects from the pool of available subjects using the clustered cohort data and the set of selected dimensions, wherein subjects in the set of optimized subjects are optimized across the set of selected dimensions; and assigning, by the processor, each subject in the set of optimized subjects to the treatment cohort group or the control cohort group, wherein the each subject in the set of optimized subjects is assigned to the treatment cohort group or the control cohort group to minimize differences between the subjects in the treatment cohort group and the subjects in the control cohort group.