Patent Document ID: 20090240513
Application ID: 12054084
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer implemented method for selecting subjects for treatment study cohort groups, the computer implemented method comprising: identifying 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 attribute data associated with subjects in a pool of available subjects at an atomic level to form clustered cohort data; selecting 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 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.