Biography
About David
David Rust is a Programmer and Systems Analyst with the Kentucky Cancer Registry's Cancer Informatics division. He supports the development and maintenance of software applications central to KCR's cancer data operations.
His day-to-day responsibilities include building and refining software components, analyzing system requirements, troubleshooting technical issues, and contributing to the continuous improvement of KCR's informatics infrastructure. David works collaboratively with senior developers and registry staff to deliver reliable, well-tested software solutions.
His work helps ensure that KCR's data systems remain current, accurate, and capable of meeting the demands of a statewide cancer surveillance program.
Areas of Expertise
Focus Areas
Software Development
Systems Analysis
Application Maintenance
Cancer Informatics
Testing & QA
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Work
2023
DeepPhe-CR: Natural Language Processing Software Services for Cancer Registrar Case Abstraction
Presents NLP software services designed to assist cancer registrars in automating case abstraction from clinical pathology reports, reducing manual abstraction burden.
2019
Deep Transfer Learning Across Cancer Registries for Information Extraction from Pathology Reports
Investigates transfer learning with convolutional neural networks to facilitate cross-registry knowledge sharing for automated information extraction from cancer pathology reports.
In the News
Coverage & Announcements
2014
Lung Cancer Patients May Benefit from Innovative Informatics Project
UKNow — Jun 2014
Coverage of a KCR informatics project focused on improving lung cancer data collection and patient outcomes — a project David contributed to as part of the Cancer Informatics team.