We report on the participation of the CSIRO1 team, named as CSIROmed, in the TREC 2016 Clinical Decision Support Track. We submitted three automatic runs and and one manual run. Our best submitted run was the manual run using the summaries. We expanded the summaries with synonyms of diseases, metamap concepts, abbreviations as well as boosting phrases. We also report on experiments post TREC co...

We report on our participation as the CSIROmed1 team in the TREC 2017 Precision Medicine track. We submitted five runs for the scientific abstracts collection (MEDLINE and Cancer Proceedings), and five runs for the clinical trials collection. We experimented with a number of query expansion and search result re-ranking techniques. We used citation and MeSH-based re-ranking methods, as well as r...

This report examines properties of two main methods used for local background estimation in microarray images. The first method uses samples from local regions defined such that they supposedly contain only background pixels; we call this a region method. This method is implemented in the Axon GenePix Pro software. The second method uses filtering techniques that removes the bright spots from t...

The Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have developed a Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF) to support the water industry to share and deliver water data to the Bureau as required under the Water Regulations 2008. The data in WDTF is stored into database through a data ingestion process. Until the data ingestion program ...

The sea-ice performance of the Australian climate models participating in the CMIP5 experiment, ACCESS1.0, ACCESS1.3 and CSIRO-Mk3.6, is assessed. Comparison with model output from five other international climate modelling centres and observational data are also included in the assessment process. The assessment takes into account modelled climatologies and interannual variability of the sea i...

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