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Brian Whitman

CTO of The Echo Nest
Verified email at echonest.com
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Prader-Willi syndrome: consensus diagnostic criteria

…, JM Hanchett, LR Greenswag, BY Whitman… - …, 1993 - publications.aap.org
The diagnosis of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is based on clinical findings that change with
age. Hypotonia is prominent in infancy. Obesity, mild mental retardation or learning disability…

The million song dataset

T Bertin-Mahieux, DPW Ellis, B Whitman… - 2011 - academiccommons.columbia.edu
We introduce the Million Song Dataset, a freely-available collection of audio features and
metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks. We describe its creation process, its …

A large-scale evaluation of acoustic and subjective music-similarity measures

A Berenzweig, B Logan, DPW Ellis, B Whitman - Computer Music Journal, 2004 - JSTOR
… The similarity data collected using our We survey can be argued to be a good independe
measure of ground-truth artist similarity, b users were explicitly asked to indicate simila …

Benefits of long-term GH therapy in Prader-Willi syndrome: a 4-year study

AL Carrel, SE Myers, BY Whitman… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Obesity, poor growth, and hypotonia in children with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) are
accompanied by abnormal body composition resembling a GH-deficient state. Hypothalamic …

Long-term growth hormone therapy changes the natural history of body composition and motor function in children with Prader-Willi syndrome

AL Carrel, SE Myers, BY Whitman… - The Journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background: Children with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) have decreased muscle mass,
hypotonia, and impaired linear growth. Recombinant human GH (hGH) treatment reportedly …

Growth hormone improves body composition, fat utilization, physical strength and agility, and growth in Prader-Willi syndrome: a controlled study

AL Carrel, SE Myers, BY Whitman, DB Allen - The Journal of pediatrics, 1999 - Elsevier
Background: Obesity and hypotonia in children with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) are
accompanied by abnormal body composition and diminished energy expenditure resembling a …

Two years of growth hormone therapy in young children with Prader–Willi syndrome: physical and neurodevelopmental benefits

SE Myers, BY Whitman, AL Carrel… - American Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Infants with Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) typically display failure to thrive and decreased
muscle mass with excess body fat for age. Growth hormone (GH) therapy in children with PWS …

[HTML][HTML] Prader-Willi syndrome: A primer for clinicians

M Cataletto, M Angulo, G Hertz, B Whitman - International journal of …, 2011 - Springer
The advent of sensitive genetic testing modalities for the diagnosis of Prader-Willi syndrome
has helped to define not only the phenotypic features of the syndrome associated with the …

[PDF][PDF] Singer identification in popular music recordings using voice coding features

YE Kim, B Whitman - … of the 3rd international conference on music …, 2002 - archives.ismir.net
In most popular music, the vocals sung by the lead singer are the focal point of the song.
The unique qualities of a singer’s voice make it relatively easy for us to identify a song as …

The quest for ground truth in musical artist similarity

DPW Ellis, B Whitman, A Berenzweig… - 2002 - academiccommons.columbia.edu
… ), likewise, is the number of users that have both artists a and b in … b, where a is more
popular than b (ie, C(a) > C(b)), and a third artist c who is the most popular artist in the set; a and b