Rate My Professor Peter Summons

Summons' research centers on information and knowledge-based systems for business, information systems education, and decision support systems in medicine and health, with emphasis on health informatics, clinical guidelines interpretation, and tacit knowledge elicitation in pain management. Key publications include "Deep Ensemble Learning for the Automatic Detection of Pneumoconiosis in Coal Worker’s Chest X-ray Radiography" (2022), "Detection and Visualisation of Pneumoconiosis Using an Ensemble of Multi-Dimensional Deep Features Learned from Chest X-rays" (2022), "Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis in Chest X-ray Radiographs Using Machine Learning: A Systematic Literature Review" (2022), and "Disjunction, tension and dissonance within nursing pain care provision for the older hospitalized person" (2021). He served as principal investigator for three teaching grants, including a $50,000 national competitive CUTSD Grant (1998), and contributed to 17 grants totaling $262,871. Summons has supervised six higher degree research students to completion, examined NSW Higher School Certificate Computing Studies (1998-2000), chaired conference committees, edited proceedings, and is on the TEQSA Register of Experts since 2013. A member of the Australian Computer Society since 1990, his publications have over 570 citations.