This week, we worked on finishing up our person and patient classes. I also created separate objects for each tag category - for example, family history and medication. At first we were reading in these tags as strings. Now we …
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Weeks 5 & 6 – Katie
I was fortunate enough to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration recently, so I was unable to make our most recent meeting. However, I did program quite a bit on the plane (I had a lot of layovers). Regular expressions are …
Week 4 – Katie
Stephanie, Rebecca, and I have started discussing how we're going to integrate all of our code, since we have all begun working on parsers, Patient classes, and so on. I did some more background reading as well.
Lately we've been …
Week 3 – Katie
This week, I read more background on the subject of not only de-identifying medical records but also on developing ways to parse the files, find medical information, and so on. It was very interesting, especially since I hadn't a lot …
Week 2 – Katie
This week I started working on a Patient class, which will encompass information such as medication history, smoking status, family information, co-morbidity of disease, etc.
I have a small subset of data available to use and have been testing my …
Week 1 – Katie
Since we're still working on finding a way to host our data in a way that enables us all to have access to it but not provide any means of accidental data leaks, I spent my week developing an XML …
CREU Update! 10/16/15
Today, Stephanie and I worked on creating Person and Patient objects in Python (Katie is away at a conference, go Katie!). I've never used Python for object-oriented programming before, so I had to learn the basics of class definitions, how …
10/11/15
This week we agreed to all read a corpus entitled "Creation of a new longitudinal corpus of clinical narratives". We also began looking a CSV file regarding predicted and actual values of patient information regarding age and gender, and will …
9/27/15
We met again this week to discuss our next steps with the data. We’ve spent time this week familiarizing ourselves with the data, and discussing our plan of attack from here on out with this project. We’ve all been working …
CREU Update! 10/9/15
After spending some time writing a program to read in our patient files, we've begun working with regular expressions in Python. First, we worked through many exercises to reacquaint ourselves with regular expressions in general. Then, we worked on implementing …