This week I will finish the functions in R that I began to code this week to check for patients with smoking discrepancies, I will also begin to write a function to check for total numbers of discrepancies. Lastly I …
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Stephanie – week 18
Last week I began to brainstorm on ways to attack the problem of smoking status. This week I will be meeting with an outside professor to get some advice on how to go about doing this. I will also be …
Week 17 – Katie
Although the code I wrote over the last few weeks was primarily in script format, I put some time in over the weekend to create Python classes in order to analyze medication history more effectively. Building off of my previous …
CREU Week 16 & 17 – Rebecca
During week 15, I worked on extracting diabetes mentions from each medical record and writing them to a CSV file. I formatted the file based on what will work best for Stephanie when she goes on to analyze the CSV …
Weeks 15 & 16 – Katie
Last week, Simmons closed the school due to snow on Monday, so we didn't meet; instead, I worked on extracting medication data from tags. I've been using linked lists to keep track of which medications are mentioned when.
This week, …
Stephanie: week 17
This week I will begin to work on the problem of finding discrepancies of smoking statuses. In our weekly meeting we discussed some of the challenges that will come with this - primarily that smoking status can change in a …
Stephanie: week 15 & 16
These weeks were spent writing code in R in order to look for discrepancies pertaining to the diabetes status of the patients in our corpus. I met a few bumps in the road but was able to collaborate with an …
CREU Week 14 – Rebecca
This week, we worked on completing our poster proposal. I did a lot of background reading for this, mostly from the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. They recently released a special volume full of articles pertaining to the i2b2 Shared Task, …
01/14/16
This week we collaborated to finish a poster presentation for the 2016 Tapia conference. We also read journal articles from the journal of biomedical informatics. The articles were pertaining to the 2014 i2b2/UTHealth NLP shared task, which is where we …