This past week, we participated in our school's Undergraduate Symposium. Simmons holds this event annually, allowing students to showcase the work they've done throughout the year. Many students present their work at panels, but for our project it made more …
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Week 24
This week Katie, Stephanie and I worked on our poster for the Undergraduate Research Symposium here at Simmons. We worked on finalizing data and planned out what information and graphics to include on the poster. Of course, we also spent …
Week 20, 21, 22 – Rebecca
Over the past few weeks, I've been working on a number of things. I had to alter some of the CSVs I created, because my original files were counting symptoms as mentions of a condition. Analyzing symptoms would be interesting …
Week 18 & 19 – Rebecca
This past week, I created more CSVs for mentions of CAD, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity. These CSVs are based on whether or not each condition is mentioned at all, so there are only two possible options (mentioned or not mentioned). …
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 …
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, …
CREU Week 13 – Rebecca
This week, we put together a presentation of our work for our school's metadata research group. They gave a lot of really interesting feedback, which was much appreciated! Some of their ideas were outside of what we'll be able to …
CREU Weeks 11 & 12 – Rebecca
After having Thanksgiving break, we decided to lay out our game plan for the rest of the semester. I will continue looking into discrepancies between medical records. Specifically, I'm looking into patients' smoking statuses. It's common for one record to …
CREU Weeks 9 & 10 – Rebecca
Our server is finally working! I've been learning how to use the command line and how to SSH into the server. Having remote access will be especially useful for me, since I live off campus. Yay!
We also did some …
CREU Group Update
This week, we've worked on finalizing our person and patient objects. After a few weeks of writing the separate parts of this program, we've finally brought them all together into a cohesive whole. The code will now read in the …