We have a server! We spent our most recent meeting figuring out who has access to which parts of it and other things like that. The next step is to learn how to navigate the server; I lucked out and …
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Weeks 7 & 8 – Katie
It's been tricky to get a server instantiated to keep all of our data in one place, but we're working on it! In the meantime, I read some papers related to our project, including one that Professor Stubbs worked on, …
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 0!
The CREU Clinical Narratives project is officially underway! We're going to be spending our year studying patterns in clinical narratives using a natural language processing (NLP) approach.
This week, we met for the first time since last semester and began …