Over the last couple of weeks, I extended a little bit of what I was working on (ordering temporal annotations with regard to other treatments). Although initially I used tuples (time, description) to track changes in medication/smoking, I recently switched …
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Stephanie Worobey – week 19
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
CREU Week 14: Tapia & Journal Articles Galore!
Over winter break, I spent a few days reading through the articles published last year detailing the outcomes of the various tracks of the 2014 i2b2 challenge, which is where the data we're currently investigating came from in the first …
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 …