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 …
Clinical Narratives
10/23/15
This week we split up the work among the three of us. I focused on writing a code that read in a CSV file of patient information. Later I will be using this file and file reader and applying statistical …
10/16/2015
This week Rebecca and I worked together on creating person and patient objects in python. It had been a while since I had done this in python, so I took some time getting familiarized with how to do this. Our …
Rebecca’s CREU Update! 10/27/15
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 …
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 …