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 …
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 …
Stephanie – week 13
This past week our group prepared a presentation, and discussed our project and an overview of our findings to a research group at Simmons. It was definitely a good experience, and I’m glad I was able to get to practice …
Stephanie – week 11&12
This week I got to use R to analyze the CSV file. I ran some descriptive analysia on them, and also wrote some code to produce some graphs. I ran into an issue with how the file was configured however. …
Stephanie – week 9&10
So we now have access to a server, and since I’ve never used one before I spent time teaching myself how to navigate it using some online tutorials. We also ran some initial analysis on the csv file that contained …
Stephanie – week 7&8
We’re still having a few issues getting our server up and running, but it should be happening soon. Meanwhile, we spent some time reading papers related to our research, and I brushed up on my R skills. …
Week 13 – Katie
The code I was working on is going well, but not complete yet; testing my own code has shown a few inconsistencies, which I've addressed as necessary.
This past week, on Dec. 8, we presented an overview of our project …
Weeks 11 & 12 – Katie
In the past couple of weeks, I've attempted to combine all of the Python classes I've written in order to extract data from XML files, store them in Patient objects, and assess discrepancies in the clinical narratives.
My part of …