Author: Aron Henriksson
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Maria Skeppstedt’s Licentiate Dissertation Defense
Maria Skeppstedt defended her Licentiate thesis convincingly and successfully on May 15, 2012! The dissertation, entitled From Disorder to Order – Extracting clinical findings from unstructured text, investigates the use of rule-based techniques to extract mentions of findings (e.g. breathing problems) and disorders (e.g. asthma) from electronic health records written in Swedish, while also being able to determine whether or not…
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Comparing certainty level annotations in clinical NLP: a case study on Swedish and English within the Interlock project
On the recent return from her research visit to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Sumithra Velupillai presented the results of a comparative study of certainty-level annotations in clinical NLP written in Swedish and English respectively. The research visit took place within the Interlock project – a collaboration between the IT for Health group…
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Paper accepted to the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME)
We’ve had a paper accepted to the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME’11), which this year will be held in Bled, Slovenia (July 2-6). The paper is written by myself, Martin Hassel and Maria Kvist and is titled Diagnosis Code Assignment Support Using Random Indexing of Patient Records – A Qualitative Feasibility Study.…
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Third HEXAnord Meeting, Utö 22-24 September 2010
The third HEXAnord meeting took place on Utö in the Stockholm archipelago last week and was hosted by the IT for Health group at DSV. …