Author: Hercules
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PhD training school in De-identification for privacy protection in multimedia content
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I participated as a lecturer at the EU-COST funded PhD training school in De-identification for privacy protection in multimedia content, in Limassol Cyprus, in the beginning of October 2015. De-identification for pricacy protection of multimedia content as speech, text, images, data is a new research area with the growing amount of available streaming data for…
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Promovering och utdelande av pris i vackra folkdräkter
Docent Sirkku Männikkö Barbuti och dr. Maria Skeppstedt blev hyllade på Stockholms universitets Installations- och promoveringshögtid i Stockholms Stadshus fredagen den 25 september 2015. Docent Sirkku Männikkö Barbutiu fick pris som årets lärare 2015 och dr. Maria Skeppstedt blev promoverad och fick en lagerkrans. Sirkku i folkdräkt från Karelen och Maria i folkdräkt från Vingåker, Södermanland, (foto…
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Dr Alicia Peréz guest researcher from Spain
Dr Alicia Peréz is a lecturer from the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain. Dr Peréz is visiting the Clinical Text Mining group at DSV for three months, Sept-Nov 2015. We are planning to exchange techniques and methods for text mining of clinical text in both Swedish and Spanish. Dr Peréz is working…
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Four DSV papers accepted at Louhi 2015
Four DSV papers accepted at Louhi 2015, the Sixth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal. Friedrich S and Dalianis H. Adverse Drug Event classification of health records using dictionary based pre-processing and machine learning. Henriksson A. Representing Clinical Notes for Adverse Drug Event Detection. Alfalahi A, Skeppstedt M, Ahlbom R, Baskalayci R, Henriksson…
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Text mining of cancer pathology reports at Kreftregisteret, Oslo, 8-9 april 2015
Rebecka Weegar and I had a kickoff for our Minecan project at Kreftregisteret, Oslo, 8-9 April 2015. 200 000 cancer pathology reports for cancer are sent yearly from all hospitals in Norway to Kreftregistret to be manually read and entered into a database. 25 human coders are performing this work. Our plan is to build…
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Stockholm Natural Language Processing Meetup
Today I visited Stockholm Natural Language Processing Meetup. This time hosted by Gavagai at Bondegatan 21, Södermalm in Stockholm. Sahar Asadi from Meltwater, organised everything. The topic today was “Word embedding: From theory to practice. Three speakers talked: Magnus Sahgren on “Distributional semantics at Gavaga”, Hendrik Heuer on “Word2vec from theory to practice and finally…
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Nailed Thesis – by Maria Skeppstedt
Maria Skeppstedt’s dissertation with the title Extracting Clinical Findings from Swedish Health Record Text is now nailed (spikad) in the library of NOD, see photos below. For a digital copy and abstract, click here. Maria will defend her PhD thesis on Friday, January 23, 2015, at 13.00 in Lilla Hörsalen, Nod-huset. Borgarfjordsgatan, DSV, Stocholm University, Kista. Opponent is professor Tapio…
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AMIA 2014, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, 15-19 november Washington DC
Sumithra Velupillai (who is currently doing a postdoc at UC San Diego and University of Utah) and I participated at the AMIA 2014 – American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, November, 15-19, Washington DC, USA. The Symposium attracted over 2000 participants mainly from USA, but also some from Europe and other parts of the world. It…