Category: Presentation
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IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) in Belfast
Jing Zhao and Aron Henriksson attended the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) in Belfast, UK on November 2-5, 2014. The scientific program this year consisted of 111 papers, including two regular papers from DSV. Jing presented the paper “Detecting Adverse Drug Events with Multiple Representations of Clinical Measurements”, co-authored with Aron Henriksson,…
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EnRiMa Final Review held in Brussels
The 28 May, Janis and I went to the final review meeting of the FP7 EU project EnRiMa. The purpose of the EnRiMa project has been to reduce the energy consumption in public buildings by providing an innovative decision support system. During the review meeting the consortium demonstrated how the final system worked. Particular emphasis…
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Visiting UCSD and University of Utah
Aron Henriksson spent two weeks in April at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), continuing his ongoing collaboration with Dr. Mike Conway, who is currently at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. A small project was initiated that aims to develop techniques for detecting signals of adverse drug events (ADEs) in Twitter streams,…
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Prof Sophia Ananiadou: Integrating and ranking the evidence from pathways to text
Invited speaker professor Sophia Ananiadou hold a talk with the title Integrating and ranking the evidence from pathways to text, on Friday 25. She described her system, for mapping events, genes, interactions described in natural language in biomedical literature into a formal structure that can be used for faceted information retrieval. Professor Sophia Ananiadou is director…
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Two research visits – New York and Boston
Sumithra Velupillai traveled to the northeastern US coast on February 18-21 for two research visits. In New York, she visited Noemie Elhadad and her group at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, and in Boston, she visited Guergana Savova and her group at the Natural Language Processing Lab, Childrens Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.…
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Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2013)
I attended the 5th international symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2013), held at Tokyo University. There, I presented the paper “Vocabulary Expansion by Semantic Extraction of Medical Terms” by Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Ahltorp and Aron Henriksson. The paper was a result of the work conducted during my internship at the Language Media…
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Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2013) in Washington DC
Sumithra Velupillai and Aron Henriksson attended the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in Washington DC (Nov. 17-20). The AMIA symposium is the main medical informatics event in the US, with participants from all states, and around the world, with participants from all continents – there were well over 2,000 participants in…