The 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2016) is one the prestigious conference in information systems area and on next year this conference will be held from 12 to 15 of June, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey (http://www.ecis2016.eu/en/default.asp). As co-chair of IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment track I would like to invite researchers who are interested in this track area to submit their papers till November 27, 2015. For more information about this track please access the following link: http://www.ecis2016.eu/files/downloads/Tracks/T19.pdf
Papers accepted for publication in Computer in Human Behavior journal and in Proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2015)
A paper written by Carolina Alaceva and Lazar Rusu and entitled: “Barriers in achieving business/IT alignment in a large Swedish company: What we have learned?“, has been accepted for publication in Computers in Human Behavior, 2015, (In Press), doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.007.
A paper written by Mohamed El-Mekawy, Lazar Rusu and Erik Perjons and entitled: “An evaluation framework for comparing business-IT alignment models: A tool for supporting collaborative learning in organizations“, has been accepted for publication in Computers in Human Behavior, 2015, (In Press), doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.016.
A paper written by Fredrik Larsson, Lazar Rusu and Parisa and entitled: “Organizational Structure in IT Governance: A Case Study of an IT Governance Implementation Project“, has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2015), August 13-15, 2015, Puerto Rico, USA.
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 a prototype that automatically reads the pathology reports that are written in Norwegian and transfers some of the important information into the database. We are planning to use already coded pathology reports as training material.
Jan Nygård our host, and Rebecka Weegar among pathology reports
Hercules, Rebecka and Kjersti Østby , coder
Kreftregistret
Tapas
Jens Ohlsson’s Licentiate Seminar
On March 9, 2015 our colleague Jens Ohlsson has defended successfully his Licentiate Thesis entitled: “Supporting Business Process Improvement Initiatives by Prioritizing and Categorizing Business Processes”. On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Jens for his achievement. Some pictures from the seminar and after the seminar are included below.
Rebecka Weegar, new employee
My name is Rebecka Weegar and I’ve recently started as a PhD student in the Clinical Text Mining Group here at DSV. My supervisors are professor Hercules Dalianis at DSV and professor Søren Brunak at DTU, Technical University of Denmark.
My area will be text mining, and my aim is to find cancer symptoms and comorbidities in electronic patient records. My first focus will be to identify symptoms and patterns in patients diagnosed with cervical cancer.
I have an MSc (civ.ing.) in software engineering from Lund University/Lunds Tekniska Högskola, where I wrote my master thesis in natural language processing. I got my degree in the fall of 2014.
I have already met a lot of nice people here, and I am looking forward to working together with all of you at DSV.
Rebecka
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 Salakoski from Department of Information Technology, University of Turku.
Members of the grading committee are associate professor Panos Papapetrou, DSV, Stockholm University, professor Ilona Koupil from Chess, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University, associate professor Beáta Megyesi, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University and associate professor Ingvar Krakau, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.
Warm welcome
Hercules
Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management
Shang Gao from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China and Lazar Rusu from Stockholm University, Sweden are the editors of a recently published book by IGI Global that is entitled “Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management”. The purpose of this book is to examine how modern techniques influence IT project management and their role in managing successfully IT projects. The book includes research studies that are examining important fields of IT project management like: agile project management, IT project alignment, strategic software project governance, risk in global IT projects, distributed IS development projects to mention only a few of them. The target audiences of this book are researchers and professionals working in the fields of project management, information systems, and IT project management. For more information about this book please access the following link: http://www.igi-global.com/book/modern-techniques-successful-project-management/118238?camid=3v11
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 covers all areas of medical informatics. We were specifically interested in Natural Language Processing of health records.
Sumithra presented a poster co-authored with Danielle Mowery, Lee Christensen, Noemie Elhadad, Sameer Pradhan, Guergana Savova and Wendy W Chapman entitled Disease/Disorder Semantic Template Filling – Information Extraction Challenge in the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014. The poster was about the CLEFeHealth 2014 task 2 held at CLEF in Sheffield, U.K. where the task was to normalize and detect a number of semantic modifiers linked to disease/disorder mentions in clinical text.
I participated in a panel jointly with Aurélie Névéol (France), Guergana Savova (U.S.A. and Bulgaria) and Pierre Zweigenbaum (France) with the title Clinical Natural Language Processing in Languages Other Than English. We discussed how to perform NLP, use tools and create annotations in other languages than English. Only 10 per cent of all NLP publications in PubMed involve other languages than English.
Sumithra and I have the proceedings and we have also written a short report in Swedish from the symposium, please contact us if you want a copy.
Below are some photos
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- AMIA 2014
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- Noemie Elhadad, Sumithra, Guergana Savova and Hercules
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- Stephane Meystre, Özlem Uzuner and Cyril Grouin
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- Sumithra in front of her poster
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- Sabine Koch and Magnus Bång
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- The Panel: Pierre Zweigenbaum, Guergana Savova, Aurélie Névéol and Hercules
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- Sumithra and Wendy Chapman
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- Poster session
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- Linguamatics demo with pizza lunch