Category: Health Informatics
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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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Louhi 2014: Special Issue on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis now published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
We are happy to announce the publication of the Louhi 2014 Special Issue on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Volume 15, Supplement 2: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedinformdecismak/supplements/15/S2 This special issue is edited by myself, Martin Duneld, Aron Henriksson, Maria Kvist, Maria Skeppstedt and Hercules Dalianis, and features five new contributions following…
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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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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…
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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…
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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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6th International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM 2014)
Maria Skeppstedt and Claudia Ehrentraut went to Aveiro, Portugal to attend the 6th International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (6th-7th October). SMBM aims to bring together researchers from text and data mining in biomedicine, medical, bio- and chemoinformatics, and researchers from biomedical ontology design and engineering. At the symposium, 9 long papers, 5 short…