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Clinical narrative analytics challenges
Precision medicine or evidence based medicine is based on
the extraction of knowledge from medical records to provide individuals
with the appropriate treatment in the appropriate moment according to
the patient features. Despite the efforts of using clinical narratives for
clinical decision support, many challenges have to be faced still today
such as multilinguarity, diversity of terms and formats in different services,
acronyms, negation, to name but a few. The same problems exist
when one wants to analyze narratives in literature whose analysis would
provide physicians and researchers with highlights. In this talk we will
analyze challenges, solutions and open problems and will analyze several
frameworks and tools that are able to perform NLP over free text to
extract medical entities by means of Named Entity Recognition process.
We will also analyze a framework we have developed to extract and validate
medical terms. In particular we present two uses cases: (i) medical
entities extraction of a set of infectious diseases description texts provided
by MedlinePlus and (ii) scales of stroke identification in clinical
narratives written in Spanish
Project sanitarium:playing tuberculosis to its end game
Interdisciplinary and collaborative projects between industry and academia provide exceptional opportunities for learning. Project Sanitarium is a serious game for Windows PC and Tablet which aims to embed learning about tuberculosis (TB) through the player taking on the role of a doctor and solving cases across the globe. The project developed as a collaboration between staff and undergraduate students at the School of Arts, Media and Computer Games at Abertay University working with academics and researchers from the Infection Group at the University of St Andrews. The project also engaged industry partners Microsoft and DeltaDNA. The project aimed to educate students through a workplace simulation pedagogical model, encourage public engagement at events and through news coverage and lastly to prototype whether games could be used to simulate a virtual clinical trial. The project was embedded in the Abertay undergraduate programme where students are presented with real world problems to solve through design and technology. The result was a serious game prototype that utilized game design techniques and technology to demystify and educate players about the diagnosis and treatment of one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases, TB. Project Sanitarium aims to not only educate the player, but allows the player to become a part of a simulated drug trial that could potentially help create new treatments in the fight against TB. The game incorporates a mathematical model that is based on data from real-world drug trials. The interdisciplinary pedagogical model provides undergraduates with workplace simulation, wider industry collaboration and access to academic expertise to solve challenging and complex problems
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A Short Review of Ethical Challenges in Clinical Natural Language Processing
Clinical NLP has an immense potential in contributing to how clinical
practice will be revolutionized by the advent of large scale processing of
clinical records. However, this potential has remained largely untapped due to
slow progress primarily caused by strict data access policies for researchers.
In this paper, we discuss the concern for privacy and the measures it entails.
We also suggest sources of less sensitive data. Finally, we draw attention to
biases that can compromise the validity of empirical research and lead to
socially harmful applications.Comment: First Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing (EACL'17
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