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Developing an application ontology for mining clinical reports: the extended syndromic surveillance ontology
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Ontologies representing knowledge from the public health and surveillance domains currently exist. However, they focus on infectious diseases (infectious disease ontology), reportable diseases (PHSkbFretired) and internet surveillance… read more… University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: michaelambroseconway@gmail.com Objective To develop an application ontologyFthe … -
Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance
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We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more… University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: wendy.w.chapman@gmail.com Objective Adapt an existing natural language …