The final report from the DEPEND study is out: Digital methods to enhance the usefulness of patient experience data in services for long-term conditions: the DEPEND mixed-methods study
Governance for healthcare text analytics
New publications on governanace for healthcare text analytics: Ford E, Oswald M, Hassan L, Bozentko K, Nenadic G, Cassell J: Should free-text data in electronic medical records be shared for research? A citizens’ jury study in the UK. Journal of Medical Ethics 2020;46:367-377 (link) Jones KH, Ford EM, Lea N,…
New review: Machine Learning for Clinical Text Data
New systematic review: Spasic I, Nenadic G: Clinical Text Data in Machine Learning: Systematic Review. JMIR Med Inform. 2020;8(3):e17984. doi:10.2196/17984 (link).
Papers on mining free-text police reports on domestic violence
New papers Automatic Extraction of Mental Health Disorders From Domestic Violence Police Narratives: Text Mining Study Automated Analysis of Domestic Violence Police Reports to Explore Abuse Types and Victim Injuries: Text Mining Study
Graduation – Ruth and Nikola
Congratulations to Ruth and Nikola who have officially graduated today!
Learning to identify Protected Health Information in free text
Learning to identify Protected Health Information by integrating knowledge- and data-driven algorithms: A case study on psychiatric evaluation notes The paper presents our experience in learning to identify personal information as part of the 2016 CEGS N-GRID Shared Tasks Track 1, which evaluated de-identification methods on a set of psychiatric…
Why People Use Twitter to Discuss Mental Health Problems?
#WhyWeTweetMH: Understanding Why People Use Twitter to Discuss Mental Health Problems The paper explores the reasons why individuals discuss mental health on the social media website Twitter. The study was the first of its kind to implement a study-specific hashtag for research. The number of tweets and themes identified demonstrates the feasibility…
Text mining to help household pets join the big data revolution
Read original article: HeRC funding helps household pets join the big data revolution
National Health Informatics research institute site in Manchester
Read original article: Manchester secures site for national health informatics research institute.
Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data: Continuous Success at i2b2 Challenges
2011 – This year we took again part in the annual i2b2 shared task, an international text mining challenge in the clinical/health-care domain. The team composed of members from University of Novi Sad (Kovacevic, A.) and University of Manchester (Dehghan, A., Nenadic G. and Keane, J.). The aim of the challenge…