Sumários

Natural Language Processing and Clinical Text Mining

10 março 2017, 16:00 Bruno Emanuel Da Graça Martins

Evaluating NLP

Limitations, open challenges, and current Hot Topics

Existing tools and services (e.g., for Named Entity Recognition in clinical texts)


Natural Language Processing and Clinical Text Mining

10 março 2017, 14:30 Bruno Emanuel Da Graça Martins

Natural Language Processing and its role in health informatics

How is it being used, in the context of clinical data? 

Basic approaches to NLP

Evaluating NLP

Limitations, open challenges, and current Hot Topics

Existing tools and services


Digital Libraries and e-infrastructures in the Health Sciences

9 março 2017, 14:30 Mário Gaspar da Silva

Digital Libraries

E-infrastrucures

Future Directions



Standards in Health IT

3 março 2017, 16:00 Mário Gaspar da Silva

Standards in Health IT

  1. Importance of standards in health informatics 
  2. The process for creating consensus standards: standards organisations 
  3. Clinical observation data standard: LOINC
  4. EHR standards: EN 13606 and the OpenEHR
  5. Data interchange standards: DICOM and HL7
  6. Factors influencing the creation of standards  


Biomedical Knowledge Representation

3 março 2017, 14:30 Mário Gaspar da Silva

Biomedical Knowledge Representation 

  • The knowledge pyramid
  • Motivation: modelling the Virtual Physiome of the Human
  • The Semantic Web Stack
  • Syntacttic vs. Semantic Interoperability
  • Biomedical ontologies