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> On Jul 17, 2019, at 12:53 PM, gandhi rajan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the insight Sean. > > On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, Finan, Sean <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> ctakes-scrubber is not in any ctakes release and it is not in the main >> repository. It never went beyond experimental and resides within the >> ctakes sandbox. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/sandbox/ >> >> From what I recall, scrubber does not have "real" name replacement, but >> instead de-identifies entities by removing them and inserting a tag >> indicating the type of entity. For instance: "John has a rash" -> >> "[person] has a rash". That is not verbatim, but it is the general idea. >> >> If you can get ctakes-scrubber working in your project then it would be >> pretty easy to create an engine that does nothing except replace such >> generic tags with random names, dates, institutions, etc. >> >> Sean >> ________________________________________ >> From: gandhi rajan <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 12:26 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Synthetic replacement feature in cTAKES Scrubber [EXTERNAL] >> >> Hi Masoud, we had a similar requirement to identify patient names in the >> narratives text and I had a discussion with Sean Finan on patient name >> identification feature in cTAKES. What he told at that point in time was >> cTAKES dint supported patient name identification feature. Also as far as I >> know, I m not really sure whether scrubber made it to the cTAKES codebase. >> >> Sean, Please correct me if I m wrong. >> >> On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, Masoud Rouhizadeh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear cTAKES developer, >>> This is Masoud Rouhizadeh from JHU. I'm leading the NLP effort at the >>> Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and work on >>> enterprise-level NLP projects at Johns Hopkins Medicine. One of the major >>> goals we are targeting is de-identification of a large number of notes >>> (350M) to prepare them for search and indexing (Elasticsearch and Solr). >> I >>> have been in touch with Dr. Guergana Savova about cTAKES Scrubber and she >>> has been very helpful. >>> >>> One of our most desired features in the de-identification pipeline is >>> synthetic replacement (e.g. Nancy->Sally; random female first name >>> consistently replaces a female first name.). I wasn't able to find >>> information about this feature in cTAKES Scrubber. Is synthetic >> replacement >>> functionality part of the cTAKES Scrubber, or can it be added by >>> post-processing the output? For instance, if we know the name Nancy is >>> removed from multiple places, can we use a name dictionary to insert >> random >>> female first names in those places (just a thought)? >>> Overall, I wanted to emphasize that cTAKES Scrubber is one of our main >>> candidates and I'm hoping that we could find ways to collaborate. >>> >>> Thank you very much, >>> Masoud >>> >>> ---- >>> Masoud Rouhizadeh, PhD >>> Faculty - Division of Health Science Informatics (DHSI) >>> NLP Lead - Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) >>> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine >>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cs. >> jhu.edu_-7Emrou_&d=DwIBaQ&c=qS4goWBT7poplM69zy_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r= >> fs67GvlGZstTpyIisCYNYmQCP6r0bcpKGd4f7d4gTao&m= >> aIXsCuGWJqYNNtMb1ZfvZ0gAiw57gtrpZGqLVZjn5o4&s=9mLpsY5OPs7_ >> sAMhA60kB0PJcsttBBK6BYRN_xThZSo&e= >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Gandhi >> >> "The best way to find urself is to lose urself in the service of others >> !!!" >> > > > -- > Regards, > Gandhi > > "The best way to find urself is to lose urself in the service of others !!!"
