RE: Sundry

2013-10-30 Thread Chen, Pei
Hi John, I was away for a little bit and finally got a chance to catch up on emails... > 2) I work for the DoD and have latched on to several IRB approved projects > within that community where Ill be using cTakes, though minimally at first. > This is just a statement, a bug in the ear of the comm

Re: Sundry

2013-10-30 Thread Tim Miller
Thanks for bumping this Pei, it reminds me I meant to respond to it. The OPQRST does sound like a great ML project. At a glance I might think a sequence model over sentences (like a CRF) would be a good model. But I'm wondering what the end use case is? Is it for teaching OPQRST to new clinicia

Re: Sundry

2013-10-31 Thread John Green
Pei and Tim - Good questions. The bottom line is that OPQRST is the algorithm that every clinician uses to characterize the history of a sign, symptom or constellation of symptoms. Each letter has multiple meanings, but generally they're grouped. O for onset, was it quick or slow in onset, P for p

Re: Sundry

2013-10-31 Thread John Green
A follow up point to the previous email: Yes Tim: middleware. This is moving beyond just documentation toward diagnosis and action, which I suppose is a hidden assumption here - maybe the cTakes community doesnt care at this point, based on history or physical exam/labs. However, a common quote in

RE: Sundry; Problem Lists

2013-10-31 Thread Finan, Sean
@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:02 PM To: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: Re: Sundry Pei and Tim - Good questions. The bottom line is that OPQRST is the algorithm that every clinician uses to characterize the history of a sign, symptom or constellation of symptoms. Each letter has multip

Re: Sundry; Problem Lists

2013-10-31 Thread John Green
c/articles/PMC2655994/ > It discusses the use of nlp to create something like a problem list. > > Sean > > > > > From: John Green [john.travis.gr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:02 PM > To: dev@ctakes.apache.or

RE: Sundry; Problem Lists

2013-10-31 Thread John Green
/articles/PMC2655994/ > It discusses the use of nlp to create something like a problem list. > Sean > > From: John Green [john.travis.gr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:02 PM > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org > Subject: Re

RE: Sundry; Problem Lists

2013-10-31 Thread John Green
ean >> ____________ >> From: John Green [john.travis.gr...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:02 PM >> To: dev@ctakes.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Sundry >> Pei and Tim - Good questions. >> The bottom line is that

Re: Sundry; Problem Lists

2013-11-01 Thread John Green
n > > > > > From: John Green [john.travis.gr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:02 PM > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org > Subject: Re: Sundry > > Pei and Tim - Good questions. > > The bottom line is that OPQRST is the

RE: Sundry; Problem Lists

2013-11-04 Thread Finan, Sean
Sean From: John Green [john.travis.gr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 7:26 PM To: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: RE: Sundry; Problem Lists Last point: I seem to be interested in a current encounter (the now) and diagnosis, the article seems to be interested in an arguably ju

RE: Sundry; Problem Lists

2013-11-04 Thread Finan, Sean
rking back from the known natural history of diseases would possibly be a >route to a solution. Now that is a challenge! Cheers for the inspiration and enthusiasm, Sean From: John Green [john.travis.gr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 10:45 AM To: Fin

Re: Sundry; Problem Lists

2013-11-04 Thread John Green
is probably well known stuff > Bad assumption ... insert emoticon here ... > > >working back from the known natural history of diseases would possibly > be a route to a solution. > Now that is a challenge! > > Cheers for the inspiration and enthusiasm, > Sean > > >

RE: Sundry; Problem Lists

2013-11-04 Thread Finan, Sean
n [mailto:john.travis.gr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 5:30 PM To: Finan, Sean Cc: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: Re: Sundry; Problem Lists Thank you Sean for taking the time to respond to me, it was much appreciated. I'm learning a lot about a lot. >I briefly discussed the

RE: Sundry; Problem Lists

2013-11-05 Thread John Green
outside the domain. > I hope that I am starting to get on the same page, and I am enjoying this > chat - it is different from my normal engagements, which is always nice. > Cheers, > Sean > From: John Green [mailto:john.travis.gr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 5