2008 Medical NLP Challenge
I currently participating in the Second i2b2 Shared-Task and Workshop
Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data Obesity
Challenge (A Shared-Task on Obesity): Who's obese and what co-morbidities
do they (definitely/likely) have? sponsered by the Informatics for
Integrating Biology and the Bedside, i2b2, a National Center for
Biomedical Computing.
Information about this challenge can be found
here.
2007 Medical NLP Challenge
I participated in the 2007 Medical NLP Challenge, Classifying Clinical Free Text Using Natural Language Processing sponsored by the Computational Medicine Center, a collaborative medical research center between Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The goal of this challenge was to automatically assign ICD9CM codes to radiology reports.
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