A previous post described a first look at the data available in casesdatabase.com, primarily looking at summaries of high level meta-data. In this post I start looking at the cases themselves. As I noted previously, BMC has performed some form of biomedical entity recognition on the abstracts (?) of the case studies, resulting in a set […]
Exploring medical case studies
I recently came across http://www.casesdatabase.com/ from BMC, a collection of more than 29,000 peer-reviewed case studies collected from a variety of journals. I’ve been increasingly interested in the possibilities of mining clinical data (inspired by impressive work from Atul Butte, Nigam Shah and others), so this seemed like a great resource to explore The folks […]
Notes & thoughts from the IU semantics workshop
Over the last two days I attended a workshop titled Exploiting Big Data Semantics for Translational Medicine, held at Indiana University, organized by David Wild, Ying Ding, Katy Borner and Eric Gifford. The stated goals were to explore advances in translation medicine via data and semantic technologies, with a view towards possible fundable ideas and […]