Dima Fayyad (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Sean Holt (Math), David Rein (Computer Science/Math) spent ten weeks exploring tools that will operationalize the application of distributed computing methodologies in the analysis of electronic medical records (EMR) at Duke.
As a case study, they applied these systems to an Natural Language Processing project on clinical narratives about growth failure in premature babies.
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Disciplines Involved: PreHealth/PreMed, BME, Economics, Biostatistics, all quantitative STEM
Project Leads: Ricardo Henao, Robert Overton
Project Mangers: A.J. Overton, Ben Neely
