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Analyzing Audio Files to Determine Therapy Efficacy
Jan. 19, 2022—Current Project: Using automatic speech recognition to transcribe audio files from patients with depression to determine efficacy of therapy. Before and after outcomes will be assessed using telephone audio files where participants were called and asked what they were “thinking” at the moments just before the call. These audio files can be coded using audio...
Classification of Drug-Related Adverse Events
Jan. 19, 2022—Our team is interested in developing natural language processing (NLP) systems using transformers to classify whether patients have drug-related adverse events from patients’ clinical notes in Vanderbilt University Medical Center electronic health records (EHRs), which could be potentially associated with a specific drug of interest. The Initial approach to this project will be binary classification,...
Evaluation of Transfer Learning Performance of Transformer-Based models in Clinical Notes
Jan. 18, 2022—Clinical notes and other free-text documents provide a breadth of clinical information that is not often available within structured data. Transformer-based natural language processing (NLP) models, such as BERT, have demonstrated great promise in using transfer learning to improve clinical text processing. However, these models are commonly trained on generic corpora, which do not necessarily reflect many of the intricacies of the...
Analyzing British Periodicals to Understand Legal Discourse
Jan. 18, 2022—As part of a larger exploration of the British Culture of Litigation (from a literary perspective), we are working on developing text-mining techniques with the corpus of Proquest British Periodicals, which contains (of its total 3.4 mil) roughly a million articles in the relevant timeframe of 1770-1850 produced in several hundred periodicals. Our goal is...
Lost in the Ivy
Feb. 11, 2021—Who Rosevelt Noble, Assistant Dean of Residential Colleges, Director of the Bishop Johnson Black Cultural Center What In 2007, Dr. Rosevelt Noble began the Lost in the Ivy project. He was inspired by notable African-American alum from Vanderbilt whose contributions and accomplishments were relatively unknown to current Vanderbilt students. To preserve the experiences of African-American students...
VUMC Children’s Hospital
Feb. 11, 2021—Who Chevis Shannon, Research Professor of Neurological Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center What Build tools and predictive models to allow VUMC Children’s Hospital to plan for changing caseloads and demands for personal protective equipment, ventilators, and staff due to COVID-19 impacts, and to explore the effect of policy changes. Related Publications VU Data Science...
Legal Document Classification
Feb. 11, 2021—Who Brian Fitzpatrick, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise What Reviewing legal documents for data on cases is a time-consuming process that requires highly trained readers. In this projects we use cutting-edge Natural Language Processing to reduce workload, and support research into Class Action lawsuits.
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