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On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, Ravi Tejwani <ratej...@icloud.com.invalid>
wrote:

> How can I un-subscribe from this? Any help would be kindly appreciated.
>
> - Ravi
>
> > On Jul 17, 2019, at 12:53 PM, gandhi rajan <gandhiraja...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the insight Sean.
> >
> > On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, Finan, Sean <
> sean.fi...@childrens.harvard.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> ctakes-scrubber is not in any ctakes release and it is not in the main
> >> repository.  It never went beyond experimental and resides within the
> >> ctakes sandbox.  https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/sandbox/
> >>
> >> From what I recall, scrubber does not have "real" name replacement, but
> >> instead de-identifies entities by removing them and inserting a tag
> >> indicating the type of entity.  For instance:  "John has a rash" ->
> >> "[person] has a rash".   That is not verbatim, but it is the general
> idea.
> >>
> >> If you can get ctakes-scrubber working in your project then it would be
> >> pretty easy to create an engine that does nothing except replace such
> >> generic tags with random names, dates, institutions, etc.
> >>
> >> Sean
> >> ________________________________________
> >> From: gandhi rajan <gandhiraja...@gmail.com>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 12:26 PM
> >> To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: Synthetic replacement feature in cTAKES Scrubber [EXTERNAL]
> >>
> >> Hi Masoud, we had a similar requirement to identify patient names in the
> >> narratives text and I had a discussion with Sean Finan on patient name
> >> identification feature in cTAKES. What he told at that point in time was
> >> cTAKES dint supported patient name identification feature. Also as far
> as I
> >> know, I m not really sure whether scrubber made it to the cTAKES
> codebase.
> >>
> >> Sean, Please correct me if I m wrong.
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, Masoud Rouhizadeh <m...@jhu.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear cTAKES developer,
> >>> This is Masoud Rouhizadeh from JHU. I'm leading the NLP effort at the
> >>> Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and work on
> >>> enterprise-level NLP projects at Johns Hopkins Medicine. One of the
> major
> >>> goals we are targeting is de-identification of a large number of notes
> >>> (350M) to prepare them for search and indexing (Elasticsearch and
> Solr).
> >> I
> >>> have been in touch with Dr. Guergana Savova about cTAKES Scrubber and
> she
> >>> has been very helpful.
> >>>
> >>> One of our most desired features in the de-identification pipeline is
> >>> synthetic replacement (e.g. Nancy->Sally; random female first name
> >>> consistently replaces a female first name.). I wasn't able to find
> >>> information about this feature in cTAKES Scrubber. Is synthetic
> >> replacement
> >>> functionality part of the cTAKES Scrubber, or can it be added by
> >>> post-processing the output? For instance, if we know the name Nancy is
> >>> removed from multiple places, can we use a name dictionary to insert
> >> random
> >>> female first names in those places (just a thought)?
> >>> Overall, I wanted to emphasize that cTAKES Scrubber is one of our main
> >>> candidates and I'm hoping that we could find ways to collaborate.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you very much,
> >>> Masoud
> >>>
> >>> ----
> >>> Masoud Rouhizadeh, PhD
> >>> Faculty - Division of Health Science Informatics (DHSI)
> >>> NLP Lead - Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR)
> >>> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
> >>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cs.
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Gandhi
> >>
> >> "The best way to find urself is to lose urself in the service of others
> >> !!!"
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Gandhi
> >
> > "The best way to find urself is to lose urself in the service of others
> !!!"
>
>

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Regards,
Gandhi

"The best way to find urself is to lose urself in the service of others !!!"

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