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UMLS Visualizer Available

We have developed a Java applet that uses TouchGraph technology to visualize parent-child relationships between MeSH concepts. Learn how to use the visualizer.

Open Position: Visiting Research Scientist/Post-doctoral Fellow

Research efforts will focus on the development, application and evaluation of novel linguisitc methods in both the clinical and administrative settings. For more information, download the position description.

Update: International Medical NLP Challenge

More than 120 participants in more than 25 countries registered. Results and other competition details are available on the Medical NLP Challenge web site.

Cincinnati Pediatric Corpus Available

John Pestian, PhD, and colleagues have used natural language processing to create the Cincinnati Pediatric Corpus (CPC), a collection of 600,000 words of HIPAA-anonymized clinical data approved for release by the Institutional Review Board of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. [more]

Cincinnati Rheumatic Diseases Center Grant Renewed

The National Institutes of Health has renewed funding for the Cincinnati Rheumatic Diseases Center, an initiative that encourages interaction between rheumatology specialists and experts in bioinformatics and immunology. Computational Medicine Center investigators will provide bioinformatic support. [more]