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Sorry, I wasn't clear. I am working on a related project and trying to figur=
e out if the code can be repurposed for a lab mention annotator for cTAKES. =
=46rom what I have seen, test names from different institutions are not stan=
dardized which makes it hard to standardize the resulting annotation. Gettin=
g access to a larger lab tests dataset (structured) will help me fine tune t=
he model.=20
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Hope this helps.=20

Ajay
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> On Sep 29, 2014, at 2:12 PM, "Savova, Guergana" <Guergana.Savova@childrens=
.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> Ajay,
> cTAKES currently does not implement a method to discover labs from the tex=
t. The motivation is that you can get that easily from the structured part o=
f the EMR (what Pete explained below). Hope this makes sense!
> --Guergana
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Szolovits [mailto:psz@mit.edu]=20
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 2:32 PM
> To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
> Subject: Re: De-identified lab tests dataset
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> Ajay, I'm confused by your query.  cTakes is good at interpreting text, bu=
t most lab test results are reported in tabular form that is most appropriat=
ely searched by SQL queries.  Sometimes lab results are also reported in nar=
rative notes, but parsing those is often more a matter of deciphering the te=
xt structure of tables than of parsing real English text.  What am I misunde=
rstanding?
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> --Pete Sz.
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>> On Sep 29, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Ajay Jain <ajayjain@mobileinsights.net> wrot=
e:
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>> Hello All,
>>=20
>> I am working on a use case for lab tests data using cTAKES and my=20
>> online search to find a test dataset has been futile.  I'll greatly=20
>> appreciate if someone can share such a dataset or can point me in the=20
>> right direction to go looking for one.
>>=20
>> Best,
>> Ajay
>>=20
>> --
>> Founder & CEO
>> Mobile Insights, Inc.
>> (630) 408-8623
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