Data collected or produced during clinical care process can be exploited at different levels and across different domains. Yet, a well-known challenge for secondary use of health big data is that much of detailed patient information is embedded in narrative text, mostly stored as unstructured data. The project proposes to address the essential needs when reusing unstructured clinical data at a large scale. We propose to develop new clinical records representation relying on fine-grained semantic annotation thanks to new NLP tools dedicated to French clinical narratives. To efficiently map this added semantic information to existing structured data for further analysis at big scale, the project also addresses distributed systems issues: scalability, management of uncertain data and privacy, stream processing at runtime, etc.
| Dates: September 2016 – August 2019 Contact: Vincent Claveau |
