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New track on Apache’s only project focused on biomedical informatics features 
sessions presented by Apache cTAKES community representatives from the 
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Boston Children’s Hospital’s Computational 
Health Informatics Program (CHIP), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Dell 
EMC, Geisinger Health, Loyola University Chicago, and University of California 
San Francisco.

Wakefield, MA —21 September 2020— ApacheCon, the official conference series of 
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the world’s largest Open Source 
foundation, announced today its first dedicated track on Apache cTAKES. The 
track will be held on all three days of the ApacheCon@Home virtual conference, 
taking place online 29 September - 1 October 2020. Registration is free of 
charge for all participants and is required in advance to participate.

Now in its 22nd year, ApacheCon is the primary gathering of the collective 
Apache community worldwide, drawing attendees from more than 130 countries. 
ApacheCon showcases the latest breakthroughs from dozens of Apache projects, 
upcoming innovations in the Apache Incubator, and sessions on developing 
community-led Open Source projects "The Apache Way".

Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis Knowledge Extraction System) is the Open 
Source natural language processing (NLP) system for information extraction from 
electronic medical records (EMR) and health-related free-text. cTAKES 
originated in 2006 by a team of physicians, computer scientists, and software 
engineers at Mayo Clinic, was submitted to the Apache Incubator in June 2012, 
led by the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children’s 
Hospital, and graduated as an Apache Top-Level Project in April 2013. cTAKES is 
the only Apache project focused on biomedical informatics software, and, during 
the ASF’s 20th Anniversary celebrations in 2019, was named one of the 20 most 
influential Apache projects.

cTAKES was built using the Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management 
Architecture) framework and Apache OpenNLP machine-learning based toolkit. 
cTAKES identifies signals important for the biomedical domain, including types 
of clinical named entities mapped to various biomedical 
terminologies/ontologies such as the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) 
—drugs, diseases/disorders, signs/symptoms, anatomical sites and procedures 
along with their associated attributes such as negation, uncertainty, and more. 
Apache cTAKES components create rich linguistic and semantic annotations that 
can be utilized by clinical decision support systems and clinical research.

The cTAKES track is organized and presented by members of the Apache cTAKES 
project and its community. The track introduces new users to its standard 
features for biomedical text processing software, including the ability to 
extract concepts such as symptoms, procedures, diagnoses, medications and 
anatomy with attributes and standard codes. Several advanced presentations will 
exemplify its modular engineering and its leading-edge machine learning 
methods. Components implementing these research-driven methods can, for 
instance, identify complex relations between entities (e.g. anatomical site of 
a disease) and relations between temporal elements – resulting in the placement 
of events in a patient timeline. Session presenters include:

 - Peter Abramowitsch, University of California San Francisco
 - Siamak Barzegar, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
 - Dmitriy Dligach, Loyola University Chicago 
 - Sean Finan, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston 
Children's Hospital
 - Chen Lin, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston 
Children’s Hospital
 - Jeff Miller, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
 - Debdipto Misra, Geisinger Health
 - Gandhirajan N, Dell EMC

Apache cTAKES can impact patient health at many levels, and presentations at 
ApacheCon range from “Automated Adverse Drug Event Surveillance in Pediatric 
Pulmonary Hypertension” to “Extraction of Information on Diagnosis of Stroke” 
in Spanish to “High Throughput Orchestration” on notes involving COVID-19, 
amongst others. Track details can are available at 
https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/ctakes.html 

In addition to cTAKES, ApacheCon@Home features an array of presentations on 
Apache projects across categories that include Big Data, Community, Content 
Delivery, Databases, Fintech, Geospatial, Innovation/Incubator, Integration, 
IoT, Machine Learning, Search, Servers, Software Development, Streaming, and 
more. A special track in the Mandarin language, as well as select sessions in 
German, Hindi, and Spanish will be held as well.

ApacheCon keynotes will be delivered by high profile speakers from 
organizations such as DataStax, IBM, Imply, Instaclustr, NASA Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Labs, Red Hat, Tetrate, Two Sigma, and VMWare.

Register today at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/ . Select sessions will be 
recorded and available following the event.

For more information on Apache cTAKES, visit http://ctakes.apache.org/ 

About ApacheCon
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Foundation. Since 1998 ApacheCon has been drawing participants at all levels to 
explore ”Tomorrow’s Technology Today” across 350+ Apache projects and their 
diverse communities. ApacheCon showcases the latest developments in ubiquitous 
Apache projects and emerging innovations through hands-on sessions, keynotes, 
real-world case studies, trainings, hackathons, community events, and more. 
ApacheCon events in 2020 have been consolidated to ApacheCon@Home, a new, 
virtual conference that takes place online 29 September - 1 October 2020. 
Registration is free to all, with advance registration required. For more 
information, visit http://apachecon.com/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheCon .

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