Hi Tom, Are you interested in catching all allergies or just a few specific allergies for a study? If you are only concerned with a few then there is a (possibly) simple solution. If you are interested in throwing a wider net then I think that a new module would need to be created; does anybody reading this have an ML or regex style module?
Sean -----Original Message----- From: Tom Devel [mailto:deve...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 12:42 PM To: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: Allergy Annotator Hi, I would like to use/extend cTAKES to detect allergies. In the cTAKES publication (2010) https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov_pmc_articles_PMC2995668_&d=BQIFaQ&c=qS4goWBT7poplM69zy_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r=fs67GvlGZstTpyIisCYNYmQCP6r0bcpKGd4f7d4gTao&m=ZApJmGKjzvFfNco5rRFVwSIyxmg4MRsxakfuXHbMZME&s=mGWu0XBCJqG2MI5qPlwIpGbQL5IYe7t5EWcvhPYW7Lo&e= there is the mention that: "Allergies to a given medication are handled by setting the negation attribute of that medication to ‘is negated’." However, in a post here in 2014 (RE: Allergy Indication) it is said that cTAKES does not have a module for allergy discovery. 1. What is the current status of allergy detection in cTAKES? 2. I did some testing, while cTAKES discovers concepts about allegies ("wheat allergy" is found as C0949570), using "ALLERGIES: PENICILLIN, WHEAT" or "The patient is allergic to penicillin." does not give penicillin or wheat annotations allergy status. How would I go about detecting these allergy mentions? Thanks, Tom
