We are a creative research group of computer scientists, engineers, computational linguists and physicians, that are performing research in both language technology and in health informatics, particulary we are trying to interpret clinical texts using both domain experts and machines. We are aiming to create the future tools for clinicians, tools at the cutting edge in computer science and computational linguisitics. Our research is based on data from the Stockholm EPR Corpus contained in HEALTH BANK - Swedish HEALTH Record Research Bank. Stockholm EPR Corpus encompasses more than two million patient records in Swedish from the years 2006-2014. We have developed a number of tools and created a set of lexical resources. For possible applications please read here (in Swedish).
We are involved in the following research projects:

Ongoing projects

"Artificial Intelligence analyses the patient records. Is this possible and can that improve healthcare?” Book project

NIASC-Nordic Center of Excellence in Health-Related eSciences
Center, funded by Nordforsk, Nordic Council of Ministers.

MINECAN - Data and text mining of cancer symptoms and comorbidities in electronic patient records in the Nordic languages, funded by NIASC-Nordforsk.

Completed projects

AVID - Avidentifiering för sekundär användning av patientjournaler (In English: De-identification for secondary use of patient records)

High-Performance Data Mining for Drug Effect Detection (in Swedish: Dataanalys för detektion av läkemedelseffekter, DADEL)

Automated translation of radiology reports into general Swedish – part of the democratization process in health care

De-puzzling Time: Improving information access from Swedish medical records by modeling temporal expressions

Detect-HAI - Detection of Hospital Acquired Infections through language technology

HIPPA-Hospital Intelligence for better patient security
(In Swedish: HIPPA-Hospital Intelligence för bättre patientsäkerhet)

Interlock: Stockholm - San Diego - Inter-Language collaboration in clinical NLP

Stockholm EPR Open- Öppna stängda journaler genom aggregerad klinisk information, för bättre hälsa. 
(Releasing aggregated clinical information for Releasing aggregated clinical information for better research and health)

Visualisation of comorbidity network with Comorbidity-View

HEXAnord –HEalth teXt Analysis network in the Nordic and Baltic countries

Photo of group

Aron, Sara, Gunnar, Martin, Hideyuki, Mia, Maria, Sumithra and Hercules

Group members

• Group leader: Hercules Dalianis, professor
• Martin Duneld, PhD
• Aron Henriksson, PhD
• Mahbub Ul Alam, PhD student
• Rebecka Weegar, PhD student
• Alicia Peréz, PhD, visiting researcher

Former participants:

• Alyaa Alfalahi
• Helen Allvin
• Andreas Amsenius
• Sara Brissman
• Elin Carlsson
• Claudia Ehrentraut
• Olof Jacobson
• Mia Kvist, M.D., PhD
• Gunnar Nilsson, M.D. Guest Professor
• Maria Skeppstedt, PhD, postdoc at Linneus University/University of Potsdam, Germany.
• Kelly Smith
• Hideyuki Tanushi

• Sumithra Velupillai, PhD, KTH postdoc at King's College, London

Master theses and reports

Niklas Isenius. 2012. Abbreviation detection in Swedish Medical Records, The Development of SCAN, a Swedish Clinical Abbreviation Normalizer, Master Thesis, Stockholm University, PDF.

Ludvig Falck and Omid Samadi. 2012. Compound splitting of Swedish medical words - An evaluation of the Compound Splitter software, Scientific course report, Stockholm University. PDF (647 Kb) .

Master thesis proposals 2014

  Master thesis proposals 2013 (228 Kb)