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From:       "Sally Khudairi" <sk () apache ! org>
Date:       2020-09-21 10:01:55
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[this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/x1051 ]

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
ApacheCon is the official global conference series of The Apache Software 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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