Applications are invited for a Research Assistant or Research Associate
   position on text mining of electronic health care records in the
   Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at the School of
   Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

   1) Job Details
   Job title: Research Assistant/Research Associate

   School: School of Informatics
   Line manager: Principal Investigator for the research programme

   Please contact Beatrice Alex with any
   enquiries ([1]balex@staffmail.ed.ac.uk).

   2) Project Details

   The position is part of study of a wider project in collaboration with
   the Centre for Clinical Brain Science on “Leveraging routinely
   collected and linked research data to study the causes and consequences
   of common mental disorders” funded by MRC (Mental Health Data
   Pathfinder Award). The study will mine neuroimaging data held in
   electronic health records to investigate the relationship between
   mental health and recovery from common medical and neurological
   conditions. It will determine whether there are systematic neuroimaging
   differences between those with and without psychiatric symptoms,
   focusing on post-stroke depression as an exemplar model for other
   disorders.

   Text mining methods will be researched and developed to derive
   information from radiologist reports about CT and MRI brain imaging and
   link it to mental health outcomes. This work will use and build on an
   existing text mining system developed for unstructured neuroimaging
   reports of patients who suffered from stroke. The text mining involves
   four main tasks: named entity recognition, relation extraction,
   negation detection and document labelling. The project will investigate
   using machine learning methods for these tasks and evaluating their
   performance against existing rule-based methods.

   The position will be an opportunity to conduct research on deep
   learning using neural networks within the wider context of health care
   text analytics and data science.
   More information can be found here:
   [2]https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version
   _4.jobspec?p_id=045989

References

   1. mailto:balex@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
   2. https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=045989