REBECKA WEEGAR

I am a PhD student with the Clinical Text Mining Group at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University. My supervisors are professor Hercules Dalianis at DSV, and professor Søren Brunak at DTU, Technical University of Denmark. My area is text mining, and my aim is to find cancer symptoms and comorbidities in electronic patient records. I am currently working with the Stockholm Electronic Patient Record Corpus, a large database of Swedish health records, with the aim to identify symptoms and patterns in patients diagnosed with cervical cancer. I am also working with information extraction from pathology reports in cooperation with the Cancer Registry of Norway I have an MSc in software engineering from Lund University, where I wrote my master thesis in natural language processing. I got my degree in the fall of 2014 and began my PhD studies in 2015.