The abridged version of my log:Day 1:
Worked on the presentation I'm giving at the Medical Informatics Presentation this Wednesday, which means I mainly put together a PowerPoint presentation detailing the background for this project, and what my project can do. I also talked with Onard about the sorts of clinical questions he sees this program being able to answer, or hopefully can answer in the future. Started looking online for guidelins on how to write AMIA papers, and read some papers previously published.Day 2:
Reviewed some of the AMIA papers I have as a guide, and read the online guidelines as well for writing an AMIA paper. Outlined the basic structure of my paper, and started to write it. And wrote and wrote...Day 3:
Finished writing the methods section of the AMIA paper, in which I detail how to use the program and what sort of queries the program supports. That's the guts of the paper, I believe, but still left is the discussion in which I talk about real world applications, usefulness, and further directions to go. I also attended the biomedical informatics undergraduate summer symposium, in which I gave a presentation about the project.Day 4:
Finished a draft of the AMIA paper. Talked with Onard about examples to use in it, and fleshed out the pulmonary embolism example I used yesterday in the presentation. I also talked with CR briefly about it. Linda reviewed my paper and added comments and corrections. I still need to put in some figures and incorporate her suggestions. She also tried out the program, which (of course!) turned up some bugs that I need to fix before finding Eider tomorrow about backing it up.Day 5:
Fixed a problem on taking the complement of a set (it was only giving me a partial list, and thus messing up the intersection operation). Also did some last minute overhauling of the set operations, since some testing indicates that the old method was not intuitive and confusing. That eliminated a semantic discrepancy that existed before, but might also give errors, although some quick testing failed to unearth any. Sent a zipped version to Kurt, and wrote a how-to doc to go with it on how to run the program, where important files are located, and what to change to modify parameters. And that's about all, folks. I'll write more docs later, but not here and not now. Signing off--Emily