2nd Position of Best Paper Award — ICBHI 2017 & TinnitusTreatmentMonitor

[vermillion]

2nd Position of Best Paper Award - ICBHI 2017
A research team headed by Prof. Myra Spiliopoulou, University of Magdeburg, Germany, was awarded the second price in the "best paper award" at the ICBHI 2017, 18-21 November 2017 in Thessaloniki, Greece - "Patient Empowerment through summarization of discussion threads on treatments in a patient self-help forum"

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Patient Empowerment Through Summarization of Discussion Threads on Treatments in a Patient Self-help Forum

Authors: Sourabh Dandage, Johannes Huber, Atin Janki, Uli Niemann, Ruediger Pryss, Manfred Reichert, Stevearrison, Markku Vessala, Winfried Schlee, Thomas Probst, Myra Spiliopoulou

Publisher: Springer Singapore

Abstract
Self-help patient fora are widely used for information acquisition and exchange of experiences, e.g., on the effects of medical treatments for a disease. However, a new patient may have difficulties in getting a fast overview of the information inside a large forum. We propose TinnitusTreatmentMonitor, a prototype tool for the summarization and sentiment characterization of postings on medical treatments. We report on applying TinnitusTreatmentMonitor on the platform TinnitusTalk, a self-help platform for tinnitus patients.

Related links:
http://tinnet.tinnitusresearch.net/
http://icbhi.med.auth.gr/awards/
https://www.springerprofessional.de...summarization-of-discussion-threads-/15232222

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Hey @Steve and @Markku,
I was skimming the TINNET website today and came across with these news.

Btw Thessaloniki is my hometown.

Congratulations! Will you tell us more about this TinnitusTreatmentMonitor? Is there any reference in the forum that I missed? Sounds like good news.

 

[Markku]

Thanks @vermillion! Great to see some have a keen eye A lot of the kudos deservedly go to Myra and her students and Rüdiger who fantastically presented the paper at the ICBHI.

There is no reference to the TinnitusTreatmentMonitor here - it's an early version program and not polished for the average visitor. It is our wish of course that it evolves from the prototype to something more.

In simplistic terms it allows monitoring discussed treatments, their activity level over time, etc. As an example, you can check the keyword "am-101", see where it's been discussed, how the activity of discussions has varied over time etc.

 

[vermillion]

It is our wish of course that it evolves from the prototype to something more.

Fingers crossed. That would be very helpful. Thanks @Markku.