93 - NLP/ML for clinical data, with Alistair Johnson

In this episode, we invite Alistair Johnson to discuss the main challenge in applying NLP/ML to clinical domains: the lack of data. We discuss privacy concerns, de-identification, synthesizing records, legal liabilities and data heterogeneity. We also discuss how the MIMIC dataset evolved over the years, how it is being used, and some of the under-explored ways in which it can be used. Alistair’s homepage: http://alistairewj.github.io/ MIMIC dataset: https://mimic.physionet.org/