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The Clinical Data Intelligence Project

A smart data initiative

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This article is about a new project that combines clinical data intelligence and smart data. It provides an introduction to the “Klinische Datenintelligenz” (KDI) project which is founded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi); we transfer research and development results (R&D) of the analysis of data which are generated in the clinical routine in specific medical domain. We present the project structure and goals, how patient care should be improved, and the joint efforts of data and knowledge engineering, information extraction (from textual and other unstructured data), statistical machine learning, decision support, and their integration into special use cases moving towards individualised medicine. In particular, we describe some details of our medical use cases and cooperation with two major German university hospitals.

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  1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Deutschland

    Daniel Sonntag

  2. Siemens, München, Deutschland

    Volker Tresp & Sonja Zillner

  3. Uker, Erlangen, Deutschland

    Alexander Cavallaro, Matthias Hammon, André Reis, Peter A. Fasching, Martin Sedlmayr, Thomas Ganslandt & Hans-Ulrich Prokosch

  4. Charité, Berlin, Deutschland

    Klemens Budde, Danilo Schmidt & Carl Hinrichs

  5. Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Deutschland

    Thomas Wittenberg

  6. Averbis, Freiburg, Deutschland

    Philipp Daumke

  7. IFG, Erlangen, Deutschland

    Patricia G. Oppelt

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Sonntag, D., Tresp, V., Zillner, S. et al. The Clinical Data Intelligence Project. Informatik Spektrum 39, 290–300 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00287-015-0913-x

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