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How to run FreeSurfer on Windows with WSL2

Freesurfer is available only for the Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. You can run FreeSurfer in Windows using a virtual machine, but that can slow down the processing a …

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Guilherme Bauer-Negrini
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Best biomedical and health data science books and resources

Biomedical data science spans a range of biological and medical research challenges that are data-intensive and focused on the creation of novel methodologies to advance biomedical …

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Guilherme Bauer-Negrini
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Biomedical text natural language processing (BioNLP) using scispaCy

Here we are going to see how to use scispaCy named entity recognition (NER) models to identify drug and disease names mentioned in a medical transcription dataset. Moreover, we are …

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Guilherme Bauer-Negrini
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Tolkien character or prescription drug name?

Bilbo, Silenor, Avandaryl, Nardil, Cymbalta. Only one of these is actually the name of a character created by J.R.R.Tolkien, author of the classic *The Lord of the Rings* trilogy. …

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Guilherme Bauer-Negrini