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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 little. One alternative is to use Windows Subsystem for Linux. Here, I’ll show you how to do it!

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 science discovery. Here is a listing of some resources that I have found while researching and studying this field.

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 going to combine NER and rule-based matching to extract the drug names and dosages reported in each transcription.

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. Could we solve this problem using artificial neural networks?