Medical-Event-Data-Standard / Medical-Event-Data-Standard/MEDS-DEV
We need to improve the initial set of supported tasks
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Tasks
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 43
- Forks
- 10
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
The current set of tasks has some challenges, both in technical and conceptual realization. This issue tracks some improvements to them, including:
- Improving configuration file predicate assignments.
- Adding a more robust task specification process and information about each task.
- Adding dataset-suitability metadata to tasks.
- Refining the set of ICU focused tasks.
- Adding additional tasks on other clinical domains.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue does not name files, tests, or entry points, and it groups several independent changes involving task predicates, specifications, metadata, and clinical coverage. Start by locating the task definitions and configuration handling in the repository, then establish separate acceptance criteria for each proposed improvement before making changes.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- machine-learning
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100