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+# Bleeding Detection
+
+This repository contains python scripts used in the study at The University of Utah Department of Cardiovascular Medicine to detect bleeding events among patients using natural language processing.
+
+## Directory Structure
+
+```
+bleeding-detection
+|
++-- src
+|	|
+|	+-- data
+|	|
+|	+-- results
+|	|
+|	+-- extract.py
+|
+|
++-- README.md
+```
+
+## Method
+
+### Usage
+
+To extract clinical notes without noise from the training (-t) or validation (-v) metadata, run the following command on CLI:
+
+```
+python extract.py [-t | -v] <phrase_length>
+```
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