Package: lab2clean
Title: Automation and Standardization of Cleaning Clinical Laboratory
        Data
Version: 2.0.0
Authors@R: 
    c(person("Ahmed", "Zayed", , "ahmed.zayed@kuleuven.be", role = c("aut", "cre"),
    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-7797-1655")),
    person("Ilias", "Sarikakis", , "sarikakisilias@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "ctb")),
    person("Arne", "Janssens", , "arne.janssens@kuleuven.be", role = c("aut", "ctb")),
    person("Pavlos", "Mamouris", , "pavlos.mamouris@kuleuven.be", role = c("ctb")))
Description: Navigating the shift of clinical laboratory data from primary everyday clinical use to secondary research purposes presents a significant challenge. Given the substantial time and expertise required for lab data pre-processing and cleaning and the lack of all-in-one tools tailored for this need, we developed our algorithm 'lab2clean' as an open-source R-package. 'lab2clean' package is set to automate and standardize the intricate process of cleaning clinical laboratory results. With a keen focus on improving the data quality of laboratory result values and units, our goal is to equip researchers with a straightforward, plug-and-play tool, making it smoother for them to unlock the true potential of clinical laboratory data in clinical research and clinical machine learning (ML) model development. Functions to clean & validate result values (Version 1.0) are described in detail in 'Zayed et al. (2024)' <doi:10.1186/s12911-024-02652-7>. Functions to standardize & harmonize result units (added in Version 2.0) are described in detail in 'Zayed et al. (2025)' <doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2025.106131>.
License: GPL (>= 3)
Encoding: UTF-8
Imports: data.table, stats, utils
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, fansi, kableExtra, printr
VignetteBuilder: knitr
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Depends: R (>= 3.5)
LazyData: true
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2025-10-04 13:33:51 UTC; u0148644
Author: Ahmed Zayed [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7797-1655>),
  Ilias Sarikakis [aut, ctb],
  Arne Janssens [aut, ctb],
  Pavlos Mamouris [ctb]
Maintainer: Ahmed Zayed <ahmed.zayed@kuleuven.be>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2025-10-04 14:00:02 UTC
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