Medical Informatics

Our research is often not focused on a particular application. However, there are many fascinating natural language processing problems to be found in the medical domain, which has led to our growing interest in the area of Medical Informatics.

We are developing measures of semantic similarity and relatedness for the biomedical domain.

We are developing a word sense disambiguation system (CuiTools) that disambiguates biomedical text relative to senses found in the UMLS.

A number of UMD graduate students have held summer internships at the Mayo Clinic, Division of Biomedical Informatics, in Rochester, Minnesota.

Summer 2005 :
- Anagha Kulkarni (presentation) and (report)
- Mahesh Joshi (presentation) and (report)
Summer 2004 :
- Bridget McInnes (see BioNLP 2007 paper)
Summer 2003 :
- Bridget McInnes (presentation)
- Siddharth Patwardhan (presentation) and (report)

Bridget McInnes is currently participating in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Medical and Graduate Student Training Program (March - September 2008).

Publications

Current Medical Informatics Collaborators

Serguei Pakhomov (Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Bridget McInnes (PhD advisee, University of Minnesota Twin Cities)

By: Ted Pedersen - tpederse AT d umn edu