Interests:

Clinical Natural Language Processing, Outcomes analysis

Background:

Dr. Yetisgen is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington. She leads the UW-BioNLP group. Her group’s research is on natural language processing and its application to clinical domain to enable meaningful secondary-use applications that have direct impact on improving quality of patient care and advancing clinical research. Dr. Yetisgen’s research has been funded by National Institutes of Health (NIBIB and NCI), Microsoft, and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Research:

Statistical natural language processing, bio-medical text mining and information retrieval.

Teaching:

Currently accepting new MS, PhD, and Post-doc students.

Current projects:

• Large scale clinical and economic impact analysis of potentially malignant incidental findings in radiology reports
• Extraction of Symptom Burden from Clinical Narratives of Cancer Patients using Natural Language Processing

Representative publications:

Please see https://faculty.washington.edu/melihay/ for the complete list of publications.