Will Hibbard(University at Buffalo) --
Summer 2022. UMLS Metathesaurus atom semantic grouping with context and lexical neural networks. [report][presentation]
Ximena A. Oyarzún González(University of Kentucky, Lexington) --
Summer 2022. Mapping NDC codes to ATC classification. [report][presentation]
2021
Goonmeet Bajaj(The Ohio State University) --
Summer 2021. Graph attentive networks for synonymy prediction at scale in the UMLS Metathesaurus. [report][presentation]
Thilini Wijesiriwardene(Artificial Intelligence Institute of University of South Carolina) --
Summer 2021. Pretraining language models for synonymy prediction at scale in the UMLS Metathesaurus. [report][presentation]
Vishesh Javangula(George Washington University) --
Summer 2021. A scalable framework for synonymy prediction: Inserting new biomedical terms into the UMLS. [report][presentation]
2019
Jean-Noël Nikiema(Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France) --
November-December 2019. Auditing the integration of RxNorm and medicinal products in SNOMED CT. [report]
Hong Yung (Joey) Yip(Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) --
Summer 2019. Automatic construction of UMLS Metathesaurus with deep learning. [report][presentation]
Karan Luthria(University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland) --
Summer 2019. Utilizing semantic and contextual measures to evaluate the similarity between disease
concepts. [report]
Rashmie Abeysinghe(University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky) --
Summer 2019. A deep learning approach to identifying missing hierarchical relations in SNOMED
CT. [report][presentation]
2018
SoonJye Kho(Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) --
Summer 2018. Drugs in death certificates: Automatic identification and classification . [report][presentation]
Jean-Noël Nikiema(Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France) --
Summer 2018. Integrating RxNorm with medicinal products in SNOMED CT. [report][presentation]
Amir Hossein Yazdavar(Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) --
Summer 2018. Contextual medical concept alignment for pharmacovigilance.
2017
Ann Cirincione(University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland) --
Summer 2017. Exploring genetic and phenotypic approaches to aggregating disease variants. [report][presentation]
Raja Cholan(Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon) --
Summer 2017. Interoperability between value sets for clinical research and healthcare -- Mapping value
sets between CDISC & MU. [report][presentation]
Tiffany Callahan(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Anschutz, Colorado) --
Summer 2017. Towards patient-driven phenotyping and similarity for precision medicine. [report][presentation]
Yael Ozair(Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona) --
Summer 2017. Assessment of drug prescriptions in pregnancy with new FDA standard. [report][presentation]
Satyajeet Raje(post-doctoral fellow) --
June 2016-May 2017. Investigating coverage of disease concepts across SNOMED CT and Disease Ontology /
Leveraging lexical features of concept names using Description Logics. [report][presentation]
2016
Maria Yang(Stanford University, Stanford, California) --
Summer 2016. An analysis of RxNorm clinical and branded drug similarity. [presentation]
Ferdinand Dhombres(post-doctoral fellow) --
November 2014-August 2016. Fetal medicine informatics research -- Exploring phenotype representation, teratogenic
agents dispensed during pregnancy, and fetal medicine terminology. [report]
2015
Lauren Evoy and Maria Yang(high-school students) --
Summer 2015. Facilitating the retrieval of OPM health plan guidance documents with an open source search
engine. [presentation]
Vahid Taslimitehrani(Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) --
Summer 2015. A new approach for summarizing SemRep predications. [report][presentation]
2014
Holly Thompson(NLM Library Associate Fellowship Program) --
Summer 2014. Beyond usage statistics: Who are the users of the RxNorm API and what are they using it
for?. [report]
Nathan Bahr(Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon) --
Summer 2014. Quality assurance of RxNorm value sets. [presentation]
Kalpa Gunaratna(Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) --
Summer 2014. Document retrieval using predication similarity. [report][presentation]
Rainer Winnenburg(post-doctoral fellow) --
January 2012-October 2014. Quality assurance of value sets / Extraction of adverse drug events from MEDLINE indexing /
Alignment of pharmacologic classes. [report]
Johann Stan(post-doctoral fellow) --
July 2013-October 2014. Extraction of drug-drug interactions from structured product labels. [report][presentation]
2013
Vinh Nguyen(Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) --
Summer 2013. knowledge-driven exploration of integrated biomedical knowledge sources. [report][presentation]
Delroy Cameron(Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) --
Summer 2013. Provenance and knowledge abstraction for reachability: A framework for knowledge
discovery. [report][presentation]
Bastien Rance(post-doctoral fellow) --
September 2010-June 2013. Looking for paradigm shifts in the biomedical literature. [presentation]
2012
Maryam Panahiazar(Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) --
Summer 2012. MUDDIS: A MUlti-Dimensional semantic integrative approach to comparing genes for knowledge
DIScovery. [presentation]
Liqin Wang(University of Utah) --
Summer 2012. Using UMLS Metathesaurus relations for managing biomedical knowledge from MEDLINE
citations. [report][presentation]
Tomasz Adamusiak(post-doctoral fellow) --
October 2011-March 2012. Quality Assurance in LOINC using Description Logic. [report][presentation]
2011
Caitlin Sticco(NLM Library Associate Fellowship Program) --
Summer 2011. Categorization of the requests submitted to the SNOMED CT National Release Center
(US). [report]
Thai Le(University of Washington, Seattle, WA) --
Summer 2011. Classification and visualization of UMLS source vocabularies through semantic group
profiles. [report][presentation]
Paul Rigor(University of California in Irvine) --
Summer 2011. An integrative approach to drug repositioning: a use case for semantic web
technologies. [report][presentation]
Jonathan Mortensen(Case Western Reserve University) --
Summer 2011. Semantic Web service annotation and composition for the RxNorm and NDF-RT APIs
. [report][presentation]
Vinh Nguyen(Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) --
Summer 2011. knowledge-driven exploration of integrated biomedical knowledge sources. [report][presentation]
Sivaram Arabandi(Visiting Scientist, Evolvers Group) --
April-May 2011. A knowledge-intensive approach for identifying adverse drug events in clinical
text. [presentation]
2010
Erika Pasceri(Università della Calabria, Italy) --
October-December 2010. Analyzing rare diseases terms in biomedical terminologies. [report][presentation]
Genaro Hernandez(post-baccalaureate fellow) --
September 2008-August 2010. Enhancement of drug-disease relations extracted from MEDLINE/PubMed for
visualization.
Delroy Cameron(Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) --
Summer 2010. Provenance and knowledge abstraction for reachability: A framework for knowledge
discovery. [report][presentation]
Brian Kirk(Rice University, Houston, TX) --
Summer 2010. Linking proteins to drugs -- Functional RDF utilization. [report][presentation]
Emily Doughty(University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD) --
Summer 2010. Linking proteins, mutations, and drugs -- Applications of data integration using
RDF. [report][presentation]
Jonathan Mortensen(Case Western Reserve University) --
Summer 2010. Evaluating pharmacologic classes in NDF-RT. [report][presentation]
Elena Cardillo(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy) --
April-July 2010. Integrating an Italian consumer health terminology with the UMLS using Semantic Web
Technologies. [presentation]
2009
GQ Zhang(Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH) --
November-December 2009. Lattice-based auditing of biomedical ontologies. [report][presentation]
Duo Wei(New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ) --
Summer 2009. Using Abstraction Network in complement to DL for quality assurance purposes in biomedical
terminologies. [report][presentation][picture]
2008
Mark Sharp(Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ) --
October 2007-July 2008. Characterization and integration of drug information sources. [report][presentation]
2007
Satya Sahoo(Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) --
Summer 2007. Integrating gene and pathway information about nicotine dependence. [report][presentation]
2006
Lowell Vizenor(post-doctoral fellow) --
September 2005-August 2006. A formal-ontological perspective on the UMLS. [report][presentation]
Satya Sahoo(University of Georgia, Athens) --
Summer 2006. Converting biological information to the W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF):
Experience with Entrez Gene. [report][presentation]
Michael Bales(Columbia University, NYC) --
Summer 2006. Evaluating the Restrict to MeSH algorithm. [report][presentation]
2005
Francisco Azuaje(University of Ulster, UK) --
September 2005. Linking Gene Ontology-driven similarity and gene co-expression in Mouse. [report][presentation]
Catherine Craven(University of Missouri, Columbia) --
Summer 2005. Exploring WordNet as a source of consumer health vocabulary. [report][presentation]
Edward Bunker(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) --
Summer 2005. The CDC's Controlled Health Thesaurus and the Unified Medical Language System. [report][presentation]
Sandy Tao(NLM Library Associate Fellowship Program) --
Nov. 2004-July 2005. Evaluation of a semi-automatic tool for indexing the biomedical literature using semantic
similarity in MeSH. [report]
Songmao Zhang(Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) --
April 2002-March 2005. A Framework for Comparing Medical Knowledge Representation Systems
Case study: the representation of anatomy in the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA)
and GALEN Common Reference Model (GALEN). [report][presentation][picture]
2004
Michael Jensen(University of Missouri, Columbia) --
Summer 2004. Web Services for the NLM . [report]
Malinda Peeples(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) --
Summer 2004. Developing a controlled vocabulary for education as a health care intervention. [report][presentation]
Christine Golbreich(University of Rennes, France) --
Summer 2004. Converting Frame-based Ontologies to OWL: The FMA case study.
2003
Lonelyss Charles(NLM Library Associate Fellowship Program) --
Nov. 2003-July 2004. Creating a bibliography for the UMLS.
Holli Huff(University of Utah, Salt Lake City) --
Summer 2003. Exploring methods for improving the integration of LOINC in the UMLS. [report][presentation]
Francisco Azuaje(University of Ulster, Jordanstown, UK) --
Summer 2003. Incorporating semantic similarity information into functional genomics. [report]
2002
Patrick Bradshaw(University of Missouri, Columbia) --
Summer 2002. Finding relationships between gene products using the Gene Ontology database. [report][presentation]
Mia Levy(Rush Medical College, Chicago) --
Spring 2002. Identifying the essence of clinical findings. [report][presentation]
Jorge Biolchini(Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) --
Spring 2002. Developing a UMLS-based ontology of cardiology procedures for cognitive support in medical
decision making. [report][presentation]
2001
Debbie Travers(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) --
Summer 2001. Identifying UMLS concepts in emergency department terms using domain knowledge and natural
language processing techniques. [report][presentation]
Anita Burgun(University of Rennes, France) --
July 2000-July 2001. An ontological perspective on the UMLS. [report][presentation]
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