Shuying Shen
Research Associate, Div of Clinical Epidemiology
Graduate Student (Ph.D.), Biomedical Informatics
Biomedical Informatics
26 South 2000 East
Room 5775 HSEB
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Email:
Degrees:
2006 MStat Biostatistics University of Utah
Selected Publications:
Applying Annotation Methods to Electronic Clinical Documents to Identify Phenotypic Information: Where Should We Start the Search?
(Conference Paper), 2009
[abstract]
Optimizing A Syndromic Surveillance Text Classifier for Influenza-like Illness: Does Document Source Matter?
(Conference Paper), 2008
[citation]
[abstract]
Developing a Manually Annotated Clinical Document Corpus to Identify Phenotypic Information for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(Journal Article), 2009
[abstract]
Evaluation of the gold medal schools program.
(Journal Article), 2008
[citation]
[abstract]
A simulation-based evaluation of methods to estimate the impact of an adverse event on hospital length of stay
(Journal Article), 2007
[citation]
[abstract]
Research Statement
My research interests include machine learning and statistical methods in the area of natural language processing of clinical documents. My current main projects include implementation as well as evaluation of NLP systems and annotation tools. Some other projects I am working on are usage mining of log files from CPOE system, public health surveillance using school absenteeism data, and modeling measurement errors in human annotations.
Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:
Keywords:
Machine Learning (11); Natural Language Processing (10); Research Methods/Statistics (2)
Languages:
Cantonese (5); English (115); Mandarin (12)
Research Projects
ACCESS [details]
CHIR [details]
Public Health Surveillance using Absenteeism Data [details]
Current Courses
BMI 7010-1 Current Topics/Journal Club
Courses I Teach
BMI 7010 Current Topics/Journal Club