Further Information

Introduction

MedLEE and the CIS

Technical Description

Further Information

Glossary

 

MedLEE Researchers:

MedLEE Designer

Carol Friedman PhD

Collaborating faculty

Stephen Johnson PhD

George Hripcsak MD

James Cimino MD

Students and fellows involved with MedLEE

Irina Shablinski PhD

Adam Wilcox MA MPhil

David Campbell

Guoguang Ma

 

Licensing Information:

MedLEE is a production system open for licensure. Researchers or developers interested in working with MedLEE's technology should contact the Center for Advanced Technology for more information.

 

Demonstration:

An online demonstration of the MedLEE processor is available.

 

Some recent articles on MedLEE: (Search MEDLINE)

1. Knirsch CA. Jain NL. Pablos-Mendez A. Friedman C. Hripcsak G. Respiratory isolation of tuberculosis patients using clinical guidelines and an automated clinical decision support system. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 19(2):94-100, 1998 Feb.

2. Hripcsak G. Kuperman GJ. Friedman C. Extracting findings from narrative reports: software transferability and sources of physician disagreement. Methods of Information in Medicine. 37(1):1-7, 1998 Jan.

3. Jain NL. Friedman C. Identification of findings suspicious for breast cancer based on natural language processing of mammogram reports. Proceedings/AMIA Annual Fall Symposium. :829-33, 1997.

4. Friedman C. Towards a comprehensive medical language processing system: methods and issues. Proceedings/AMIA Annual Fall Symposium. :595-9, 1997.

5. Jain NL. Knirsch CA. Friedman C. Hripcsak G. Identification of suspected tuberculosis patients based on natural language processing of chest radiograph reports. Proceedings/AMIAAnnual Fall Symposium. :542-6, 1996.

6. Johnson SB. Friedman C. Integrating data from natural language processing into a clinical information system. Proceedings/AMIA Annual Fall Symposium. :537-41, 1996.

7. Hripcsak G. Friedman C. Alderson PO. DuMouchel W. Johnson SB. Clayton PD. Unlocking clinical data from narrative reports: a study of natural language processing Annals of Internal Medicine. 122(9):681-8, 1995 May 1.

8. Friedman C. Johnson SB. Forman B. Starren J. Architectural requirements for a multipurpose natural language processor in the clinical environment. Proceedings - the Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. :347-51, 1995.

 

Government and other Medical Informatics NLP groups