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Overview

Guergana Savova is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research integrates fields of medicine and computer science, focusing heavily on artificial intelligence applications within healthcare.

The scientist's main fields of study include Medicine and Computer Science. Within these areas, their work extends into several specialized subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Neurology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Health Informatics.

Savova's research topics cover a diverse range of subjects, including:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Large language models to identify social determinants of health in electronic health records," 2024, npj Digital Medicine
  • "Use of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots for Cancer Treatment Information," 2023, JAMA Oncology
  • "The TRIPOD-LLM reporting guideline for studies using large language models," 2025, Nature Medicine
  • "Evaluating the ChatGPT family of models for biomedical reasoning and classification," 2024, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • "Clinical Natural Language Processing for Radiation Oncology: A Review and Practical Primer," 2021, International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics

Savova's frequent coauthors include Danielle S. Bitterman, Sean Finan, Raymond H. Mak, Dmitriy Dligach, and Hugo J.W.L. Aerts.

Key publication venues where Savova has contributed multiple works include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Mayo clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES): architecture, component evaluation and applications

    Guergana K Savova;James J Masanz;Philip V Ogren;Jiaping Zheng

  • Extracting information from textual documents in the electronic health record: a review of recent research.

    S. M. Meystre;G. K. Savova;K. C. Kipper-Schuler;J. F. Hurdle

  • PheKB: A catalog and workflow for creating electronic phenotype algorithms for transportability

    Jacqueline Kirby;Peter Speltz;Luke V. Rasmussen;Melissa A. Basford

  • Overcoming barriers to NLP for clinical text: the role of shared tasks and the need for additional creative solutions

    Wendy Webber Chapman;Prakash M. Nadkarni;Lynette Hirschman;Leonard W. D'Avolio;Leonard W. D'Avolio

  • Overview of the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2013

    Hanna Suominen;Sanna Salanterä;Sumithra Velupillai;Wendy W. Chapman

  • Clinical Natural Language Processing in languages other than English: opportunities and challenges

    Aurélie Névéol;Hercules Dalianis;Sumithra Velupillai;Sumithra Velupillai;Guergana Savova

  • Development of phenotype algorithms using electronic medical records and incorporating natural language processing

    Katherine P Liao;Katherine P Liao;Tianxi Cai;Guergana K Savova;Shawn N Murphy

  • Building a robust, scalable and standards-driven infrastructure for secondary use of EHR data

    Susan Rea;Jyotishman Pathak;Guergana Savova;Thomas A. Oniki

  • SemEval-2016 Task 12: Clinical TempEval

    Steven Bethard;Guergana Savova;Wei-Te Chen;Leon Derczynski

  • Temporal Annotation in the Clinical Domain

    William F. Styler;Steven Bethard;Sean Finan;Martha Palmer

  • The emerging role of electronic medical records in pharmacogenomics

    R. A. Wilke;H. Xu;J. C. Denny;D. M. Roden

  • Automatically extracting cancer disease characteristics from pathology reports into a Disease Knowledge Representation Model

    Anni Coden;Guergana Savova;Igor Sominsky;Michael Tanenblatt

  • SemEval-2015 Task 14: Analysis of Clinical Text

    Noémie Elhadad;Sameer Pradhan;Sharon Gorman;Suresh Manandhar

  • Using Natural Language Processing to Improve Efficiency of Manual Chart Abstraction in Research: The Case of Breast Cancer Recurrence

    David S. Carrell;Scott Halgrim;Diem Thy Tran;Diana S M Buist

  • SemEval-2015 Task 6: Clinical TempEval

    Steven Bethard;Leon Derczynski;Guergana Savova;James Pustejovsky

  • Improving case definition of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in electronic medical records using natural language processing: a novel informatics approach.

    Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan;Tianxi Cai;Guergana Savova;Su Chun Cheng

  • Use of Natural Language Processing to Extract Clinical Cancer Phenotypes from Electronic Medical Records

    Guergana K Savova;Ioana Danciu;Folami Alamudun;Timothy Miller;Timothy Miller

  • Evaluating the state of the art in disorder recognition and normalization of the clinical narrative.

    Sameer Pradhan;Noémie Elhadad;Brett R. South;David Martínez

  • Towards comprehensive syntactic and semantic annotations of the clinical narrative.

    Daniel Albright;Arrick Lanfranchi;Anwen Fredriksen;William F. Styler

  • Leveraging informatics for genetic studies: use of the electronic medical record to enable a genome-wide association study of peripheral arterial disease

    Iftikhar J Kullo;Jin Fan;Jyotishman Pathak;Guergana K Savova

  • A common type system for clinical natural language processing

    Stephen T Wu;Vinod C Kaggal;Dmitriy Dligach;James J Masanz

Frequent Co-Authors

Isaac S. Kohane
Isaac S. Kohane Harvard University
Christopher G. Chute
Christopher G. Chute Johns Hopkins University
Wendy W. Chapman
Wendy W. Chapman University of Melbourne
Steven Bethard
Steven Bethard University of Arizona
Robert M. Plenge
Robert M. Plenge Bristol Myers Squibb
Sameer Pradhan
Sameer Pradhan Vassar College
Noémie Elhadad
Noémie Elhadad Columbia University
Martha Palmer
Martha Palmer University of Colorado Boulder
Philip L. De Jager
Philip L. De Jager Columbia University

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