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Last updated: June 30, 2008

Dina Demner-Fushman, MD., Ph.D.

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Dr. Dina Demner-Fushman is a Staff Scientist for the Communications Engineering Branch at the National Library of Medicine. She conducts research in clinical decision support, clinical question answering, use of natural language processing in information retrieval, human computer interaction aspects of information retrieval, and information retrieval in biomedical domain. Her interest in biomedical language processing stems from years of clinical practice (M.D. obtained from Kazan State Medical Institute in 1980) and clinical research (Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Medical Science earned from Moscow Medical and Stomatological Institute in 1989.) She earned her MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2003 and 2006, respectively. She earned her Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Hunter College, CUNY in 2000.

Current Projects

Repository for Informed Decision Making (RIDeM): I am leading the development of data mining tools to automatically create a repository to support targeted access to key facts extracted from biomedical literature sources that are needed for informed clinical decision making. The development is guided by the Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) principles for finding and appraising information.

Image and Text Integration (ITI): The goal of this project is to develop robust algorithms to augment the repository of facts for informed clinical decision making with images. This research focuses on the algorithms for automatic biomedical image annotation by utility for evidence-based practice, and integration of text and image content search strategies. Sameer Antani and I lead this development combining our complementary strengths in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) and textual searching, respectively.