Pestian Lab Research
Our lab discovers how to teach computers to understand what neuro-psychiatric patients say. This research is often called natural language processing or computational linguistics. We do this by analyzing the free-text that we gather from the patients or large databases we developed over the years.
We are currently collaborating on studies related to epilepsy, suicide, and emergency medicine. For epilepsy we are building computer systems that will be used by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Colorado Children’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to understand the quality of epilepsy care. For suicide, we are developing systems to identify the likelihood that a suicidal patient will have a repeated attempt.
