Faculty Detail
Name
JOHN DAVID OSBORNE
Campus Address
THT 142 Zip 0006
Phone
(205) 996-0736
E-mail
ozborn@uab.edu
Other websites
Google Scholar
PubMed
Faculty Appointment(s)
Appointment Type
Department
Division
Rank
Primary
Associate Professor
Secondary
Computer Science
Computer Science
Assistant Professor
Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Associate Professor
Center
Ctr for Clinical & Translational Sci
Ctr for Clinical & Translational Sci
Associate Professor
Biographical Sketch
My background was in genetics at the University of Alberta before switching to computer science and doing bioinformatics. I originally focused on viral and microbial sequencing and sequence analysis before doing my PhD in Natural Language Processing at UAB. My lab primarily focuses on creating new methods and data sets to extract information from scientific and clinical text.
Research/Clinical Interest
Title
Clinical phenotyping and Natural Language Processing of Biomedical Text
Description
Identifying clinical phenotypes of interest using clinical text and electronic health records using machine learning. I also do information extraction in biomedical text as well as ontology and shared data set development.
Keywords
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Phenotyping, Concept Normalization