Qing Treitler Zeng, PhD

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Assistant Professor
Decision Systems Group
Harvard Medical School

Research Associate
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Affliated Faculty
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Biography

Dr. Zeng is trained in computer science (MS, University of Hawaii, 1995) and medical informatics (PhD, Columbia University, 1999). She has worked on a number of research projects in the areas of semantic knowledge-based systems, information retrieval, vocabulary and natural language processing. Her current research interests are consumer-centered computing and semantic knowldge-based information retrieval/presentation. In the past 5 years, she has led or participared in the following projects:

Contact Information

Location:

Thorn 304, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA02115

Phone:

617-732-7694

Fax:

617-739-3672

Email:

qzeng@dsg.bwh.harvard.edu

Bibliography:

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  1. Zeng Q, Cimino JJ. Mapping medical vocabularies to the Unified Medical Language System. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp 1996:105-9.
  2. Cimino JJ, Elhanan G, Zeng Q. Supporting infobuttons with terminological knowledge. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp 1997:528-32.
  3. Zeng Q, Cimino JJ. Linking a clinical system to heterogeneous information resources. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp 1997:553-7.
  4. Zeng Q, Cimino JJ. Automated knowledge extraction from the UMLS. Proc AMIA Symp 1998:568-72.
  5. Zeng Q, Cimino JJ. Evaluation of a system to identify relevant patient information and its impact on clinical information retrieval. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:642-6.
  6. Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Tu S, Lacson R, et al. GLIF3: the evolution of a guideline representation format. Proc AMIA Symp 2000:645-9.
  7. Ash N, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Ohno-Machado L. Finding appropriate clinical trials: evaluating encoded eligibility criteria with incomplete data. Proc AMIA Symp 2001:27-31.
  8. Boxwala AA, Tu S, Peleg M, Zeng Q, Ogunyemi O, Greenes RA, et al. Toward a representation format for sharable clinical guidelines. J Biomed Inform 2001;34(3):157-69.
  9. Kogan S, Zeng Q, Ash N, Greenes RA. Problems and challenges in patient information retrieval: a descriptive study. Proc AMIA Symp 2001:329-33.
  10. Peleg M, Ogunyemi O, Tu S, Boxwala AA, Zeng Q, Greenes RA, et al. Using features of Arden Syntax with object-oriented medical data models for guideline modeling. Proc AMIA Symp 2001:523-7.
  11. Zeng Q, Kogan S, Ash N, Greenes RA. Patient and clinician vocabulary: how different are they? Medinfo 2001;10(Pt 1):399-403.
  12. Zeng Q, Young AJ, Boxwala A, Rawn J, Long W, Wand M, et al. Molecular identification using flow cytometry histograms and information theory. Proc AMIA Symp 2001:776-80.
  13. Zeng Q, Cimino JJ. A knowledge-based, concept-oriented view generation system for clinical data. J Biomed Inform 2001;34(2):112-28.
  14. Kim EY, Zeng Q, Rawn J, Wand M, Young AJ, Milford E, et al. Using a neural network with flow cytometry histograms to recognize cell surface protein binding patterns. Proc AMIA Symp 2002:380-4.
  15. Zeng Q, Kogan S, Ash N, Greenes RA, Boxwala AA. Characteristics of consumer terminology for health information retrieval. Methods Inf Med 2002;41(4):289-98.
  16. Zeng Q, Wand M, Young AJ, Rawn J, Milford EL, Mentzer SJ, et al. Matching of flow-cytometry histograms using information theory in feature space. Proc AMIA Symp 2002:929-33.
  17. Zeng Q, Cimino JJ, Zou KH. Providing concept-oriented views for clinical data using a knowledge-based system: an evaluation. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2002;9(3):294-305.
  18. Boxwala AA, Zeng Q, Chamberas A, Sato L, Dierks M. Coverage of patient safety terms in the UMLS Metathesaurus. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2003; 110-114.
  19. Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Tu S, Zeng Q, Ogunyemi O, Wang D, et al. The InterMed Approach to Sharable Computer-interpretable Guidelines: A Review. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2004;11(1):1-10.
  20. Zeng QT, Kogan S, Plovnick R, Crowell J, Greenes RA, Lacroix EM. Positive attitude and failed queries: an exploration of the conundrums of consumer health information retrieval. Int J Med Inf. 2004 Feb;73(1):45-55.
  21. Crowell J, Zeng QT, Ngo L, Lacroix EM; A Frequency-based Technique to Improve the Spelling Suggestion Rank in Medical Queries. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004 May-Jun;11(3):179-85.
  22. Boxwala AA, Peleg M, Tu S, Ogunyemi O, Zeng QT, Wang D, Patel VL, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. GLIF3: a representation format for sharable computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines. J Biomed Inform. 2004 Jun;37(3):147-61.
  23. Wang D, Peleg M, Tu SW, Boxwala AA, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Greenes RA, Patel VL, Shortliffe EH Design and implementation of the GLIF3 guideline execution engine. J Biomed Inform, 2004. 37(5): p. 305-18.
  24. Zeng QT, Kogan S, Ngo L, Greenes RA; Relationships among different subjective measurements of consumer health information retrieval performance; MedInfo  2004.
  25. Plovnick RM, Zeng QT. Reformulation of Consumer Health Queries with Professional Terminology: A Pilot Study. J Med Internet Res, 2004. 6(3): p. e27.
  26. Zeng QT, Tse T, Crowell J, Divita G, Roth L, Browne AC. Identifying Consumer-Friendly Display (CFD) Names for Health Concepts. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005:859-63.
  27. Zeng QT, Kim E, Crowell J, Tse T. A Text Corpora-Based Estimation of the Familiarity of Health Terminology; ISBMDA 2005:184-192.
  28. Sordo M and Zeng Q. On Sample Size and Classification Accuracy: A Performance Comparison. ISBMDA 2005 193-201
  29. Zeng QT, Tse T. Exploring and developing consumer health vocabularies. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Jan-Feb;13(1):24-9.
  30. Zeng QT, Crowell J, Plovnick RM, Kim E, Ngo L, Dibble E. Assisting consumer health information retrieval with query recommendations. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Jan-Feb;13(1):80-90.
  31. Zeng QT, Goryachev S, Weiss S, Sordo M, Murphy SN, Lazarus R. Extracting principal diagnosis, co-morbidity and smoking status for asthma research: evaluation of a natural language processing system. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2006 Jul 26;6(1):30.
  32. Zeng QT, Pratt JP, Pak J, Ravnic D, Huss H, Mentzer SJ. Feature-guided clustering of multi-dimensional flow cytometry datasets. J Biomed Inform. 2006. In Press.


    33. Thesis
      Zeng Q. A Knowledge-based Concept-oriented View Generation System for Clinical Data. New York: Columbia University; 1999

    Abstracts

    1.    Cimino JJ, Zeng Q, Elhanan G, Socratous SA. From Coded Patient Data to World Wide Web Information via the UMLS. In: Humphreys  BL, ed. Proceedings of the 1996 Spring Congress of the American Medical Informatics Association; Kansas City, MO; June, 1996
    2.    Zeng Q, Cimino JJ. Supporting Diagnostic Hypothesis Validation by Providing A Knowledge Based View of EMR. Proceeding of the AMIA Annual Spring Symposium;1998
    3.    Zeng, Q, Tu S, Boxwala AA, A Three-Layer Domain Ontology for Guideline Representation and Sharing. Proceeding of the AMIA Annual Symposium; 2000
    4.    Sun YC, Tang DD, Chang CY, Zeng Q. Identify Special Patterns of Numerical Typographic Errors to Increase the Likelihood of Finding a Misplaced Patient File. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2001; 1041
    5.    Kim EY, Kogan S, Cristiano LM, Kitch BT, Zeng Q. Facilitate the Delivery of Tailored Materials to Asthmatic Pregnant Women. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2001; 944
    6.    Nyun MT, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q. Health information retrieval tool: using a three-dimensional visualization model in addition to free-text search. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2002; 1116
    7.    Crowell J, Zeng QT, Kogan S. A Technique to Improve the Spelling Suggestion Rank in Medical Queries. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2003; 823
    8.    Kim EY, Zeng QT, Kuo FC, Rawn J, Mentzer SJ. Visual Representation of Cell Subpopulation from Flow Cytometry Data. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; 2003; 893
    9.    Kim S, Zeng QT, Kuo FC. Open-Source and Modularized NLP tools for Medical Text Processing. APIII 2003


    Links

    Consumer Health Vocabulary Initiative  (http://www.consumerhealthvocab.org/)