Congratulations to Dr. Chethan Jujjavarapu on his recent successful PhD defense and publication. As a member of Dr. Sean Mooney’s lab (CLEAR Center Associate Director of the Methodologic Core), Dr. Jujjavarapu applied machine learning techniques, like Natural Language Processing or NLP,  to health data in order to characterize patients with lower back pain and predict their clinical outcomes.

Click here to read Dr. Jujjavarapu’s latest publication.

Jujjavarapu, C., Pejaver, V., Cohen, T.A., Mooney, S.D., Heagerty, P.J. and Jarvik, J.G., 2021. A Comparison of Natural Language Processing Methods for the Classification of Lumbar Spine Imaging Findings Related to Lower Back Pain. Academic Radiology.