Peter Szolovits
Peter Szolovits applies AI reasoning and language processing to medical decision making and clinical information. Szolovits researches AI for medical decisions, including diagnosis, therapy planning, and monitoring. His interests include knowledge representation, qualitative reasoning, and probabilistic inference. His work uses natural language processing to extract meaningful data from clinical narratives for translational medicine.
- Works
- 347
- Citations
- 25,102
- h-index
- 63
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1992
Research recognition
AAAI elected Peter Szolovits as a Fellow in 1992.
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2013
Medical informatics recognition
Szolovits received the Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence in 2013 from the American College of Medical Informatics.
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As of October 2026
Clinical decision making
Szolovits researches AI for medical decisions, including diagnosis, therapy planning, and monitoring. His interests include knowledge representation, qualitative reasoning, and probabilistic inference.
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As of October 2026
Information from clinical narratives
His work uses natural language processing to extract meaningful data from clinical narratives for translational medicine.
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As of October 2026
Health records and privacy
His research also covers controlled sharing of health information, medical record confidentiality, and cryptographic health identifiers.
Sources and credits
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