🧑‍🔬 Meliha Yetisgen

Affiliations

• University of Washington · Seattle, United States — current · 2014–2026 on 83 papers
• Microsoft (United States) · Redmond, United States — 2014–2017 on 2 papers
• University of Washington Medical Center · Seattle, United States — 2016 on 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

Topics

Language models & pretraining1Question answering1Summarization1Evaluation & benchmarks1

Works by year

2020s

Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. MORQA: Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Medical Open-Ended Question Answering (2026 · 11 citations)
   Automatic scores like BLEU, ROUGE and BERTScore are poor judges of free-text medical answers. Many different answers can be equally correct, and a reply that shares wording with the reference can still be clinically wrong. The authors present MORQA (Medical Open-Response QA), a bilingual English–Chinese benchmark for…
2. Identifying Imaging Follow-Up in Radiology Reports: A Comparative Analysis of Traditional ML and LLM Approaches (2026)
   Radiology reports often recommend follow-up imaging, but these recommendations frequently go unacted upon, and hospitals rarely track whether the recommended exam was ever done.
3. RadTimeline: Timeline Summarization for Longitudinal Radiological Lung Findings (2026)
   Radiologists and clinicians must follow how lung findings change across a patient's successive imaging reports.

Also in our library

1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them.

Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Fei Xia ×2
• Mari Ostendorf
• Özlem Uzuner

Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 21 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read).

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