Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)

 

Open Access full-text dissertations from McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston, formerly UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI). 2003 - current.

A few older copies (2003-2008) are also available in print at The TMC Library. They're available via OneSearch under the subject heading: "Dissertations, Academic--University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Health Information Sciences" for a full list, or search for known individual dissertations using the main search box or the DigitalCommons@TMC search box in the white banner above.

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Dissertations from 2023

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Advancing Precision Medicine: Unveiling Disease Trajectories, Decoding Biomarkers, and Tailoring Individual Treatments, Yanfei Wang

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Leveraging Digital Technologies for Management of Peripartum Depression to Mitigate Health Disparities, Alexandra Zingg

Dissertations from 2022

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Social Network Analysis of Online Support Communities for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors, Carlos Perez Aldana

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Identifying Risk Factors for Anchoring Bias during Emergency Department Transitions of Care, Roni Matin

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Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Melanoma using Ontology and Deep Learning Approaches, Xinyuan Zhang

Dissertations from 2021

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Secondary use of Structured Electronic Health Records Data: From Observational Studies to Deep Learning-based Predictive Modeling, Laila Bekhet

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Standardizing New Diagnostic Tests to Facilitate Rapid Responses to The Covid-19 Pandemic, Xiao Dong

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Enhance Representation Learning of Clinical Narrative with Neural Networks for Clinical Predictive Modeling, Yuqi Si

Dissertations from 2020

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Determining the Utility of HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) Standards in Supporting EHR and EDC-agnostic eSource Implementations for Clinical Research, Maryam Garza

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Table-to-Text: Generating Descriptive Text for Scientific Tables from Randomized Controlled Trials, Qiang Wei

Dissertations from 2019

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VaxInsight: an artificial intelligence system to access large-scale public perceptions of vaccination from social media, Jingcheng Du

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Utilizing Temporal Information in The EHR for Developing a Novel Continuous Prediction Model, Kang Lin Hsieh

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Design and Architecture of an Ontology-driven Dialogue System for HPV Vaccine Counseling, Amith Faheem Muhammad

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TURF for Teams: Considering Both the Team and I in the Work-Centered Design of Systems, Vickie Nguyen

Dissertations from 2018

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Comparing Attributional and Relational Similarity as a Means to Identify Clinically Relevant Drug-gene Relationships, Safa Fathiamini

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Ontology-Based Clinical Information Extraction Using SNOMED CT, Jun Li

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Using the Literature to Identify Confounders, Scott Malec

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Characterizing the Information Needs of Rural Healthcare Practitioners with Language Agnostic Automated Text Analysis, Melissa Resnick

Dissertations from 2017

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Impact of Terminology Mapping on Population Health Cohorts IMPaCt, Barbara A. Berkovich

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Improving Syntactic Parsing of Clinical Text Using Domain Knowledge, Min Jiang

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Understanding Patient Safety Reports via Multi-label Text Classification and Semantic Representation, Chen Liang

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A Life Cycle Approach to the Development and Validation of an Ontology of the U.S. Common Rule (45 C.F.R. § 46), Francis Manion

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Integrating Behavioral Trigger Messages into a mHealth System Design for Chronic Disease Management, Scott Sittig

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Understanding PubMed Search Results using Topic Models and Interactive Information Visualization, Zhiguo Yu

Dissertations from 2016

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DataGauge: A Model-Driven Framework for Systematically Assessing the Quality of Clinical Data for Secondary Use, Jose Franck DiazVasquez