Journal Articles

 

Open-access journal articles from McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston Faculty. School focus areas include Clinical and Cognitive Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, Public Health Informatics, and Translational Biomedical Informatics.

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Submissions from 2024

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Revealing chronic disease progression patterns using Gaussian process for stage inference., Yanfei Wang, Weiling Zhao, Angela Ross, Lei You, Hongyu Wang, and Xiaobo Zhou

Submissions from 2022

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Measuring and controlling medical record abstraction (MRA) error rates in an observational study., Maryam Y Garza, Tremaine Williams, Sahiti Myneni, Susan H Fenton, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Zhuopei Hu, Jeannette Lee, Jessica Snowden, Meredith N Zozus, Anita C Walden, Alan E Simon, Barbara McClaskey, Sarah G Sanders, Sandra S Beauman, Sara R Ford, Lacy Malloch, Amy Wilson, Lori A Devlin, and Leslie W Young

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Phenotype-Genotype analysis of caucasian patients with high risk of osteoarthritis., Yanfei Wang, Jacqueline Chyr, Pora Kim, Weiling Zhao, and Xiaobo Zhou

Submissions from 2021

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Comprehensive Characterization of COVID-19 Patients with Repeatedly Positive SARS-CoV-2 Tests Using a Large U.S. Electronic Health Record Database., Xiao Dong, Yujia Zhou, Xiao-Ou Shu, Elmer V Bernstam, Rebecca Stern, David M Aronoff, Hua Xu, and Loren Lipworth

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Exchanges in a Virtual Environment for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support: Social Network Analysis., Carlos A Pérez-Aldana, Allison A Lewinski, Constance M Johnson, Allison A Vorderstrasse, and Sahiti Myneni

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Med-BERT: pretrained contextualized embeddings on large-scale structured electronic health records for disease prediction., Laila Rasmy, Yang Xiang, Ziqian Xie, Cui Tao, and Degui Zhi

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Generalized and transferable patient language representation for phenotyping with limited data., Yuqi Si, Elmer V Bernstam, and Kirk Roberts

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Digital Technology Needs in Maternal Mental Health: A Qualitative Inquiry., Alexandra Zingg, Laura Carter, Deevakar Rogith, Amy Franklin, Sudhakar Selvaraj, Jerrie Refuerzo, and Sahiti Myneni

Submissions from 2020

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Understanding spatial language in radiology: Representation framework, annotation, and spatial relation extraction from chest X-ray reports using deep learning., Surabhi Datta, Yuqi Si, Laritza Rodriguez, Sonya E Shooshan, Dina Demner-Fushman, and Kirk Roberts

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COVID-19 TestNorm: A tool to normalize COVID-19 testing names to LOINC codes., Xiao Dong, Jianfu Li, Ekin Soysal, Jiang Bian, Scott L DuVall, Elizabeth Hanchrow, Hongfang Liu, Kristine E Lynch, Michael Matheny, Karthik Natarajan, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Serguei Pakhomov, Ruth Madeleine Reeves, Amy M Sitapati, Swapna Abhyankar, Theresa Cullen, Jami Deckard, Xiaoqian Jiang, Robert Murphy, and Hua Xu

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Representation of EHR data for predictive modeling: a comparison between UMLS and other terminologies., Laila Rasmy, Firat Tiryaki, Yujia Zhou, Yang Xiang, Cui Tao, Hua Xu, and Degui Zhi

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Digilego for Peripartum Depression: A Novel Patient-Facing Digital Health Instantiation, J Rodin, C Timko, and S Harris

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Causal Discovery in Radiographic Markers of Knee Osteoarthritis and Prediction for Knee Osteoarthritis Severity With Attention-Long Short-Term Memory., Yanfei Wang, Lei You, Jacqueline Chyr, Lan Lan, Weiling Zhao, Yujia Zhou, Hua Xu, Philip Noble, and Xiaobo Zhou

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Vasopressor treatment and mortality following nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage: a nationwide electronic health record analysis., George Williams, Vahed Maroufy, Laila Rasmy, Derek Brown, Duo Yu, Hai Zhu, Yashar Talebi, Xueying Wang, Emy Thomas, Gen Zhu, Ashraf Yaseen, Hongyu Miao, Luis Leon Novelo, Degui Zhi, Stacia M DeSantis, Hongjian Zhu, Jose-Miguel Yamal, David Aguilar, and Hulin Wu

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Deep learning in clinical natural language processing: a methodical review., Stephen Wu, Kirk Roberts, Surabhi Datta, Jingcheng Du, Zongcheng Ji, Yuqi Si, Sarvesh Soni, Qiong Wang, Qiang Wei, Yang Xiang, Bo Zhao, and Hua Xu

Submissions from 2019

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Deep Patient Representation of Clinical Notes via Multi-Task Learning for Mortality Prediction., Yuqi Si and Kirk Roberts

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Enhancing clinical concept extraction with contextual embeddings., Yuqi Si, Jingqi Wang, Hua Xu, and Kirk Roberts

Submissions from 2018

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Effects of a Community Population Health Initiative on Blood Pressure Control in Latinos., James R Langabeer, Timothy D Henry, Carlos Perez Aldana, Larissa DeLuna, Nora Silva, and Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer

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A Frame-Based NLP System for Cancer-Related Information Extraction., Yuqi Si and Kirk Roberts

Submissions from 2011

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Comparison of clinical knowledge management capabilities of commercially-available and leading internally-developed electronic health records., Dean F Sittig, Adam Wright, Seth Meltzer, Linas Simonaitis, R Scott Evans, W Paul Nichol, Joan S Ash, and Blackford Middleton

Submissions from 2010

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Sequential incoherence in a multi-party synchronous computer mediated communication for an introductory Health Informatics course., Jorge R Herskovic, J Caleb Goodwin, Pamela A Bozzo Silva, Irmgard Willcockson, and Amy Franklin

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Can prospective usability evaluation predict data errors?, Constance M Johnson, Meredith Nahm, Ryan J Shaw, Ashley Dunham, Kristin Newby, Rowena Dolor, Michelle Smerek, Guilherme Del Fiol, and Jiajie Zhang

Submissions from 2009

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Use of instructional video to prepare parents for learning infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation., Timothy S. Brannon, Lisa A. White, Julie N. Kilcrease, Lashawn D. Richard, Jana G. Spillers, and Cynthia L. Phelps

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Computerized provider order entry adoption: implications for clinical workflow., Emily M. Campbell, Kenneth P. Guappone, Dean F. Sittig, Richard H. Dykstra, and Joan S. Ash

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Taxonomy development and knowledge representation of nurses' personal cognitive artifacts., Sharon McLane and James P Turley