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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.

Dissertations from 2024 2024

Radiation-Induced Lymphopenia: Understanding, Predictive Modelling and Developing Photon and Proton-Based Mitigation Strategies, Yan Chu

Multi-omic single-cell integration for understanding T cell responses in Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Poonam Desai

Designing Recommendation Systems for Identification and Reduction of Unnecessary Blood Tests, Tongtong Huang

Improving Distributed Health Information Technology Integration through Enriched Context in Sociotechnical System Components, Jeritt Thayer

Decoding Disease Mechanisms: Unraveling Large-Scale Biological Data for Novel Therapeutic Target Discovery, Yuntao Yang

An Informatics Framework for Representing, Detecting, and Measuring Citations of Biomedical Datasets, Xu Zuo

Dissertations from 2023 2023

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

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

Dissertations from 2022 2022

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

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

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

Dissertations from 2021 2021

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

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

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

Dissertations from 2020 2020

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

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

Dissertations from 2019 2019

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

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

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

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

Dissertations from 2018 2018

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

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

Using the Literature to Identify Confounders, Scott Malec

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

Dissertations from 2017 2017

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