Open Access full-text dissertations from the 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 2022
Identifying Risk Factors for Anchoring Bias during Emergency Department Transitions of Care, Roni Matin
Dissertations from 2021
Standardizing New Diagnostic Tests to Facilitate Rapid Responses to The Covid-19 Pandemic, Xiao Dong
Dissertations from 2020
Table-to-Text: Generating Descriptive Text for Scientific Tables from Randomized Controlled Trials, Qiang Wei
Dissertations from 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
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
Impact of Terminology Mapping on Population Health Cohorts IMPaCt, Barbara A. Berkovich
Improving Syntactic Parsing of Clinical Text Using Domain Knowledge, Min Jiang
Understanding Patient Safety Reports via Multi-label Text Classification and Semantic Representation, Chen Liang
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
Integrating Behavioral Trigger Messages into a mHealth System Design for Chronic Disease Management, Scott Sittig
Understanding PubMed Search Results using Topic Models and Interactive Information Visualization, Zhiguo Yu
Dissertations from 2016
DataGauge: A Model-Driven Framework for Systematically Assessing the Quality of Clinical Data for Secondary Use, Jose Franck DiazVasquez
Implications of Computational Cognitive Models for Information Retrieval, Joshua Caleb Goodwin
Dissertations from 2015
Designing for Practice Development in a Social Learning System: Communicating Norms and Vicarious Experience, Claire Loe
Process Mining of Medication Revisions in Electronic Health Records, Deevakar Rogith
Dissertations from 2014
Named Entity Recognition in Chinese Clinical Text, Jianbo Lei
Dissertations from 2013
Development and Evaluation of an Ontology-Based Quality Metrics Extraction System, Sina Madani
Attributing Meaning to Online Social Network Analysis for Tailored Socio-Behavioral Support Systems, Sahiti Myneni
Dissertations from 2012
The SanaViz: Human Centered Geovisualization to facilitate visual exploration of Public Health data, Ashish Joshi
Advanced Protein Modeling Method: Benchmarking and Applications in Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Sharangdhar S. Phatak
Dissertations from 2011
Understanding and Characterizing Shared Decision-Making and Behavioral Intent in Medical Uncertainty, Roxana Maria Maffei
Pathway Semantics: An Algebraic Data Driven Algorithm to Generate Hypotheses about Molecular Patterns Underlying Disease Progression, Mary Frances McGuire
Modeling Techniques for the High-Resolution Interpretation of Cryo-Electron Microscopy Reconstructions, Mirabela Rusu
A Method for Representing Contextualized Information (MeRCI) to Improve Situational Awareness Among Electronic Message Brokering System Dashboard Users, Arunkumar Srinivasan
Dissertations from 2010
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AS INPUT FOR PREDICTIVE MODELING: PREDICTING CARDIAC ARREST IN A PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT, Curtis Kennedy
Data Accuracy in Medical Record Abstraction, Meredith Nahm
The Effect of Proximity, Explicitness, and Representation of Basic Science Information on Student Clinical Problem-Solving, Kimberly Ann Smith
Formalizing a Conceptual Framework of Work Domain Knowledge, Min Zhu
Dissertations from 2009
WORKLOAD AND PERFORMANCE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIMEDIA JOB AIDS FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS, Jose F. Florez-Arango
BIOMEDICAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING AND EXTRACTION (BLUE-TEXT): A MINIMAL SYNTACTIC, SEMANTIC METHOD, Parsa Mirhaji
Dissertations from 2008
CHARACTERIZING, ASSESSING AND IMPROVING HEALTHCARE REFERRAL COMMUNICATION, Adol Esquivel
UNSUPERVISED INDEXING OF MEDLINE ARTICLES THROUGH GRAPH-BASED RANKING, Jorge R. Herskovic
THE MULTIPLE LOCATION TIME WEIGHTED INDEX: USING PATIENT ACTIVITY SPACES TO CALCULATE PRIMARY CARE SERVICE AREAS, Jennifer Lynn Rankin
Dissertations from 2007
DEVELOPING A METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING FUNCTIONAL DISCREPANCIES OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Jung-Wei Chen
Dissertations from 2006
NANOPARTICLE AGGLOMERATES FOR PULMONARY DRUG DELIVERY, Rohan Bhavane
UNDERSTANDING INTERRUPTIONS IN HEALTHCARE: DEVELOPING A MODEL, Juliana J. Brixey
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INFORMATION ON RELATIONAL DATA SEARCH, Yang Gong
DOES THE MESSAGE MATTER? ENHANCING PATIENT ADHERENCE THROUGH PERSUASIVE MESSAGES, Muhammad F. Walji
Dissertations from 2004
COGNITIVE IMPACT OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA, Yanko F. Michea,
Dissertations from 2003
EFFECTS OF INFORMATION DISPLAY ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF CLINICIAN MENTAL MODELS, Constance M. Johnson
A PROCESS FOR ACHIEVING COMPARABLE DATA FROM HETEROGENEOUS DATABASES, Rachel L. Richesson