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.

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Dissertations from 2022

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

Dissertations from 2021

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

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

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Implications of Computational Cognitive Models for Information Retrieval, Joshua Caleb Goodwin

Dissertations from 2015

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Designing for Practice Development in a Social Learning System: Communicating Norms and Vicarious Experience, Claire Loe

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Process Mining of Medication Revisions in Electronic Health Records, Deevakar Rogith

Dissertations from 2014

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Named Entity Recognition in Chinese Clinical Text, Jianbo Lei

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Integrating Domain Knowledge to Improve Signal Detection from Electronic Health Records for Pharmacovigilance, Ning Shang

Dissertations from 2013

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Development and Evaluation of an Ontology-Based Quality Metrics Extraction System, Sina Madani

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Attributing Meaning to Online Social Network Analysis for Tailored Socio-Behavioral Support Systems, Sahiti Myneni

Dissertations from 2012

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The SanaViz: Human Centered Geovisualization to facilitate visual exploration of Public Health data, Ashish Joshi

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Advanced Protein Modeling Method: Benchmarking and Applications in Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Sharangdhar S. Phatak

Dissertations from 2011

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Understanding and Characterizing Shared Decision-Making and Behavioral Intent in Medical Uncertainty, Roxana Maria Maffei

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Pathway Semantics: An Algebraic Data Driven Algorithm to Generate Hypotheses about Molecular Patterns Underlying Disease Progression, Mary Frances McGuire

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Modeling Techniques for the High-Resolution Interpretation of Cryo-Electron Microscopy Reconstructions, Mirabela Rusu

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A Method for Representing Contextualized Information (MeRCI) to Improve Situational Awareness Among Electronic Message Brokering System Dashboard Users, Arunkumar Srinivasan

Dissertations from 2010

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TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AS INPUT FOR PREDICTIVE MODELING: PREDICTING CARDIAC ARREST IN A PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT, Curtis Kennedy

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Data Accuracy in Medical Record Abstraction, Meredith Nahm

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The Effect of Proximity, Explicitness, and Representation of Basic Science Information on Student Clinical Problem-Solving, Kimberly Ann Smith

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Formalizing a Conceptual Framework of Work Domain Knowledge, Min Zhu

Dissertations from 2009

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WORKLOAD AND PERFORMANCE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIMEDIA JOB AIDS FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS, Jose F. Florez-Arango

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UNDERSTANDING NURSE CREATED COGNITIVE ARTIFACTS: PERSONALLY-CREATED-COGNITIVE-ARTIFACTS AS EXTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS OF DISTRIBUTED COGNITION, Sharon McLane

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BIOMEDICAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING AND EXTRACTION (BLUE-TEXT): A MINIMAL SYNTACTIC, SEMANTIC METHOD, Parsa Mirhaji

Dissertations from 2008

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CHARACTERIZING, ASSESSING AND IMPROVING HEALTHCARE REFERRAL COMMUNICATION, Adol Esquivel

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UNSUPERVISED INDEXING OF MEDLINE ARTICLES THROUGH GRAPH-BASED RANKING, Jorge R. Herskovic

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THE MULTIPLE LOCATION TIME WEIGHTED INDEX: USING PATIENT ACTIVITY SPACES TO CALCULATE PRIMARY CARE SERVICE AREAS, Jennifer Lynn Rankin

Dissertations from 2007

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DEVELOPING A METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING FUNCTIONAL DISCREPANCIES OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Jung-Wei Chen

Dissertations from 2006

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NANOPARTICLE AGGLOMERATES FOR PULMONARY DRUG DELIVERY, Rohan Bhavane

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UNDERSTANDING INTERRUPTIONS IN HEALTHCARE: DEVELOPING A MODEL, Juliana J. Brixey

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THE INTERACTION BETWEEN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INFORMATION ON RELATIONAL DATA SEARCH, Yang Gong

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DOES THE MESSAGE MATTER? ENHANCING PATIENT ADHERENCE THROUGH PERSUASIVE MESSAGES, Muhammad F. Walji

Dissertations from 2004

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COGNITIVE IMPACT OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA, Yanko F. Michea,

Dissertations from 2003

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EFFECTS OF INFORMATION DISPLAY ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF CLINICIAN MENTAL MODELS, Constance M. Johnson

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A PROCESS FOR ACHIEVING COMPARABLE DATA FROM HETEROGENEOUS DATABASES, Rachel L. Richesson