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 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
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