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Dissertations and 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

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

Unveiling the Hidden Landscape of Tumors: Developing Cutting-Edge Machine Learning Approaches to Determine the Compositions of Cells and Exosomes, Bingrui Li

Cancer Risk Prediction and Interpretation from Electronic Health Records, Zhao Li

Translational Bioinformatics Approaches for Decoding Mechanisms and Developing Drug Repositioning Strategies in Multiple Sclerosis, Astrid Manuel

Automating Construction of Fair Models for HIV Risk Prediction Using Neighborhood Data, Sarah May

Context-aware Content-sensitive Modeling of Online Peer Interactions in Social Media: Towards Personalized Digital Experiences for Behavior Change and Health Promotion, Tavleen Singh

Question Answering from Electronic Health Records, Sarvesh Soni

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

Spatial Information Extraction from Radiology Reports, Sarabhi Datta

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

Proposing a Conceptual Model of the Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology Policy, Nina Smith

Utilizing Molecular Pathways to Provide Generalizable, Explainable, and Translatable Models from Cancer Drug Response Prediction, Yi-Ching Tang

Disease Concept Normalization for Clinical Documents Using Deep Learning and Knowledge Graphs, Jingqi Wang

Development of Enabling Technologies for Genomic Analysis, Su Wang

Informatics Approaches for Capturing Dynamic Gene Expression and Regulation, Fangfang Yan

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