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 2017
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