Student and Faculty Publications
Open-access journal articles of faculty, students and staff from McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston Faculty. School focus areas include Clinical and Cognitive Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, Public Health Informatics, and Translational Biomedical Informatics.
Submissions from 2024
Leveraging Logical Definitions and Lexical Features to Detect Missing Is-a Relations in Biomedical Terminologies, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Fengbo Zheng, Jay Shi, Samden D Lhatoo, and Licong Cui
Community Scientist Program Provides Bi-directional Communication and Co-learning Between Researchers and Community Members, Jessica Alvarado, Larkin L Strong, Birnur Buzcu-Guven, Leonetta B Thompson, Erica Cantu, Chelsea C Carrier, Chiamaka D Chukwu, Cassandra L Harris, Luz K Melendez, Crystal L Roberson, Angela M Ross, Sophia C Russell, Pablo Sanchez, Amirali Tahanan, Blair C Zdenek, Belinda M Reininger, and Lorna H McNeill
The IL6/Jak/STAT3 Signaling Axis Is a Therapeutic Vulnerability in SMARCB1-Deficient Bladder Cancer, Chandra Sekhar Amara, Karthik Reddy Kami Reddy, Yang Yuntao, Yuen San Chan, Danthasinghe Waduge Badrajee Piyarathna, Lacey Elizabeth Dobrolecki, David J H Shih, Zhongcheng Shi, Jun Xu, Shixia Huang, Matthew J Ellis, Andrea B Apolo, Leomar Y Ballester, Jianjun Gao, Donna E Hansel, Yair Lotan, H Courtney Hodges, Seth P Lerner, Chad J Creighton, Arun Sreekumar, W Jim Zheng, Pavlos Msaouel, Shyam M Kavuri, and Nagireddy Putluri
Age at Lung Cancer Diagnosis in Females Versus Males Who Never Smoke by Race and Ethnicity, Batel Blechter, Jason Y Y Wong, Li-Hsin Chien, Kouya Shiraishi, Xiao-Ou Shu, Qiuyin Cai, Wei Zheng, Bu-Tian Ji, Wei Hu, Mohammad L Rahman, Hsin-Fang Jiang, Fang-Yu Tsai, Wen-Yi Huang, Yu-Tang Gao, Xijing Han, Mark D Steinwandel, Gong Yang, Yihe G Daida, Su-Ying Liang, Scarlett L Gomez, Mindy C DeRouen, W Ryan Diver, Ananya G Reddy, Alpa V Patel, Loïc Le Marchand, Christopher Haiman, Takashi Kohno, Iona Cheng, I-Shou Chang, Chao Agnes Hsiung, Nathaniel Rothman, and Qing Lan
Bacteria Synergized with PD-1 Blockade Enhance Positive Feedback Loop of Cancer Cells-M1 Macrophages-T Cells in Glioma, Qi Chen, Yuyi Zheng, Xiaojie Chen, Yuan Xing, Jiajie Zhang, Xinyi Yan, Qi Zhang, Di Wu, and Zhong Chen
Vagus Nerve Stimulation for the Therapy of Dravet Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Shuang Chen, Man Li, and Ming Huang
Erratum: Toward Standardization, Harmonization, and Integration of Social Determinants of Health Data: A Texas Clinical and Translational Science Award Institutions Collaboration - Corrigendum, Catherine K Craven, Linda Highfield, Mujeeb Basit, Elmer V Bernstam, Byeong Yeob Choi, Robert L Ferrer, Jonathan A Gelfond, Sandi L Pruitt, Vaishnavi Kannan, Paula K Shireman, Heidi Spratt, Kayla J Torres Morales, Chen-Pin Wang, Zhan Wang, Meredith N Zozus, Edward C Sankary, and Susanne Schmidt
Toward Standardization, Harmonization, and Integration of Social Determinants of Health Data: A Texas Clinical and Translational Science Award Institutions Collaboration, Catherine K Craven, Linda Highfield, Mujeeb Basit, Elmer V Bernstam, Byeong Yeob Choi, Robert L Ferrer, Jonathan A Gelfond, Sandi L Pruitt, Vaishnavi Kannan, Paula K Shireman, Heidi Spratt, Kayla J Torres Morales, Chen-Pin Wang, Zhan Wang, Meredith N Zozus, Edward C Sankary, and Susanne Schmidt
Tissue-Specific Atlas of Trans-Models for Gene Regulation Elucidates Complex Regulation Patterns, Robert Dagostino and Assaf Gottlieb
Deepface: Deep-Learning-Based Framework to Contextualize Orofacial-Cleft-Related Variants During Human Embryonic Craniofacial Development, Yulin Dai, Toshiyuki Itai, Guangsheng Pei, Fangfang Yan, Yan Chu, Xiaoqian Jiang, Seth M Weinberg, Nandita Mukhopadhyay, Mary L Marazita, Lukas M Simon, Peilin Jia, and Zhongming Zhao
Deepface: Deep-Learning-Based Framework to Contextualize Orofacial-Cleft-Related Variants During Human Embryonic Craniofacial Development, Yulin Dai, Toshiyuki Itai, Guangsheng Pei, Fangfang Yan, Yan Chu, Xiaoqian Jiang, Seth M Weinberg, Nandita Mukhopadhyay, Mary L Marazita, Lukas M Simon, Peilin Jia, and Zhongming Zhao
A self-supervised learning approach for registration agnostic imaging models with 3D brain CTA., Yingjun Dong, Samiksha Pachade, Xiaomin Liang, Sunil A Sheth, and Luca Giancardo
Considerations for Quality Control Monitoring of Machine Learning Models in Clinical Practice, Louis Faust, Patrick Wilson, Shusaku Asai, Sunyang Fu, Hongfang Liu, Xiaoyang Ruan, and Curt Storlie
COV2Var, a Function Annotation Database of Sars-Cov-2 Genetic Variation, Yuzhou Feng, Jiahao Yi, Lin Yang, Yanfei Wang, Jianguo Wen, Weiling Zhao, Pora Kim, and Xiaobo Zhou
Risk Factors for Pediatric Ischemic Stroke and Intracranial Hemorrhage: A National Electronic Health Record Based Study, Stuart Fraser, Samantha M Levy, Amee Moreno, Gen Zhu, Sean Savitz, Alicia Zha, and Hulin Wu
Qiditangshen Granules Alleviates Diabetic Nephropathy Podocyte Injury: A Network Pharmacology Study and Experimental Validation in Vivo and Vitro, Fei Gao, Ying Zhou, Borui Yu, Huidi Xie, Yang Shi, Xianhui Zhang, and Hongfang Liu
Expanded T Lymphocytes in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of Multiple Sclerosis Patients Are Specific for Epstein-Barr-Virus-Infected B Cells, Assaf Gottlieb, H Phuong T Pham, Jerome G Saltarrelli, and J William Lindsey
Epigenetic Regulation in Cancer, Minzhi Gu, Bo Ren, Yuan Fang, Jie Ren, Xiaohong Liu, Xing Wang, Feihan Zhou, Ruiling Xiao, Xiyuan Luo, Lei You, and Yupei Zhao
Mapping of Alzheimer’s Disease Related Data Elements and the NIH Common Data Elements, Xubing Hao, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Fengbo Zheng, Paul E Schulz, The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, and Licong Cui
AgeAnnoMo: A Knowledgebase of Multi-Omics Annotation for Animal Aging, Kexin Huang, Xi Liu, Zhaocan Zhang, Tiangang Wang, Haixia Xu, Qingxuan Li, Yuhao Jia, Liyu Huang, Pora Kim, and Xiaobo Zhou
Transcription Factor BACH1 in Cancer: Roles, Mechanisms, and Prospects for Targeted Therapy, Dian Hu, Zerui Zhang, Xiangyuan Luo, Siwen Li, Junqing Jiang, Jiaqian Zhang, Zhangfan Wu, Yijun Wang, Mengyu Sun, Xiaoping Chen, Bixiang Zhang, Xiao Xu, Shuai Wang, Shengjun Xu, Yufei Wang, Wenjie Huang, and Limin Xia
An Automated Approach for Identifying Erroneous IS-A Relations in SNOMED CT, Ran Hu, Jay Shi, Licong Cui, and Rashmie Abeysinghe
Evaluating and Improving the Usability of a Mhealth Platform to Assess Postoperative Dental Pain, Ana M Ibarra-Noriega, Alfa Yansane, Joanna Mullins, Kristen Simmons, Nicholas Skourtes, David Holmes, Joel White, Elsbeth Kalenderian, and Muhammad F Walji
Dementia Prediction in Older Adults Using Sex-Specific Health Trajectory Clustering, Omar A Ibrahim, Muskan Garg, Sunyang Fu, Maria Vassilaki, Ronald C Petersen, Jennifer St Sauver, and Sunghwan Sohn
SOX on Tumors, a Comfort or a Constraint?, Junqing Jiang, Yufei Wang, Mengyu Sun, Xiangyuan Luo, Zerui Zhang, Yijun Wang, Siwen Li, Dian Hu, Jiaqian Zhang, Zhangfan Wu, Xiaoping Chen, Bixiang Zhang, Xiao Xu, Shuai Wang, Shengjun Xu, Wenjie Huang, and Limin Xia