Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

 

Open-access journal articles of faculty, students and staff from McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston. Some of the focus areas include Clinical and Cognitive Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, Public Health Informatics, and Translational Biomedical Informatics.

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Submissions from 2025

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Reusable Generic Clinical Decision Support System Module for Immunization Recommendations in Resource-Constraint Settings, Samuil Orlioglu, Akash Shanmugan Boobalan, Kojo Abanyie, et al.

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BrainGeneBot: A GPT-Engineered, User-Driven Genetic Data Exploration With Polygenic Risk Scores Ranking in Alzheimer’s Disease, Guan Ou and Zhongming Zhao

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Glucose Metabolism and Its Direct Action in Cancer and Immune Regulation: Opportunities and Challenges for Metabolic Targeting, Bo-Syong Pan, Che-Chia Hsu, Hsin-En Wu, et al.

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Positron Emission Tomography Reveals Increased Myocardial Glucose Uptake in a Subset of Friedreich Ataxia Patients, R Mark Payne, Thomas M O'Connell, P Melanie Pride, et al.

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First-Line MET Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors versus Immunotherapy ± Chemotherapy for Patients with MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutant Metastatic NSCLC, Federica Pecci, Hui Li, Alessandro Di Federico, et al.

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Enhancing Cross-Domain Generalizability in Social Determinants of Health Extraction with Prompt-Tuning Large Language Models, Cheng Peng, Zehao Yu, Kaleb E Smith, et al.

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Scaling Up Biomedical Vision-Language Models: Fine-Tuning, Instruction Tuning, and Multi-modal Learning, Cheng Peng, Kai Zhang, Mengxian Lyu, et al.

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IRF6 Regulates Adherens Junction Proteins and Inflammatory Cytokines in Salivary Acinar Cells and Its Expression Is Elevated in Sjӧgren’s Syndrome, Vi Pham, Antonio Hernandes Chaves Neto, Julia Zheng, et al.

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The Association of Discrimination, Inflammation, and Coping Style on Self-Rated Health Among South Asian Individuals in the Masala Study, Raji Pillai, Sahiti Myneni, Constance M Johnson, et al.

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BrainGeneBot: A Framework for Variant Prioritization and Generative Pretrained Transformer-Informed Interpretation Across Polygenic Risk Score Studies, Gang Qu, Nitesh Enduru, Xinyi Liu, et al.

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Not Fully Synthetic: LLM-based Hybrid Approaches Towards Privacy-Preserving Clinical Note Sharing, Atiquer Rahman Sarkar, Yao-Shun Chuang, Xiaoqian Jiang, et al.

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Student Expectations and Outcomes in Virtual vs In-Person Interprofessional Simulations: A Qualitative Analysis, Padmavathy Ramaswamy, Abbey M Bachmann, Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, et al.

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Evaluating Large Language Model Performance To Support the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Primary Immune Disorders, Nicholas L Rider, Yingya Li, Aaron T Chin, et al.

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Screening Young Adult Cancer Patients for Vocational Rehabilitation Services: A Vocational Rehabilitation Readiness Screening Tool, Rhonda Robert, Clark R Andersen, Kathleen M Murphy, et al.

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Non-mutated Human Tau Stimulates Alzheimer’s Disease-Relevant Neurodegeneration in a Microglia-Dependent Manner, Ethan R Roy, Qiang Wang, Kexin Huang, et al.

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BMAL1-HIF2A Heterodimer Modulates Circadian Variations of Myocardial Injury, Wei Ruan, Tao Li, In Hyuk Bang, et al.

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Gated Recurrent Unit With Decay Has Real-Time Capability for Postoperative Ileus Surveillance and Offers Cross-Hospital Transferability, Xiaoyang Ruan, Sunyang Fu, Heling Jia, et al.

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Deep Phenotyping of Obesity: Electronic Health Record-Based Temporal Modeling Study, Xiaoyang Ruan, Shuyu Lu, Liwei Wang, et al.

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Depletion of Adipose Stroma-Like Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Potentiates Pancreatic Cancer Immunotherapy, Joseph Rupert, Alexes Daquinag, Yongmei Yu, et al.

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Senescence Caused by Telomerase Inactivation in Myeloid, Mesenchymal, and Endothelial Cells Has Distinct Effects on Cancer Progression, Joseph Rupert, Zhanguo Gao, Yongmei Yu, et al.

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AI Model for Predicting Asthma Prognosis in Children, Elham Sagheb, Chung-Il Wi, Katherine S King, et al.

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Epidemiology of Patient Record Duplication, Onur Sahin, Audrey Zhao, Reuben Joseph Applegate, et al.

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Radiomics for Dynamic Lung Cancer Risk Prediction in USPSTF-Ineligible Patients, Morteza Salehjahromi, Hui Li, Eman Showkatian, et al.

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Predicting Chemotherapy Responsiveness in Gastric Cancer Through Machine Learning Analysis of Genome, Immune, and Neutrophil Signatures, Shota Sasagawa, Yoshitaka Honma, Xinxin Peng, et al.

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Gene Expression Changes in Human Cerebral Arteries Following Hemoglobin Exposure: Implications for Vascular Responses in SAH, Chathathayil M Shafeeque, Arif O Harmanci, Sithara Thomas, et al.