Journal Articles
Open-access journal articles 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 2023
Single-cell analysis of chromatin accessibility in the adult mouse brain., Songpeng Zu, Yang Eric Li, Kangli Wang, Ethan J Armand, Sainath Mamde, Maria Luisa Amaral, Yuelai Wang, Andre Chu, Yang Xie, Michael Miller, Jie Xu, Zhaoning Wang, Kai Zhang, Bojing Jia, Xiaomeng Hou, Lin Lin, Qian Yang, Seoyeon Lee, Bin Li, Samantha Kuan, Hanqing Liu, Jingtian Zhou, Antonio Pinto-Duarte, Jacinta Lucero, Julia Osteen, Michael Nunn, Kimberly A Smith, Bosiljka Tasic, Zizhen Yao, Hongkui Zeng, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang, M Margarita Behrens, Joseph R Ecker, Allen Wang, Sebastian Preissl, and Bing Ren
Submissions from 2022
Experiences of Parents with Opioid Use Disorder during Their Attempts to Seek Treatment: A Qualitative Analysis, Christine Bakos-Block, Angela J Nash, A Sarah Cohen, and Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer
Real-World Matching Performance of Deidentified Record-Linking Tokens, Elmer V Bernstam, Reuben Joseph Applegate, Alvin Yu, Deepa Chaudhari, Tian Liu, Alex Coda, and Jonah Leshin
Biomolecular Condensation: A New Phase in Cancer Research, Anupam K Chakravarty, Daniel J McGrail, Thomas M Lozanoski, Brandon S Dunn, David J H Shih, Kara M Cirillo, Sueda H Cetinkaya, Wenjin Jim Zheng, Gordon B Mills, S Stephen Yi, Daniel F Jarosz, and Nidhi Sahni
The Benefits and Challenges of Virtual Education for Interprofessional Teams in a Post-COVID Environment, Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer
Cost of Care for Asylum Seekers and Refugees Entering the United States: The Case of Volunteer Medical Providers in El Paso, Texas, Rigoberto I Delgado, Manuel De la Rosa, Marlon A Picado, Lisa Ayoub-Rodriguez, Celia E Gonzalez, and Leopold Gemoets
Advancing Access to Healthcare through Telehealth: A Brownsville Community Assessment, Edna Ely-Ledesma and Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer
Building Consensus for a Shared Definition of Adverse Events: A Case Study in the Profession of Dentistry, Amy Franklin, Elsbeth Kalenderian, Nutan Hebballi, Veronique Delattre, Jini Etoule, Joel White, Ram Vaderhobli, Denice Stewart, Karla Kent, Alfa Yansane, and Muhammad Walji
Measuring and controlling medical record abstraction (MRA) error rates in an observational study., Maryam Y Garza, Tremaine Williams, Sahiti Myneni, Susan H Fenton, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Zhuopei Hu, Jeannette Lee, Jessica Snowden, Meredith N Zozus, Anita C Walden, Alan E Simon, Barbara McClaskey, Sarah G Sanders, Sandra S Beauman, Sara R Ford, Lacy Malloch, Amy Wilson, Lori A Devlin, and Leslie W Young
Xcvatr: Detection and Characterization of Variant Impact on the Embeddings of Single -Cell and Bulk Rna-Sequencing Samples, Arif Harmanci, Akdes Serin Harmanci, Tiemo J Klisch, and Akash J Patel
Immunotherapy for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Adjuvant-Free Schistosoma Japonicum-Egg Tip-Loaded Asymmetric Microneedle Patch (STAMP), Haoming Huang, Dian Hu, Zhuo Chen, Jiarong Xu, Rengui Xu, Yusheng Gong, Zhengming Fang, Ting Wang, and Wei Chen
A Systematic Approach to Configuring MetaMap for Optimal Performance, Xia Jing, Akash Indani, Nina Hubig, Hua Min, Yang Gong, James J Cimino, Dean F Sittig, Lior Rennert, David Robinson, Paul Biondich, Adam Wright, Christian Nøhr, Timothy Law, Arild Faxvaag, and Ronald Gimbel
Development of the Invasive Candidiasis Discharge [I Can Discharge] Model: A Mixed Methods Analysis, Jinhee Jo, Truc T Tran, Nicholas D Beyda, Debora Simmons, Joshua A Hendrickson, Masaad Saeed Almutairi, Faris S Alnezary, Anne J Gonzales-Luna, Edward J Septimus, and Kevin W Garey
Development of a Quality Improvement Dental Chart Review Training Program, Elsbeth Kalenderian, Nutan B Hebballi, Amy Franklin, Alfa Yansane, Ana M Ibarra Noriega, Joel White, and Muhammad F Walji
SVAT: Secure Outsourcing of Variant Annotation and Genotype Aggregation., Miran Kim, Su Wang, Xiaoqian Jiang, and Arif Harmanci
Counterfactual Analysis of Differential Comorbidity Risk Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias, Yejin Kim, Kai Zhang, Sean I Savitz, Luyao Chen, Paul E Schulz, and Xiaoqian Jiang
The Evolving Privacy and Security Concerns for Genomic Data Analysis and Sharing as Observed From the iDASH Competition, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Xiaoqian Jiang, Haixu Tang, XiaoFeng Wang, Arif Harmanci, Miran Kim, Kai Post, Diyue Bu, Tyler Bath, Jihoon Kim, Weijie Liu, Hongbo Chen, and Lucila Ohno-Machado
The Impact of COVID-19 on Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in Texas, Karima Lalani, Christine Bakos-Block, Marylou Cardenas-Turanzas, Sarah Cohen, Bhanumathi Gopal, and Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer
Influence of Waist Circumference Measurement Site on Visceral Fat and Metabolic Risk in Youth, SoJung Lee, Yejin Kim, and Minsub Han
A Nomogram for Predicting Upper Urinary Tract Damage Risk in Children With Neurogenic Bladder, Qi Li, Miao Cai, Qingsong Pu, Shengde Wu, Xing Liu, Tao Lin, Dawei He, Jianguo Wen, and Guanghui Wei
Aging After Stroke: How To Define Post-Stroke Sarcopenia and What Are Its Risk Factors?, Sheng Li, Javier Gonzalez-Buonomo, Jaskiran Ghuman, Xinran Huang, Aila Malik, Nuray Yozbatiran, Elaine Magat, Gerard E Francisco, Hulin Wu, and Walter R Frontera
Electron Transfer Dynamics and Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Activities of the Co3O4 Nanoparticles Attached to Indium Tin Oxide by Self-Assembled Monolayers, Xuan Liu, Qianhong Tian, Yvpei Li, Zixiang Zhou, Jinlian Wang, Shuling Liu, and Chao Wang
Collaborative Interprofessional Health Science Student Led Realistic Mass Casualty Incident Simulation, Deborah L McCrea, Robert C Coghlan, Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, and Stanley Cron
Identifying Missing IS-A Relations in Orphanet Rare Disease Ontology, Maryamsadat Mohtashamian, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Xubing Hao, and Licong Cui
Automated Identification of Missing IS-A Relations in the Human Phenotype Ontology, Maryamsadat Mohtashamian, Ran Hu, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Xubing Hao, Hua Xu, and Licong Cui