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 2021
Exchanges in a Virtual Environment for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support: Social Network Analysis., Carlos A Pérez-Aldana, Allison A Lewinski, Constance M Johnson, Allison A Vorderstrasse, and Sahiti Myneni
Med-BERT: pretrained contextualized embeddings on large-scale structured electronic health records for disease prediction., Laila Rasmy, Yang Xiang, Ziqian Xie, Cui Tao, and Degui Zhi
Generalized and transferable patient language representation for phenotyping with limited data., Yuqi Si, Elmer V Bernstam, and Kirk Roberts
Digital Technology Needs in Maternal Mental Health: A Qualitative Inquiry., Alexandra Zingg, Laura Carter, Deevakar Rogith, Amy Franklin, Sudhakar Selvaraj, Jerrie Refuerzo, and Sahiti Myneni
Submissions from 2020
Understanding spatial language in radiology: Representation framework, annotation, and spatial relation extraction from chest X-ray reports using deep learning., Surabhi Datta, Yuqi Si, Laritza Rodriguez, Sonya E Shooshan, Dina Demner-Fushman, and Kirk Roberts
COVID-19 TestNorm: A tool to normalize COVID-19 testing names to LOINC codes., Xiao Dong, Jianfu Li, Ekin Soysal, Jiang Bian, Scott L DuVall, Elizabeth Hanchrow, Hongfang Liu, Kristine E Lynch, Michael Matheny, Karthik Natarajan, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Serguei Pakhomov, Ruth Madeleine Reeves, Amy M Sitapati, Swapna Abhyankar, Theresa Cullen, Jami Deckard, Xiaoqian Jiang, Robert Murphy, and Hua Xu
Representation of EHR data for predictive modeling: a comparison between UMLS and other terminologies., Laila Rasmy, Firat Tiryaki, Yujia Zhou, Yang Xiang, Cui Tao, Hua Xu, and Degui Zhi
Digilego for Peripartum Depression: A Novel Patient-Facing Digital Health Instantiation, J Rodin, C Timko, and S Harris
Causal Discovery in Radiographic Markers of Knee Osteoarthritis and Prediction for Knee Osteoarthritis Severity With Attention-Long Short-Term Memory., Yanfei Wang, Lei You, Jacqueline Chyr, Lan Lan, Weiling Zhao, Yujia Zhou, Hua Xu, Philip Noble, and Xiaobo Zhou
Deep learning in clinical natural language processing: a methodical review., Stephen Wu, Kirk Roberts, Surabhi Datta, Jingcheng Du, Zongcheng Ji, Yuqi Si, Sarvesh Soni, Qiong Wang, Qiang Wei, Yang Xiang, Bo Zhao, and Hua Xu
Submissions from 2019
Deep Patient Representation of Clinical Notes via Multi-Task Learning for Mortality Prediction., Yuqi Si and Kirk Roberts
Enhancing clinical concept extraction with contextual embeddings., Yuqi Si, Jingqi Wang, Hua Xu, and Kirk Roberts
Submissions from 2018
Effects of a Community Population Health Initiative on Blood Pressure Control in Latinos., James R Langabeer, Timothy D Henry, Carlos Perez Aldana, Larissa DeLuna, Nora Silva, and Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer
A Frame-Based NLP System for Cancer-Related Information Extraction., Yuqi Si and Kirk Roberts
Submissions from 2011
Comparison of clinical knowledge management capabilities of commercially-available and leading internally-developed electronic health records., Dean F Sittig, Adam Wright, Seth Meltzer, Linas Simonaitis, R Scott Evans, W Paul Nichol, Joan S Ash, and Blackford Middleton
Submissions from 2010
Sequential incoherence in a multi-party synchronous computer mediated communication for an introductory Health Informatics course., Jorge R Herskovic, J Caleb Goodwin, Pamela A Bozzo Silva, Irmgard Willcockson, and Amy Franklin
Can prospective usability evaluation predict data errors?, Constance M Johnson, Meredith Nahm, Ryan J Shaw, Ashley Dunham, Kristin Newby, Rowena Dolor, Michelle Smerek, Guilherme Del Fiol, and Jiajie Zhang
Submissions from 2009
Use of instructional video to prepare parents for learning infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation., Timothy S. Brannon, Lisa A. White, Julie N. Kilcrease, Lashawn D. Richard, Jana G. Spillers, and Cynthia L. Phelps
Computerized provider order entry adoption: implications for clinical workflow., Emily M. Campbell, Kenneth P. Guappone, Dean F. Sittig, Richard H. Dykstra, and Joan S. Ash
Taxonomy development and knowledge representation of nurses' personal cognitive artifacts., Sharon McLane and James P Turley
Ontology driven integration platform for clinical and translational research, Parsa Mirhaji, Min Zhu, Mattew Vagnoni, Elmer V. Bernstam, Jiajie Zhang, and Jack W. Smith
Improving follow-up of abnormal cancer screens using electronic health records: trust but verify test result communication., Hardeep Singh, Lindsey Wilson, Laura A Petersen, Mona K Sawhney, Brian Reis, Donna Espadas, and Dean F Sittig
Improving clinical quality indicators through electronic health records: it takes more than just a reminder., Dean F Sittig, Jonathan M Teich, Jerome A Osheroff, and Hardeep Singh
Clinical decision support capabilities of commercially-available clinical information systems., Adam Wright, Dean F Sittig, Joan S Ash, Sapna Sharma, Justine E Pang, and Blackford Middleton
Submissions from 2008
Molecular and macromolecular alterations of recombinant adenoviral vectors do not resolve changes in hepatic drug metabolism during infection., Shellie M Callahan, Piyanuch Wonganan, and Maria A Croyle