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.
Submissions from 2025
Using Machine Learning for Early Prediction of In-Hospital Mortality During ICU Admission in Liver Cancer Patients, Zhuo Zheng, Jinhong Xia, Jiawei Luo, et al.
Proxy Panels Enable Privacy-Aware Outsourcing of Genotype Imputation, Degui Zhi, Xiaoqian Jiang, and Arif Harmanci
Identifying Acute Myeloid Leukemia Subtypes Based on Pathway Enrichment, Ling Zhong, Jiangti Luo, Junze Dong, et al.
Comparison of in-Hospital Complication Rates After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Bicuspid Versus Tricuspid Aortic Valves: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Tingxi Zhu, Jiawei Luo, Xuan Huang, et al.
CircaKB: A Comprehensive Knowledgebase of Circadian Genes Across Multiple Species, Xingchen Zhu, Xiao Han, Zhijin Li, et al.
A Systematic Characterization of Fibroblast Subtypes and Heterogeneity, Xiuli Zhu, Hongen Kang, Zhongming Zhao, et al.
Enhancing Digital Health Development Through Speech Act Theory: Application to Peripartum Depression Management, Alexandra Zingg, Tavleen Singh, Michael Truong, et al.
A Scoping Review of Patient Safety Checklists in Pediatrics, Kawtar Zouaidi, Tate W Miner, Muhammad F Walji, et al.
Design and Development of an Intervention to Improve the Quality and Safety of Pediatric Dental Sedation: A Human-Centered Design Approach, Kawtar Zouaidi, Jan Yeager, Suhasini Bangar, et al.
Rank Aggregation Methods and Tools in Genomic Data Analysis, Wenping Zou, Savannah Mwesigwa, Sayed-Rzgar Hosseini, et al.
Submissions from 2024
A Heuristic Evaluation of a Pharmacy Surveillance Information System, Reza Abbasi, Mehrdad Farzandipour, Habiballah Rahimi, et al.
Deep Learning-Based Prediction Modeling of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events After Liver Transplantation, Ahmed Abdelhameed, Harpreet Bhangu, Jingna Feng, et al.
Stratification of Glioma Based on Stemness Scores in Bulk and Single-Cell Transcriptomes, Zeinab Abdelrahman, Alaa Abdelatty, Jiangti Luo, et al.
Leveraging Logical Definitions and Lexical Features To Detect Missing Is-A Relations In Biomedical Terminologies, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Fengbo Zheng, Jay Shi, et al.
ChatGPT vs Expert-Guided Care Pathways for Postesophagectomy Symptom Management, Mohamad K Abou Chaar, Giovanna Grigsby-Rocca, Ming Huang, et al.
Challenges in LncRNA Biology: Views and Opinions, Donald A Adjeroh, Xiaobo Zhou, Alexandre Rossi Paschoal, et al.
Pathway-Based Clustering Identifies Two Subtypes of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Associated With Distinct Molecular and Clinical Features in Pancreatic Ductal Carcinoma, Hongjing Ai, Rongfang Nie, and Xiaosheng Wang
Community Scientist Program Provides Bi-Directional Communication and Co-Learning Between Researchers and Community Members, Jessica Alvarado, Larkin L Strong, Birnur Buzcu-Guven, et al.
The IL6/JAK/STAT3 Signaling Axis Is A Therapeutic Vulnerability In SMARCB1-Deficient Bladder Cancer, Chandra Sekhar Amara, Karthik Reddy Kami Reddy, Yang Yuntao, et al.
Intuitive Data Visualization for Enhanced Patient Comprehension, Samina Asfandiyar, Shelley Hough, Vivian Agugo, et al.
“My Addiction Doesn’t Define Me”—Experiences of Stigma among Mothers with Opioid Use Disorder, Christine Bakos-Block, Andreaa Yaatsco, A Sarah Cohen, et al.
Question Answering for Electronic Health Records: Scoping Review of Datasets and Models, Jayetri Bardhan, Kirk Roberts, and Daisy Zhe Wang
Transdisciplinary Perspectives for Health Systems Science, Jiang Bian, Nan Liu, Shauna M Overgaard, et al.
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, et al.
Oncology Patients’ Willingness to Report Their Medication Safety Concerns From Home: A Qualitative Study, Deema Bunni, Grace Walters, Misun Hwang, et al.