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 2026
A Topic Modeling Analysis of Stigma Dimensions, Social, and Related Behavioral Circumstances in Clinical Notes Among Patients With HIV, Robert L Cook, Jiang Bian, Yi Guo, et al.
Aberrant Ciliogenesis Induced by Enhanced Bmp Signaling Causes Heterotopic Ossification, Radbod Darabi, William R. Lagor, Zhongming Zhao, et al.
Integration of Aged Brain Multi-omics Reveals Cross-System Mechanisms Underlying Alzheimer’s Disease Heterogeneity, Philip L De Jager, Julie A Schneider, Aron S Buchman, et al.
Enhancing Inter-institutional AI Research Collaboration Across Multidisciplinary Teams to Increase the National AI Workforce in Healthcare, Zulfiia Ditto, Paul Warhurst, Jay Johnson, et al.
Full-Body AI Agent: A Perspective on Multi-Scale Collaborative AI for Systemic Biology and Precision Medicine, Zhiwei Fan, Liren Yang, Xi Hu, et al.
CD8+ T Cell Differentiation Into NK-Like Effector Cells Drives Transplant Rejection, Lillian W Gaber, Richard J Knight, Xiang Xiao, et al.
Deep Learning to Predict Future Cognitive Decline: A Multimodal Approach Using Brain MRI and Clinical Data, Emma J Gleave, Sophia I Thomopoulos, Heng Huang, et al.
Rendering Knowledge Graphs From Aerospace Dentistry Processes for Clinical Decision Support Systems, Yang Gong, Ronak Shah, and Ana C Neumann
Risk of Alzheimer Dementia After High-Dose vs Standard-Dose Influenza Vaccination, Kristofer Harris, Mya Rodriguez, Jenna Thomas, et al.
Evaluating LingualAI: A Prospective Validation of AI-Based Real-Time Translation Against Certified Human Interpreters, Jessica A Hernandez-Chilatra, Cecilia Wang, Dalilah Reyes de Jesus, et al.
Identifying Alzheimer's Disease Progression Subphenotypes Via a Graph-based Framework Using Electronic Health Records, Xing He, Aokun Chen, Yuxi Liu, et al.
Postoperative Pain After Dental Procedures: The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network Observational Study Using an Mobile Health Platform, David Holmes, Kim Funkhouser, Celeste Machen, et al.
Information Extraction From Clinical Notes: Are We Ready to Switch to Large Language Models?, Jimin Huang, Vipina K Keloth, Vincent J Zhang, et al.
SPCC: Inferring Spatial Cell-Cell Interaction by Integrating Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Liyu Huang, Kexin Huang, and Xiaobo Zhou
Cyanobacteria-Derived Near-Infrared Autofluorescent Exosomes Enabling Synergistic Brain Lesion Imaging and Neuroprotection, Qiongya Huang, Lei Yan, Xiaobo Zhou, et al.
Explainable Drug Side Effect Prediction in Central Neural System via Biologically Informed Graph Neural Network, Tongtong Huang, Ko-Hong Lin, Rodrigo Machado-Vieira, et al.
Long COVID Persistence and Surveillance Gaps Across 58 US Hospitals, Jonas Hügel, Michele Morris, Jingya Cheng, et al.
Gene Transcriptional Expression of Cerebral Blood Flow Alterations in Parkinson’s Disease: A Transcription-Neuroimaging Association Study, Jie Hu and Tijiang Zhang
Genetic Variants Associated With Sjögren’s Disease Subtypes Stratified by Clinical Feature, Junichi Iwata
Inferring High-Fat Dietary Patterns From Electronic Health Record Data Using Machine Learning, Sizun Jiang, Jiang Bian, and Hao Dai
Secure Distributed Multiple Imputation Enables Missing Data Inference for Private Data Proprietors, Xiaoqian Jiang
Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment of Pain in Older Adults Undergoing Auricular Point Acupressure for Chronic Low Back Pain: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial, Jennifer Kawi, Constance M Johnson, Paul J Christo, et al.
Workforce Review of Health Information Technology Associate-Degree Graduates: 2017-2024, Angela Kennedy, David T Marc, Velma L Payne, et al.
Multi-scale Data Improves Performance of Machine Learning Model for Long COVID Identification, V Eric Kerchberger, Alyson L Dickson, Emily R Pfaff, et al.