Student and Faculty Publications
Open-access journal articles of faculty, students and staff 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 2024
Leveraging Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Clinical Decision Support, Siru Liu, Allison B McCoy, Josh F Peterson, Thomas A Lasko, Dean F Sittig, Scott D Nelson, Jennifer Andrews, Lorraine Patterson, Cheryl M Cobb, David Mulherin, Colleen T Morton, and Adam Wright
Comprehensive Analysis of Bulk and Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data Reveals a Novel Signature Associated With Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress, Lipid Metabolism, and Liver Metastasis in Pancreatic Cancer, Xiaohong Liu, Bo Ren, Yuan Fang, Jie Ren, Xing Wang, Minzhi Gu, Feihan Zhou, Ruiling Xiao, Xiyuan Luo, Lei You, and Yupei Zhao
The Significant Role of Amino Acid Metabolic Reprogramming in Cancer, Xiaohong Liu, Bo Ren, Jie Ren, Minzhi Gu, Lei You, and Yupei Zhao
DRMref: Comprehensive Reference Map of Drug Resistance Mechanisms in Human Cancer, Xiaona Liu, Jiahao Yi, Tina Li, Jianguo Wen, Kexin Huang, Jiajia Liu, Grant Wang, Pora Kim, Qianqian Song, and Xiaobo Zhou
Prevalence and Relevant Factors of Nocturia and Its Impact on Sleep Quality in Chinese University Students, Yakai Liu, Zhenwei Zhang, Huijie Hu, Xiangfei He, Pengchao Xu, Qifeng Dou, Cuiping Song, Huiqing Zhang, Israel Franco, Konstantinos Kamperis, Søren Rittig, and Jianguo Wen
Fedgmmat: Federated Generalized Linear Mixed Model Association Tests, Wentao Li, Han Chen, Xiaoqian Jiang, and Arif Harmanci
Safety, Immunogenicity, and Mechanism of a Rotavirus mRNA-LNP Vaccine in Mice, Chenxing Lu, Yan Li, Rong Chen, Xiaoqing Hu, Qingmei Leng, Xiaopeng Song, Xiaochen Lin, Jun Ye, Jinlan Wang, Jinmei Li, Lida Yao, Xianqiong Tang, Xiangjun Kuang, Guangming Zhang, Maosheng Sun, Yan Zhou, and Hongjun Li
Development and Validation of a Nomogram for Predicting Pulmonary Infection in Patients Receiving Immunosuppressive Drugs, Chuxuan Luo, Yue Zhang, Jiajie Zhang, Chen Jin, Xiaolan Ye, Yan Ren, Huajuan Shen, Maosheng Chen, Yiwen Li, Qiang He, Guangbiao Xu, and Lina Shao
Dynamic Hydrogel-Metal-Organic Framework System Promotes Bone Regeneration in Periodontitis Through Controlled Drug Delivery, Qipei Luo, Yuxin Yang, Chingchun Ho, Zongtai Li, Weicheng Chiu, Anqi Li, Yulin Dai, Weichang Li, and Xinchun Zhang
Stemdriver: a Knowledgebase of Gene Functions for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Fate Determination, Yangyang Luo, Jingjing Guo, Jianguo Wen, Weiling Zhao, Kexin Huang, Yang Liu, Grant Wang, Ruihan Luo, Ting Niu, Yuzhou Feng, Haixia Xu, Pora Kim, and Xiaobo Zhou
Multiple Control of Azoquinoline Based Molecular Photoswitches, Youming Lv, Hebo Ye, and Lei You
Montelukast as a Repurposable Additive Drug for Standard-Efficacy Multiple Sclerosis Treatment: Emulating Clinical Trials With Retrospective Administrative Health Claims Data, Astrid M Manuel, Assaf Gottlieb, Leorah Freeman, and Zhongming Zhao
Identification of Novel F2-Isoprostane Metabolites by Specific UDP-Glucuronosyltransferases, Ginger L Milne, Marina S Nogueira, Benlian Gao, Stephanie C Sanchez, Warda Amin, Sarah Thomas, Camille Oger, Jean-Marie Galano, Harvey J Murff, Gong Yang, and Thierry Durand
Advances in the Integration of Microalgal Communities for Biomonitoring of Metal Pollution in Aquatic Ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa, Mary Mulenga, Concillia Monde, Todd Johnson, Kennedy O Ouma, and Stephen Syampungani
Improvements in Appropriate Placement of Dental Sealants After Implementation of a Clinical Decision Support System, Joanna Mullins, Ryan Brandon, Nicholas Skourtes, Elsbeth Kalenderian, and Muhammad Walji
Digital Health Technologies for High-Risk Pregnancy Management: Three Case Studies Using Digilego Framework, Sahiti Myneni, Alexandra Zingg, Tavleen Singh, Angela Ross, Amy Franklin, Deevakar Rogith, and Jerrie Refuerzo
Discovery of Runs-Of-Homozygosity Diplotype Clusters and Their Associations With Diseases in UK Biobank, Ardalan Naseri, Degui Zhi, and Shaojie Zhang
Deep Learning Model for Personalized Prediction of Positive MRSA Culture Using Time-Series Electronic Health Records, Masayuki Nigo, Laila Rasmy, Bingyu Mao, Bijun Sai Kannadath, Ziqian Xie, and Degui Zhi
Linking Cancer Clinical Trials to their Result Publications, Evan Pan and Kirk Roberts
Unsupervised Deep Representation Learning Enables Phenotype Discovery For Genetic association Studies of Brain Imaging, Khush Patel, Ziqian Xie, Hao Yuan, Sheikh Muhammad Saiful Islam, Yaochen Xie, Wei He, Wanheng Zhang, Assaf Gottlieb, Han Chen, Luca Giancardo, Alexander Knaack, Evan Fletcher, Myriam Fornage, Shuiwang Ji, and Degui Zhi
Radiogenomics-Based Risk Prediction of Glioblastoma Multiforme with Clinical Relevance, Xiaohua Qian, Hua Tan, Xiaona Liu, Weiling Zhao, Michael D Chan, Pora Kim, and Xiaobo Zhou
Effect of Esketamine on Hypotension in Women With Preoperative Anxiety Undergoing Elective Cesarean Section: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial, Yu Qi, Meiyan Zhou, Yaqi Dong, Wenting Zheng, Qinyu Jiang, Yanyu Li, Xinghe Wang, Jia Sun, Hai Zhou, Zhengquan Hu, and Liwei Wang
Effect of S-Ketamine on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Patients Undergoing Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Yu Qi, Meiyan Zhou, Wenting Zheng, Yaqi Dong, Weihua Li, Long Wang, Haijun Xu, Miao Zhang, Dunpeng Yang, Liwei Wang, and Hai Zhou
Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Lung Cancer Among Never Smokers in Two Prospective Cohorts in Shanghai, China, Mohammad L Rahman, Charles E Breeze, Xiao-Ou Shu, Jason Y Y Wong, Batel Blechter, Andres Cardenas, Xuting Wang, Bu-Tian Ji, Wei Hu, Qiuyin Cai, H Dean Hosgood, Gong Yang, Jianxin Shi, Jirong Long, Yu-Tang Gao, Douglas A Bell, Wei Zheng, Nathaniel Rothman, and Qing Lan
Linking Artificial Sweetener Intake With Kidney Function: Insights From Nhanes 2003-2006 and Findings From Mendelian Randomization Research, Zhuoling Ran, Yuxuan Zheng, Lin Yu, Yuxian Zhang, Zhenjiang Zhang, Huijie Li, Xuhan Li, Jing Song, Li Zhang, Ran Zhang, Chang Lu, Yang Gong, and Jian Gong