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
BDCD: a comprehensive Brain Disease Cell-cell communication Database, Xinyi Liu, Citu Citu, Gang Qu, et al.
CeLLTra: Aligning Cell Names With Gene Expression via a Pathway-Informed Transformer, Zhao Li, Zaiyi Zheng, Rongbin Li, et al.
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, Nada Lukkahatai, Chitchanok Benjasirisan, Xinran Huang, et al.
RMzyme: Regulations of RNA-Modifying Enzymes in Humans, Ruihan Luo, Haixia Xu, Qingbo Zhou, et al.
Natural Language Generation in Healthcare: A Review of Methods and Applications, Mengxian Lyu, Xiaohan Li, Ziyi Chen, et al.
Ucva Ontology: Standardizing Local Context Factors to Support the Analysis of Unwarranted Clinical Variation, Apollo McOwiti, Xubing Hao, Rebecca Z Lin, et al.
Overcoming IGF1R-Mediated Resistance to Oncolytic HSV1 and Radiotherapy via Triple Combination Therapy, Alexandra A Miller, Min-Hye Noh, Jin Muk Kang, et al.
Clinical Document Metadata Extraction: A Scoping Review, Kurt Miller, Qiuhao Lu, William Hersh, et al.
PD-L1 Positivity Predicts a Unique Hyperaggressive Tumor Group Within MenG C Meningiomas, Vijay Nitturi, Shervin Hosseingholi Nouri, Collin English, et al.
Cyanobacteria-Derived Near-Infrared Autofluorescent Exosomes Enabling Synergistic Brain Lesion Imaging and Neuroprotection, Jingmei Pan, Yayun Wang, Yikun Feng, et al.
Global-Local Feature Fusion: A Robust Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Multiclass Brain Tumor Classification With Grad-Cam++ Interpretation, Kirti Pant, Pijush Kanti Dutta Pramanik, Shahid Mohammad Ganie, et al.
A Robust ConvNeXt-Based Framework for Efficient, Generalizable, and Explainable Brain Tumor Classification on MRI, Kirti Pant, Pijush Kanti Dutta Pramanik, and Zhongming Zhao
Modern Home Cooking Practices, the Role of New Media, and Implications for Culinary Medicine: A Qualitative Study Among Mothers With Low Income, Margaret Raber, Maria Vazquez, Syeda Khan, et al.
Intra-coronary Imaging and Transcriptomics of Calcified Nodules Before and After Intensive Lipid-Lowering Therapy: A Yellow III Substudy, Pruthvi C Revaiah, Yuliya Vengrenyuk, JiaJia Liu, et al.
Proceedings of the Second Artificial Intelligence in Primary Immunodeficiency (AIPI) Meeting, Jacques G Rivière, Lisa Bastarache, Luiza C Campos, et al.
Integration of Aged Brain Multi-omics Reveals Cross-System Mechanisms Underlying Alzheimer’s Disease Heterogeneity, Lucas P Scheidemantel, Katia de Paiva Lopes, Chris Gaiteri, et al.
A Structured Review of Emerging Prompt Instability Indices (PIIs) to Evaluate the Reproducibility of Prompt-Driven Image Segmentation Models., Adib Shafipour, Deevakar Rogith, Zulfiia Ditto, et al.
Frame: Fast Reference-Based Ancestry Makeup Estimation Tool, Pramesh Shakya, Ardalan Naseri, Degui Zhi, et al.
Early Immune Dysregulation in Mtb/Siv Co-infection Resists cART Treatment at the Single-Cell Level, Riti Sharan, Yi Zou, Zhao Lai, et al.
Heart Failure Hospitalization in Patients With and Without Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study, Allison K Shay, Wei Tao, Soumya Patnaik, et al.
Content Matters, Context Matters: Unraveling Behavior Dynamics in an Online Health Community for Tobacco Cessation, Tavleen Singh, Runzhi Zhou, Kayo Fujimoto, et al.
Evaluating LingualAI: A Prospective Validation of AI-Based Real-Time Translation Against Certified Human Interpreters, Uday P Singh, Carlos A Jaimes Garcia, Gabriel M Aisenberg, et al.
Secure Distributed Multiple Imputation Enables Missing Data Inference for Private Data Proprietors, Haris Smajlović, Yi Lian, Qi Long, et al.
Understanding Practices of Lactation and Infant Feeding Together With Women With HIV: The Uplift Observational Study Protocol, Christiana Smith, Emily Anne Barr, Karen Hampanda, et al.
Enhancing Inter-institutional AI Research Collaboration Across Multidisciplinary Teams to Increase the National AI Workforce in Healthcare, Toufeeq Ahmed Syed, Sarah Popal, D'Laney Kernan, et al.