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
Application of a Natural Language Processing Algorithm to Early Asthma Ascertainment for Adults in the Era of Electronic Health Records, Sunghwan Sohn, Elham Sagheb, Bhavani Singh Agnikula Kshatriya, et al.
A Structured Review of Emerging Prompt Instability Indices (PIIs) to Evaluate the Reproducibility of Prompt-Driven Image Segmentation Models, Katie Stinson and Toufeeq Ahmed Syed
Ucva Ontology: Standardizing Local Context Factors to Support the Analysis of Unwarranted Clinical Variation, Cui Tao and Susan Fenton
Tau Seeds Induce Neurofibrillary Tangle Formation Across Brain Regions via Individual-Specific Connectivity, Shinya Tasaki, Chris Gaiteri, and Jeremy H Herskowitz
Modern Home Cooking Practices, the Role of New Media, and Implications for Culinary Medicine: A Qualitative Study Among Mothers With Low Income, Debbe Thompson
Developing Updated and New Guidance to Promote Reliable Patient Identification, Neha Thummala, Miriam Callahan, Dean F Sittig, et al.
Implementation and Evaluation of the OWLL Intervention to Improve the Quality and Safety of Pediatric Dental Sedation: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Janelle Urata, Alfa-Ibrahim Yansane, Jungsoo Kim, et al.
Advancing Bioinformatics With Language Models: Components, Applications, and Perspectives, Tiangang Wang, Kang Li, and Xiaobo Zhou
QeITH: Quantifies Tumor Ecosystem Heterogeneity to Predict Cancer Progression and Treatment Benefit, Xiaosheng Wang and Linjun You
Rewiring the Immune Response in Lung Cancer: Current Progress in Bispecific Antibodies, Car-T Therapy, and the Rise of in vivo CAR-T Platforms, Jianguo Wen, George R Blumenschein, and Hong Ma
Segmental Trans-endplate Pedicle Screws Do Not Induce Spinal Deformity in a Porcine Model, Jonathan H Wen, Austin J Stoner, Arianne Salunga, et al.
Understanding Practices of Lactation and Infant Feeding Together With Women With HIV: The Uplift Observational Study Protocol, Hulin Wu, Carly Hoffmann, Ciarra Brown, et al.
CeLLTra: Aligning Cell Names With Gene Expression via a Pathway-Informed Transformer, Yuntao Yang, Meer A Ali, Jundong Li, et al.
Visit-Level Quality Measurement Reveals Missed Opportunities and Overuse in Preventive Oral Health Care, Alfa Yansane, Donald B Rindal, Don Worley, et al.
Determinants of Severe Financial Distress in US Acute Care Hospitals: A National Longitudinal Study, Andrea J Yatsco and Karima Lalani
Decoding Immunotherapy Response Through Computational Modeling, Weiling Zhao and Xiaobo Zhou
SimBinder-IF: Structure-Aware Antibody Affinity Optimization via Efficient Preference Learning, Xinyan Zhao, Yi-Ching Tang, Rivaaj Monsia, et al.
Global-Local Feature Fusion: A Robust Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Multiclass Brain Tumor Classification With Grad-Cam++ Interpretation, Zhongming Zhao
From Performance to Practice: Knowledge-Distilled Segmentator for On-Premises Clinical Workflows, Zhongming Zhao, Xiaoqian Jiang, and Yu-CHun Hsu
Transcriptomics and Metabolomics Analysis Reveal Cell Subpopulations of Trophoblast Cells Associated With Preeclampsia, Zixing Zhong, Hetong Li, Caihong Zheng, et al.
SPAE: Deciphering Cell Cycle Dynamics and Cell States in Single-cell RNA-seq Data, Xiaobo Zhou
Spatial2GWAS: A Database for Linking Spatial Transcriptomic Regions With GWAS Traits, Xiaobo Zhou
KnockRBP: An Integrated Multi-omics Database of Functional Perturbation Profiles for RNA-Binding Proteins, Xiaobo Zhou and Yungang Xu
Submissions from 2025
A Folding-Docking-Affinity Framework for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction
AI Solutions to the Radiology Workforce Shortage