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
Automatic Uncovering of Patient Primary Concerns in Portal Messages Using a Fusion Framework of Pretrained Language models.automatic Uncovering of Patient Primary Concerns in Portal Messages Using a Fusion Framework of Pretrained Language Models, Yang Ren, Yuqi Wu, Jungwei W Fan, Aditya Khurana, Sunyang Fu, Dezhi Wu, Hongfang Liu, and Ming Huang
Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes Enables Early Inborn Error of Immunity Risk Ascertainment, Kirk Roberts, Aaron T Chin, Klaus Loewy, Lisa Pompeii, Harold Shin, and Nicholas L Rider
Unveiling Gene Interactions in Alzheimer's Disease by Integrating Genetic and Epigenetic Data with a Network-Based Approach, Keith L Sanders, Astrid M Manuel, Andi Liu, Boyan Leng, Xiangning Chen, and Zhongming Zhao
Study on a Strong Polymer Gel by the Addition of Micron Graphite Oxide Powder and Its Plugging of Fracture, Bin Shi, Guangming Zhang, Lei Zhang, Chengjun Wang, Zhonghui Li, and Fangping Chen
Sequencing Conversational Turns in Peer Interactions: An Integrated Approach for Evidence-Based Conversational Agent for Just-In-Time Nicotine Cravings Intervention, Tavleen Singh, Michael Truong, Kirk Roberts, and Sahiti Myneni
Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Challenges and Opportunities Identified From Workflow Execution Models, Dean F Sittig, Aziz Boxwala, Adam Wright, Courtney Zott, Nicole A Gauthreaux, James Swiger, Edwin A Lomotan, and Prashila Dullabh
Modernizing and Harmonizing Regulatory Data Requirements for Genetically Modified Crops-Perspectives From a Workshop, Nicholas P Storer, Abigail R Simmons, Jordan Sottosanto, Jennifer A Anderson, Ming Hua Huang, Debbie Mahadeo, Carey A Mathesius, Mitscheli Sanches da Rocha, Shuang Song, and Ewa Urbanczyk-Wochniak
Prevention and Potential Treatment Strategies for Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Bo-Wen Sun, Peng-Peng Zhang, Zong-Hao Wang, Xia Yao, Meng-Lan He, Rui-Ting Bai, Hao Che, Jing Lin, Tian Xie, Zi Hui, Xiang-Yang Ye, and Li-Wei Wang
A/B Testing of User Enrollment Forms to Enhance Diversity in the Biomedical Workforce via the National Research Mentoring Network: User-Centered Design Case Study, Toufeeq Ahmed Syed, Erika L Thompson, Jason Johnson, Zainab Latif, Nan Kennedy, Damaris Javier, Katie Stinson, and Jamboor K Vishwanatha
Diverse Mentoring Connections Across Institutional Boundaries in the Biomedical Sciences: Innovative Graph Database Analysis, Toufeeq Ahmed Syed, Erika L Thompson, Zainab Latif, Jay Johnson, Damaris Javier, Katie Stinson, Gabrielle Saleh, and Jamboor K Vishwanatha
Xuebijing Improves Intestinal Microcirculation Dysfunction in Septic Rats by Regulating the VEGF-A/PI3K/Akt Signaling Pathway, A-Ling Tang, Yan Li, Li-Chao Sun, Xiao-Yu Liu, Nan Gao, Sheng-Tao Yan, and Guo-Qiang Zhang
SAFER: Sub-Hypergraph Attention-Based Neural Network for Predicting Effective Responses to Dose Combinations, Yi-Ching Tang, Rongbin Li, Jing Tang, W Jim Zheng, and Xiaoqian Jiang
Development and Validation of a Rule-Based Algorithm to Identify Periodontal Diagnosis Using Structured Electronic Health Record Data, Bunmi Tokede, Ryan Brandon, Chun-Teh Lee, Guo-Hao Lin, Joel White, Alfa Yansane, Xiaoqian Jiang, Elsbeth Kalenderian, and Muhammad Walji
Metabolomics Analysis Reveals Metabolite Diversity of the Rare Cliff Plant Oresitrophe rupifraga Unge, Hao Wang, Jinjun Cao, Sheng Chang, Caifeng Yan, and Guangming Zhang
ML241 Antagonizes ERK 1/2 Activation and Inhibits Rotavirus Proliferation, Jinlan Wang, Xiaoqing Hu, Jinyuan Wu, Xiaochen Lin, Rong Chen, Chenxing Lu, Xiaopeng Song, Qingmei Leng, Yan Li, Xiangjing Kuang, Jinmei Li, Lida Yao, Xianqiong Tang, Jun Ye, Guangming Zhang, Maosheng Sun, Yan Zhou, and Hongjun Li
Prioritizing Clinically Significant Lung Cancer Somatic Mutations for Targeted Therapy Through Efficient NGS Data Filtering System, Jinlian Wang, Hui Li, and Hongfang Liu
Identification of Immune-Associated Biomarkers of Diabetes Nephropathy Tubulointerstitial Injury Based on Machine Learning: A Bioinformatics Multi-Chip Integrated Analysis, Lin Wang, Jiaming Su, Zhongjie Liu, Shaowei Ding, Yaotan Li, Baoluo Hou, Yuxin Hu, Zhaoxi Dong, Jingyi Tang, Hongfang Liu, and Weijing Liu
Identification of New EGFR Inhibitors by Structure-Based Virtual Screening and Biological Evaluation, Shuyi Wang, Xiaotian Xu, Chuxin Pan, Qian Guo, Qinlan Li, Shanhe Wan, Zhonghuang Li, Jiajie Zhang, and Xiaoyun Wu
Semirecumbent Positioning During Anesthesia Recovery and Postoperative Hypoxemia: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Xinghe Wang, Kedi Guo, Jia Sun, Yuping Yang, Yan Wu, Xihui Tang, Yuqing Xu, Qingsong Chen, Si Zeng, Liwei Wang, and Su Liu
Revealing chronic disease progression patterns using Gaussian process for stage inference., Yanfei Wang, Weiling Zhao, Angela Ross, Lei You, Hongyu Wang, and Xiaobo Zhou
Prediction of Hydrogel Degradation Time Based on Central Composite Design, Ying Wang, Deji Liu, Ruiquan Liao, Guangming Zhang, Manlai Zhang, and Xiaohui Li
Mitochondria Regulate Proliferation in Adult Cardiac Myocytes, Gregory B Waypa, Kimberly A Smith, Paul T Mungai, Vincent J Dudley, Kathryn A Helmin, Benjamin D Singer, Clara Bien Peek, Joseph Bass, Lauren Nelson, Sanjiv J Shah, Gaston Ofman, J Andrew Wasserstrom, William A Muller, Alexander V Misharin, G R Scott Budinger, Hiam Abdala-Valencia, Navdeep S Chandel, Danijela Dokic, Elizabeth Bartom, Shuang Zhang, Yuki Tatekoshi, Amir Mahmoodzadeh, Hossein Ardehali, Edward B Thorp, and Paul T Schumacker
Associations between Longer Leukocyte Telomere Length and Increased Lung Cancer Risk among Never Smokers in Urban China, Jason Y Y Wong, Xiao-Ou Shu, Wei Hu, Batel Blechter, Jianxin Shi, Kevin Wang, Richard Cawthon, Qiuyin Cai, Gong Yang, Mohammad L Rahman, Bu-Tian Ji, Yutang Gao, Wei Zheng, Nathaniel Rothman, and Qing Lan
Human Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter 1: Novel Biomarker and Prognostic Indicator for Patients with Gemcitabine-Treated Pancreatic Cancer, Jianchun Xiao, Fangyu Zhao, Wenhao Luo, Gang Yang, Yicheng Wang, Jiangdong Qiu, Yueze Liu, Lei You, Lianfang Zheng, and Taiping Zhang
Igwas: Image-Based Genome-Wide Association of Self-Supervised Deep Phenotyping of Retina Fundus Images, Ziqian Xie, Tao Zhang, Sangbae Kim, Jiaxiong Lu, Wanheng Zhang, Cheng-Hui Lin, Man-Ru Wu, Alexander Davis, Roomasa Channa, Luca Giancardo, Han Chen, Sui Wang, Rui Chen, and Degui Zhi