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 2023
Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Patient-Provider Electronic Communications, Michael A Hansen, Rebecca Chen, Jacqueline Hirth, James Langabeer, and Roger Zoorob
Logical Definition-Based Identification of Potential Missing Concepts in Snomed CT, Xubing Hao, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Kirk Roberts, and Licong Cui
A Gcn-Based Approach to Uncover Misaligned Synonymous Terms in the Umls Metathesaurus, Xubing Hao, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Jay Shi, and Licong Cui
An Ontology-Based Approach for Harmonization and Cross-Cohort Query of Alzheimer’s Disease Data Resources, Xubing Hao, Xiaojin Li, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Cui Tao, Paul E Schulz, and Licong Cui
Digital Solutions Observed in Clinical Trials: A Formative Feasibility Scoping Review, Taylor M Harrison, Sungrim Moon, Liwei Wang, Sunyang Fu, and Hongfang Liu
A Guide to the Brain Initiative Cell Census Network Data Ecosystem, Michael Hawrylycz, Maryann E Martone, Giorgio A Ascoli, Jan G Bjaalie, Hong-Wei Dong, Satrajit S Ghosh, Jesse Gillis, Ronna Hertzano, David R Haynor, Patrick R Hof, Yongsoo Kim, Ed Lein, Yufeng Liu, Jeremy A Miller, Partha P Mitra, Eran Mukamel, Lydia Ng, David Osumi-Sutherland, Hanchuan Peng, Patrick L Ray, Raymond Sanchez, Aviv Regev, Alex Ropelewski, Richard H Scheuermann, Shawn Zheng Kai Tan, Carol L Thompson, Timothy Tickle, Hagen Tilgner, Merina Varghese, Brock Wester, Owen White, Hongkui Zeng, Brian Aevermann, David Allemang, Seth Ament, Thomas L Athey, Cody Baker, Katherine S Baker, Pamela M Baker, Anita Bandrowski, Samik Banerjee, Prajal Bishwakarma, Ambrose Carr, Min Chen, Roni Choudhury, Jonah Cool, Heather Creasy, Florence D'Orazi, Kylee Degatano, Benjamin Dichter, Song-Lin Ding, Tim Dolbeare, Joseph R Ecker, Rongxin Fang, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Timothy P Fliss, James Gee, Tom Gillespie, Nathan Gouwens, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Yaroslav O Halchenko, Nomi L Harris, Brian R Herb, Houri Hintiryan, Gregory Hood, Sam Horvath, Bingxing Huo, Dorota Jarecka, Shengdian Jiang, Farzaneh Khajouei, Elizabeth A Kiernan, Huseyin Kir, Lauren Kruse, Changkyu Lee, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Yang Li, Hanqing Liu, Lijuan Liu, Anup Markuhar, James Mathews, Kaylee L Mathews, Chris Mezias, Michael I Miller, Tyler Mollenkopf, Shoaib Mufti, Christopher J Mungall, Joshua Orvis, Maja A Puchades, Lei Qu, Joseph P Receveur, Bing Ren, Nathan Sjoquist, Brian Staats, Daniel Tward, Cindy T J van Velthoven, Quanxin Wang, Fangming Xie, Hua Xu, Zizhen Yao, Zhixi Yun, Yun Renee Zhang, W Jim Zheng, and Brian Zingg
Annotation and Information Extraction of Consumer-Friendly Health Articles for Enhancing Laboratory Test Reporting, Zhe He, Shubo Tian, Arslan Erdengasileng, Karim Hanna, Yang Gong, Zhan Zhang, Xiao Luo, and Mia Liza A Lustria
Transiently Impaired Endothelial Function During Thyroid Hormone Withdrawal in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Patients, Li-Ying Hou, Xiao Li, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Chuang Xi, Chen-Tian Shen, Hong-Jun Song, Wen-Kun Bai, Zhong-Ling Qiu, and Quan-Yong Luo
Confidence-based Laboratory Test Reduction Recommendation Algorithm, Tongtong Huang, Linda T Li, Elmer V Bernstam, and Xiaoqian Jiang
Data Mining Pipeline for COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Analysis Using a Large Electronic Health Record, Yan Huang, Xiaojin Li, Deepa Dongarwar, Hulin Wu, and Guo-Qiang Zhang
Quantitative Proteomic Screening Uncovers Candidate Diagnostic and Monitoring Serum Biomarkers of Ankylosing Spondylitis, Mark Hwang, Shervin Assassi, Jim Zheng, Jessica Castillo, Reyna Chavez, Kamala Vanarsa, Chandra Mohan, and John Reveille
De Novo Mutations Disturb Early Brain Development More Frequently Than Common Variants in Schizophrenia, Toshiyuki Itai, Peilin Jia, Yulin Dai, Jingchun Chen, Xiangning Chen, and Zhongming Zhao
Rotational Symmetry Breaking in Superconducting Nickelate Nd0.8Sr0.2NiO2 Films, Haoran Ji, Yi Liu, Yanan Li, Xiang Ding, Zheyuan Xie, Chengcheng Ji, Shichao Qi, Xiaoyue Gao, Minghui Xu, Peng Gao, Liang Qiao, Yi-Feng Yang, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Jian Wang
Comparative Analyses Define Differences Between Bhd-Associated Renal Tumour and Sporadic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma, Ryosuke Jikuya, Todd A Johnson, Kazuhiro Maejima, Jisong An, Young-Seok Ju, Hwajin Lee, Kyungsik Ha, WooJeung Song, Youngwook Kim, Yuki Okawa, Shota Sasagawa, Yuki Kanazashi, Masashi Fujita, Seiya Imoto, Taku Mitome, Shinji Ohtake, Go Noguchi, Sachi Kawaura, Yasuhiro Iribe, Kota Aomori, Tomoyuki Tatenuma, Mitsuru Komeya, Hiroki Ito, Yusuke Ito, Kentaro Muraoka, Mitsuko Furuya, Ikuma Kato, Satoshi Fujii, Haruka Hamanoue, Tomohiko Tamura, Masaya Baba, Toshio Suda, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Kazuhide Makiyama, Masahiro Yao, Brian M Shuch, Christopher J Ricketts, Laura S Schmidt, W Marston Linehan, Hidewaki Nakagawa, and Hisashi Hasumi
Ontologies Applied in Clinical Decision Support System Rules: Systematic Review, Xia Jing, Hua Min, Yang Gong, Paul Biondich, David Robinson, Timothy Law, Christian Nohr, Arild Faxvaag, Lior Rennert, Nina Hubig, and Ronald Gimbel
Learning in a Virtual Environment to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Outcomes: Randomized Controlled Trial, Constance M Johnson, Gail D'Eramo Melkus, Louise Reagan, Wei Pan, Sathya Amarasekara, Katherine Pereira, Nancy Hassell, Sarah Nowlin, and Allison Vorderstrasse
Mapping the Delineation of Practice to the Amia Foundational Domains for Applied Health Informatics, Todd R Johnson, Eta S Berner, Sue S Feldman, Josette Jones, Annette L Valenta, Damian Borbolla, Gloria Deckard, and LaVerne Manos
Why Is Biomedical Informatics Hard? A Fundamental Framework, Todd R Johnson and Elmer V Bernstam
A Nurse-Led Telehealth Program for Diabetes Foot Care: Feasibility and Usability Study, Hsiao-Hui Ju, Rashmi Momin, Stanley Cron, Jed Jularbal, Jeffery Alford, and Constance Johnson
Dental CLAIRES: Contrastive LAnguage Image REtrieval Search for Dental Research, Tanjida Kabir, Luyao Chen, Muhammad F Walji, Luca Giancardo, Xiaoqian Jiang, and Shayan Shams
Identifying Contributing Factors Associated With Dental Adverse Events Through a Pragmatic Electronic Health Record-Based Root Cause Analysis, Elsbeth Kalenderian, Suhasini Bangar, Alfa Yansane, Duong Tran, Emily Sedlock, Yan Xiao, Janelle Urata, Greg Olson, Amy Franklin, Krishna Kookal, Ana Ibarra-Noriega, Sayali Tungare, Oluwabunmi Tokede, Heiko Spallek, Joel M White, and Muhammad F Walji
Mitochondrial DNA Variants at Low-Level Heteroplasmy and Decreased Copy Numbers in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Tissues with Kidney Cancer, Yuki Kanazashi, Kazuhiro Maejima, Todd A Johnson, Shota Sasagawa, Ryosuke Jikuya, Hisashi Hasumi, Naomichi Matsumoto, Shigekatsu Maekawa, Wataru Obara, and Hidewaki Nakagawa
Investigating Cellular Heterogeneity at the Single-Cell Level by the Flexible and Mobile Extrachromosomal Circular DNA, Jiajinlong Kang, Yulin Dai, Jinze Li, Huihui Fan, and Zhongming Zhao
Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles as a Gene Delivery Platform for Cancer Therapy, Nisar Ul Khaliq, Juyeon Lee, Joohyeon Kim, Yejin Kim, Sohyeon Yu, Jisu Kim, Sangwoo Kim, Daekyung Sung, and Hyungjun Kim
Target cell-specific synaptic dynamics of excitatory to inhibitory neuron connections in supragranular layers of human neocortex., Mean-Hwan Kim, Cristina Radaelli, Elliot R Thomsen, Deja Monet, Thomas Chartrand, Nikolas L Jorstad, Joseph T Mahoney, Michael J Taormina, Brian Long, Katherine Baker, Trygve E Bakken, Luke Campagnola, Tamara Casper, Michael Clark, Nick Dee, Florence D'Orazi, Clare Gamlin, Brian E Kalmbach, Sara Kebede, Brian R Lee, Lindsay Ng, Jessica Trinh, Charles Cobbs, Ryder P Gwinn, C Dirk Keene, Andrew L Ko, Jeffrey G Ojemann, Daniel L Silbergeld, Staci A Sorensen, Jim Berg, Kimberly A Smith, Philip R Nicovich, Tim Jarsky, Hongkui Zeng, Jonathan T Ting, Boaz P Levi, and Ed Lein