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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 2026

A Hybrid ViT-L/32-MaxViT-L Architecture With Adaptive Gated Fusion for Multiclass Gastrointestinal Disease Detection and Multi-method post-hoc Explainability

A User-Friendly Graphical User Interface for Paw Touch Classification in Rodent Cylinder Testing

Content Matters, Context Matters: Unraveling Behavior Dynamics in an Online Health Community for Tobacco Cessation

Evaluating ICD-11 Against Established Terminology Standards: A Dual-Framework Analysis

Frame: Fast Reference-Based Ancestry Makeup Estimation Tool

Implanting Microelectrode Arrays in the Bottom of the Central Sulcus Targeting Somatosensory Area 3a for Restoration of Proprioception

PRISM-xQTL: Pleiotropic Relationships Integrated With System-Level Multiomic Qtl Analysis for Causal Genes and Molecular Mediators in Alzheimer’s Disease

PROVGEN: A Privacy-Preserving Approach for Outcome Validation in Genomic Research

Real-World Effectiveness of Second-Line Therapies in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Insights From Propensity-Weighted Comparative Analyses of Longitudinal EHR Data

scPER: A Rigorous Computational Approach to Determine Cellular Subtypes in Tumors Aligned With Cancer Phenotypes From Total RNA Sequencing

The AI-Native Health Science Institution Innovation Theater vs Structural Redesign

Accelerating AI Innovation in Healthcare: Real-World Clinical Research Applications on the Mayo Clinic Platform, Ahmed Abdelhameed, Xiaodi Li, Jianfu Li, et al.

MedADL: High-Throughput Information Extraction of Functional Status From Electronic Health Records to Advance Frailty Assessment in Older Adults, Jaerong Ahn, Vanessa Ramirez, Jude Des Bordes, et al.

Sex Differences in the Protective Effect of Brain Volume: Age Attenuates Protection in Women, Hussain M Azeem, Ritesh Bajaj, Mahnoor Khalid, et al.

Scaling the Production of Bromine-76 and Bromine-77 Labeled Poly-ADP-Ribose-Polymerase-Targeted Theranostics for Preclinical Use, Todd E Barnhart, Jonathan W Engle, and Paul A Ellison

Clinical Document Metadata Extraction: A Scoping Review, Steven Bedrick, Andrew Wen, and Hongfang Liu

Auricular Point Acupressure Self-Management (Apa-Sm) Program for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Among Rural Populations: A Protocol for a Pragmatic, Randomized Controlled Trial, Rupsikha Bora, Alee Lockman, and Tonychris Nnaka

Early Immune Dysregulation in Mtb/Siv Co-infection Resists cART Treatment at the Single-Cell Level, Todd Bradley, Shabaana A Khader, and Deepak Kaushal

Smart Pediatric Oncology Tracker of Symptoms (SPOTS), a Web-Based Interface for the Pediatric PRO-CTCAE: Development and Usability Study, Jacqueline Castillo, Stefanie Pieper, Cecile Nguyen, et al.

The Influence of Bapineuzumab and Semagacestat on Rapid Progressors: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Matias Cattani, Catherine Zhang, Christine M Farrell, et al.

Prescription Opioid Misuse Among High School Athletes During the Opioid Prescribing Limit Law Era: YRBSS 2017-2023, Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, Rakshitha Vijendra, and Christine Bakos-Block

Computable Phenotypes for Research Using Real-World Data: Experiences From the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory, Andrea L Cheville, Miriam O Ezenwa, Andrew D Boyd, et al.

Proceedings of the Second Artificial Intelligence in Primary Immunodeficiency (AIPI) Meeting, Aaron Chin, Rumi Chunara, Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, et al.

Feasibility of Identifying Factors Related to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia in Real-World Data, Yu-Neng Chuang, Xia Hu, Serena Jingchuan Guo, et al.

VISDB 20: A Manually Curated Resource of Viral Integration Sites and Their Regulatory Maps in Human Diseases, Citu Citu, Ajeet Singh, Xinyi Liu, et al.