2015

Matiasz NJ, Silva AJ, Hsu W. Synthesizing clinical trials for evidence-based medicine: A representation of empirical and hypothetical causal relations. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Joint Summits on Translational Science: AMIA Summit on Clinical Research Informatics. San Francisco; 2015. PDF
McNamara M, Arnold CW, Sarma KV, Aberle DR, Garon E, Bui AAT. Patient Portal Preferences: Perspectives on Imaging Information. J Assoc Inf Sci Technol. 2015 Aug 1;66(8):1606-1615. DOI: 10.1002/asi.23269. PMID: 26191535; PMCID: PMC4504683PDF
Nikkola E, Laiwalla A, Ko A, Alvarez M, Connolly M, Ooi YC, Hsu W, Bui AAT, Pajukanta P, Gonzalez NR. Remote Ischemic Conditioning Alters Methylation and Expression of Cell Cycle Genes in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Stroke. 2015 Sep;46(9):2445-51. DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.009618. Epub 2015 Aug 6. PMID: 26251247; PMCID: PMC4550559.
Hsu W, Gonzalez NR, Chien A, Pablo Villablanca J, Pajukanta P, Viñuela F, Bui AAT. An integrated, ontology-driven approach to constructing observational databases for research. J Biomed Inform. 2015 Jun;55:132-42. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.03.008. Epub 2015 Mar 26. PMID: 25817919; PMCID: PMC4464942. PDF
Garcia-Gathright JI, Oh A, Abarca PA, Han M, Sago W, Spiegel ML, Wolf B, Garon EB, Bui AAT, Aberle DR. Representing and extracting lung cancer study metadata: study objective and study design. Comput Biol Med. 2015 Mar;58:63-72. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.01.004. Epub 2015 Jan 13. PMID: 25618216; PMCID: PMC4331232. PDF
Shen S, Bui AAT, Cong J, Hsu W. An automated lung segmentation approach using bidirectional chain codes to improve nodule detection accuracy. Comput Biol Med. 2015 Feb;57:139-49. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.12.008. Epub 2014 Dec 18. PMID: 25557199.
Duggan N, Bae E, Shen S, Hsu W, Bui AAT, Jones E, Glavin M, Vese L. A technique for lung nodule candidate detection in CT using global minimization methods. Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Springer International Publishing; 2015. PDF
Speier W, Deshpande A, Pouratian N. A method for optimizing EEG electrode number and configuration for signal acquisition in P300 speller systems. Clin Neurophysiol. 2015 Jun;126(6):1171-1177. DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.09.021. Epub 2014 Sep 28. PMID: 25316166; PMCID: PMC4377128PDF
Arnold CW, Wallace WD, Chen S, Oh A, Abtin F, Genshaft S, Binder S, Aberle DR, Enzmann DR. RadPath: A Web-based System for Integrating and Correlating Radiology and Pathology Findings During Cancer Diagnosis. Acad Radiol. 2016 Jan;23(1):90-100. DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2015.09.009. Epub 2015 Oct 27. PMID: 26521686. PDF
Oh AS, Arnold CW, Vangala S, Wallace WD, Genshaft SJ, Sarma KV, Aberle DR. Imaging-histologic discordance at percutaneous biopsy of the lung. Acad Radiol. 2015 Apr;22(4):481-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2014.11.009. Epub 2015 Jan 15. PMID: 25601302PDF
Laviana AA, Ilg AM, Veruttipong D, Tan HJ, Burke MA, Niedzwiecki DR, Kupelian PA, King CR, Steinberg ML, Kundavaram CR, Kamrava M, Kaplan AL, Moriarity AK, Hsu W, Margolis DJA, Hu JC, Saigal CS. Utilizing time-driven activity-based costing to understand the short- and long-term costs of treating localized, low-risk prostate cancer. Cancer. 2016 Feb 1;122(3):447-55. DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29743. Epub 2015 Nov 2. PMID: 26524087. PDF

Abtin F, Suh RD, Nasehi L, Han SX, Hsu W, Quirk M, Genshaft SJ, Gutierrez AJ, Cameron RB. Percutaneous cryoablation for the treatment of recurrent thymoma: preliminary safety and efficacy. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2015 May;26(5):709-14. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2014.12.024. PMID: 25921453.

Song L, Hsu W, Xu J, van der Schaar M. Using Contextual Learning to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy: Application in Breast Cancer Screening. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2016 May;20(3):902-914. DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2015.2414934. Epub 2015 Mar 20. PMID: 25807575. PDF
Meng F, Morioka CA. Automating the generation of lexical patterns for processing free text in clinical documents. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Sep;22(5):980-6. DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv012. Epub 2015 May 14. PMID: 25977405; PMCID: PMC4986670. PDF
Speier W, Arnold CW, Deshpande A, Knall J, Pouratian N. Incorporating advanced language models into the P300 speller using particle filtering. J Neural Eng. 2015 Aug;12(4):046018. DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/12/4/046018. Epub 2015 Jun 10. PMID: 26061188; PMCID: PMC4509796PDF
Arnold CW, Oh A, Chen S, Speier W. Evaluating topic model interpretability from a primary care physician perspective. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2016 Feb;124:67-75. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2015.10.014. Epub 2015 Oct 30. PMID: 26614020; PMCID: PMC4724339PDF
Smedley NF, Chau N, Petruse A, Bui AAT, Naeim A, Hsu W. A platform for generating and validating breast risk models from clinical data: Towards patient-centered risk stratified screening. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. San Francisco, CA, USA; 2015.
Shen S, Han SX, Petousis P, Meng F, Bui AAT, Hsu W. Continuous Markov Model Approach Using Individual Patient Data to Estimate Mean Sojourn Time of Lung Cancer. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. San Francisco, CA, USA; 2015.
Hsu W, Han SX, Arnold CW, Bui AAT, Enzmann DR. A data-driven approach for quality assessment of radiologic interpretations. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2016 Apr;23(e1):e152-6. DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv161. Epub 2015 Nov 25. PMID: 26606938; PMCID: PMC4954616.
Mostafavi L, Marfori W, Arellano C, Tognolini A, Speier W, Adibi A, Ruehm SG. Prevalence of coronary artery disease evaluated by coronary CT angiography in women with mammographically detected breast arterial calcifications. PLoS One. 2015 Apr 9;10(4):e0122289. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122289. PMID: 25856075; PMCID: PMC4391859.
Hollada J, Speier W, Oshiro T, Marzan-McGill R, Ruehm SG, Bassett LW, Wells C. Patients' Perceptions of Radiation Exposure Associated With Mammography. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2015 Jul;205(1):215-21. DOI: 10.2214/AJR.14.13650. PMID: 26102402.
Hollada J, Mostafavi L, Speier W, Javidi S, Ruehm S. Cardiac Imaging Exams: Patient Awareness of Associated Utilization of Radiation. RSNA Annual Meeting. 2015.
Winter A, Levesque E, Noorah Z, Daurès J-P, Landais P, Féray C, Azoulay D. A prognostic score of futility for early mortality in liver transplantation in cirrhotic patients. ISCB. Utrecht, the Netherlands; 2015.

2014

Matiasz NJ, Hsu W, Silva AJ. ResearchMaps.org, a free web application to track causal information in biology. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (MCCS) Symposium. Washington, D.C.; 2014.
Singleton KW, Bui AAT, Hsu W. Transfer and transport: incorporating causal methods for improving predictive models. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Oct;21(e2):e374-5. DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002968. Epub 2014 Jul 9. PMID: 25008007; PMCID: PMC4173188. PDF
Ho KC, Speier W, El-Saden S, Liebeskind DS, Saver JL, Bui AAT, Arnold CW. Predicting discharge mortality after acute ischemic stroke using balanced data. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2014 Nov 14;2014:1787-96. PMID: 25954451; PMCID: PMC4419881. PDF
Singleton KW, Speier W, Bui AAT, Hsu W. Motivating the additional use of external validity: examining transportability in a model of glioblastoma multiforme. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2014 Nov 14;2014:1930-9. PMID: 25954466; PMCID: PMC4419978. PDF
Speier W, Arnold C, Lu J, Deshpande A, Pouratian N. Integrating language information with a hidden Markov model to improve communication rate in the P300 speller. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2014 May;22(3):678-84. DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2014.2300091. Epub 2014 Jan 21. PMID: 24760927; PMCID: PMC4205234. PDF
McNamara M, Sarma KV, Aberle DR, Bui AAT, Arnold CW. Data model for personalized patient health guidelines: an exploratory study. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2014 Nov 14;2014:1835-44. PMID: 25954456; PMCID: PMC4419921.PDF
Hollada J, Marfori W, Tognolini A, Speier W, Ristow L, Ruehm SG. Successful patient recruitment in CT imaging clinical trials: what factors influence patient participation? Acad Radiol. 2014 Jan;21(1):52-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2013.09.016. PMID: 24331264. PDF
Garcia-Gathright JI, Meng F, Hsu W. UCLA at TREC 2014 clinical decision support track: Exploring language models, query expansion, and boosting. The Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2014). 2014. PDF
Haas BE, Gonzalez NR, Nikkola E, Connolly M, Hsu W, Bui AAT, Vinuela F, Pajukanta P. Feasibility and preliminary results of whole blood RNA-sequencing analysis in patients with intracranial aneurysms. Stroke. 2014;45.
Ho KC, Speier W, El-Saden S, Liebeskind DS, Saver JL, Bui AAT, Arnold CW. Predicting discharge mortality in acute ischemic stroke patients using support vector machines and affinity propagation. MUCMD. 2014.
Tong M, McNamara M. A patient portal for clinical trials: Towards increasing patient enrollment. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2014. PDF
Han SX, Hsu W, Arnold CW, Margolis DJA, Bui AAT, Enzmann DR. RadQA: Automated quality control of radiological interpretations in prostate cancer. RSNA Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL; 2014.
Malekmohammaki M, Speier W, Pouratian N. Pallidal-Cortical Beta Coherence is Activity-modulated by not Causally related in PD. ASSFN Biennial Meeting. 2014.

2013

Speier W, Knall J, Pouratian N. Unsupervised training of brain-computer interface systems using expectation maximization. Neural Engineering (NER) 2013 6th International IEEE/EMBS Conference. 2013. DOI: 10.1109/NER.2013.6696032PDF
Hsu W, Bui AAT. Leveraging domain knowledge to facilitate visual exploration of large population datasets. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2013 Nov 16;2013:615-23. PMID: 24551363; PMCID: PMC3900204PDF
Arnold CW, McNamara M, El-Saden S, Chen S, Taira RK, Bui AAT. Imaging informatics for consumer health: towards a radiology patient portal. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013 Nov-Dec;20(6):1028-36. DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001457. Epub 2013 Jun 5. PMID: 23739614; PMCID: PMC3822110.PDF
Lu J, Speier W, Hu X, Pouratian N. The effects of stimulus timing features on P300 speller performance. Clin Neurophysiol. 2013 Feb;124(2):306-14. DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.08.002. Epub 2012 Aug 29. PMID: 22939456; PMCID: PMC3595069. PDF
Speier W, Arnold CW, Pouratian N. Evaluating true BCI communication rate through mutual information and language models. PLoS One. 2013 Oct 22;8(10):e78432. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078432. PMID: 24167623; PMCID: PMC3805537. PDF
Love A, Arnold CW, El-Saden S, Liebeskind DS, Andrada LP, Saver J, Bui AAT. Unifying acute stroke treatment guidelines for a Bayesian belief network. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:1012. PMID: 23920786PDF
Bui AAT, Hsu W, Arnold CW, El-Saden S, Aberle DR, Taira RK. Imaging-based observational databases for clinical problem solving: the role of informatics. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013 Nov-Dec;20(6):1053-8. DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001340. Epub 2013 Jun 17. PMID: 23775172; PMCID: PMC3822107. PDF
Taira RK, Arnold CW. Hierarchical semantic structures for medical NLP. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:1194. PMID: 23920968PDF
Chen X, Arnold CW. Integrating UIMA annotators in a web-based text processing framework. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:1191. PMID: 23920965PDF
Arnold CW, Nguyen T, Janzen C. BabySTEPS: a sugar tracking electronic portal system for gestational diabetes. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:1123. PMID: 23920897PDF
Hsu W, Markey MK, Wang MD. Biomedical imaging informatics in the era of precision medicine: progress, challenges, and opportunities. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013 Nov-Dec;20(6):1010-3. DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002315. PMID: 24114330; PMCID: PMC3822124PDF
Tong M, Hsu W, Taira RK. A formal representation for numerical data presented in published clinical trial reports. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:856-60. PMID: 23920679; PMCID: PMC5025869PDF
McNamara M, Arnold CW, Sarma KV, Aberle DR, Bui AAT. Patient portal for NSCLC with supporting health information. RSNA Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL; 2013.
Abtin F, Sandberg JK, Suh RD, Hsu W, Sayre JW, Cameron RB. Percutaneous cryoablation in management of recurrent mesothelioma after surgical pleurectomy and decortication: Efficacy and predictors of local recurrence. RSNA Annual Meeting. 2013.