Browsing by Author "Qingxia Chen"
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Wang, Rui (2018-07-22)Department: BiostatisticsOur brain network, as a complex integrative system, consists of many different regions. Each region has its own task and function and simultaneously shares structural and functional information. With the developed imaging ...
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Leegon, Jeffrey Thomas (2009-07-28)Department: Biomedical InformaticsUse of Bayesian networks (BN) has increased in medicine. Traditionally, BNs have been developed by experts or from the current literature. Several applications implement "off the shelf" BN structure learning algorithms, ...
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Chen, Yukun (2015-06-25)Department: Biomedical InformaticsNamed entity recognition (NER) is one of the fundamental tasks for building clinical natural language processing (NLP) systems. Machine learning (ML) based approaches can achieve good performance. However, they often require ...
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Smith, Joshua Carl (2016-04-09)Department: Biomedical InformaticsUnrecognized adverse drug effects (ADEs) pose a serious clinical problem. They negatively affect patients’ health and quality of life, generate preventable emergency department visits and hospital admissions, and increase ...
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McNeer, Elizabeth Ann (2018-07-24)Department: BiostatisticsChart reviews are often needed to collect or adjudicate information for retrospective studies in the absence of reliable research databases. For studies with smaller sample sizes, it is relatively feasible to review all ...
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Yan, Zhou (2013-04-18)Department: Biomedical InformaticsExisting research on evaluating patients’ interests has focused on user surveys, which encounter problems such as high financial and time costs as well as a low user participation rate. To address these problems, this study ...
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Neal, Jacquelyn Elizabeth (2018-07-27)Department: BiostatisticsThere are multiple existing methods to modeling disease progression, and the relationship between risk factors and progression is an important consideration when choosing which method to use. This thesis is motivated by ...
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Yin, Zhijun (2017-11-27)Department: BiostatisticsHormonal therapy adherence is challenging for many patients with hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer. Gaining intuition into their adherence behavior would assist in improving outcomes by pinpointing, and eventually ...