Knowledge representation and Data integration

Advancements in biomedical research require the sharing of datasets, integration of disparate datasets, and access to shared knowledge frameworks. Therefore, it is important that biomedical knowledge is encoded in ways that are semantically precise, standardized, and computable. Our research topics include quality assurance for biomedical ontologies, ontology-guided data integration, and the development of user interfaces to support interacting with ontologies.

Projects

• University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center - Cancer Center Support Grant
• Supplement: Cost Extension - Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science

Recent publications and other works

• • journal article | 2020
  • Tao S, Zeng N, Hands I, Hurt-Mueller J, Durbin EB, Cui L, Zhang GQ
  • Web-based interactive mapping from data dictionaries to ontologies, with an application to cancer registry
  • BMC medical informatics and decision making

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    • journal article | 2020
    • Hanauer DA, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Beno MF, Del Fiol G, Durbin EB, Gologorskaya O, Harris D, Harnett B, Kawamoto K, May B, Meeks E, Pfaff E, Weiss J, Zheng K
    • Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE): An Information Retrieval Tool for Supporting Cancer Research
    • JCO clinical cancer informatics

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      • journal article | 2020
      • Cui L, Abeysinghe R, Zheng F, Tao S, Zeng N, Hands I, Durbin EB, Whiteman L, Remennik L, Sioutos N, Zhang GQ
      • Enhancing the Quality of Hierarchic Relations in the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus to Enable Faceted Query of Cancer Registry Data
      • JCO clinical cancer informatics

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• • journal article | 2020
  • Hasan SMS, Rivera D, Wu XC, Durbin EB, Christian JB, Tourassi G
  • Knowledge Graph-Enabled Cancer Data Analytics
  • IEEE J Biomed Health Inform

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• • journal article | 2020
  • Walsh CG, Chaudhry B, Dua P, Goodman KW, Kaplan B, Kavuluru R, Solomonides A, Subbian V
  • Stigma, biomarkers, and algorithmic bias: recommendations for precision behavioral health with artificial intelligence
  • JAMIA open

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• • journal article | 2019
  • Tran T, Kavuluru R
  • Distant supervision for treatment relation extraction by leveraging MeSH subheadings
  • Artificial intelligence in medicine

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• • journal article | 2019
  • Rios A, Kavuluru R
  • Neural transfer learning for assigning diagnosis codes to EMRs
  • Artificial intelligence in medicine

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    • journal article | 2019
    • Hinderer EW, Flight RM, Dubey R, MacLeod JN, Moseley HNB
    • Advances in gene ontology utilization improve statistical power of annotation enrichment
    • PloS one

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• • journal article | 2019
  • Nagarajan R, Talbert J
    Network Abstractions of Prescription Patterns in a Medicaid Population
  • AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science

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  • journal article | 2017
  • Licong Cui, Wei Zhu, Shiqiang Tao, James T Case, Olivier Bodenreider, GQ Zhang
  • Mining non-lattice subgraphs for detecting missing hierarchical relations and concepts in SNOMED CT
  • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association