Ricky K. Taira

According to our database, Ricky K. Taira authored at least 64 papers between 1992 and 2022.

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2022

Design considerations for a hierarchical semantic compositional framework for medical natural language understanding.

Ricky K. Taira, Anders O. Garlid, William Speier

CoRR, 2022

2018

Evaluating Casama: Contextualized semantic maps for summarization of lung cancer studies.

Jean I. Garcia-Gathright, Nicholas J. Matiasz, Carlos Adame, Karthik V. Sarma, Lauren Sauer, Nova F. Smedley, Marshall L. Spiegel, Jennifer Strunck, Edward B. Garon, Ricky K. Taira, Denise R. Aberle, Alex A. T. Bui

Comput. Biol. Medicine, 2018

Lexically Grounded Ontologic Frames for Medical NLP.

Ricky K. Taira, Omolola Ogunyemi, Hyeoneui Kim

Proceedings of the AMIA 2018, 2018

2017

A Usability Study to Evaluate the Impact of a Novel Automated Brain Tumor Assessment Application.

Edgar A. Rios Piedra, Iren Orosz, Mary Zide, Suzie M. El-Saden, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui, William Hsu

Proceedings of the AMIA 2017, 2017

2016

Automatic Classification of Ultrasound Screening Examinations of the Abdominal Aorta.

Craig A. Morioka, Frank Meng, Ricky K. Taira, James W. Sayre, Peter Zimmerman, David Ishimitsu, Jimmy Huang, Luyao Shen, Suzie El-Saden

J. Digit. Imaging, 2016

Brain Tumor Segmentation by Variability Characterization of Tumor Boundaries.

Edgar A. Rios Piedra, Benjamin M. Ellingson, Ricky K. Taira, Suzie El-Saden, Alex A. T. Bui, William Hsu

Proceedings of the Brainlesion: Glioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries, 2016

Assessing variability in brain tumor segmentation to improve volumetric accuracy and characterization of change.

Edgar A. Rios Piedra, Ricky K. Taira, Suzie El-Saden, Benjamin M. Ellingson, Alex A. T. Bui, William Hsu

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2016

Toward patient-tailored summarization of lung cancer literature.

Jean I. Garcia-Gathright, Nicholas J. Matiasz, Edward B. Garon, Denise R. Aberle, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2016

Evaluating a Novel Summary Visualization for Clinical Trial Reports: A Usability Study.

Maurine Tong, William Hsu, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the AMIA 2016, 2016

2013

Perspective: Imaging-based observational databases for clinical problem solving: the role of informatics.

Alex A. T. Bui, William Hsu, Corey W. Arnold, Suzie El-Saden, Denise R. Aberle, Ricky K. Taira

J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2013

Research and applications: Imaging informatics for consumer health: towards a radiology patient portal.

Corey W. Arnold, Mary McNamara, Suzie El-Saden, Shawn Chen, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui

J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2013

A Formal Representation for Numerical Data Presented in Published Clinical Trial Reports.

Maurine Tong, William Hsu, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2013, 2013

Hierarchical Semantic Structures for Medical NLP.

Ricky K. Taira, Corey W. Arnold

Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2013, 2013

2012

Context-Based Electronic Health Record: Toward Patient Specific Healthcare.

William Hsu, Ricky K. Taira, Suzie El-Saden, Hooshang Kangarloo, Alex A. T. Bui

IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed., 2012

Improving the accuracy of therapy descriptions in clinical trials using a bottom-up approach.

Maurine Tong, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the AMIA 2012, 2012

Automated Extraction of Reported Statistical Analyses: Towards a Logical Representation of Clinical Trial Literature.

William Hsu, William Speier, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the AMIA 2012, 2012

2011

A Case-Based Retrieval System Using Natural Language Processing and Population-Based Visualization.

William Hsu, Ricky K. Taira, Fernando Viñuela, Alex A. T. Bui

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, 2011

2010

A neuro-oncology workstation for structuring, modeling, and visualizing patient records.

William Hsu, Corey W. Arnold, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, 2010

2009

Incorporating Syntactic Dependency Information towards Improved Coding of Lengthy Medical Concepts in Clinical Reports.

Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the BioNLP Workshop, BioNLP@HLT-NAACL 2009, 2009

2008

Context-Sensitive Correlation of Implicitly Related Data: An Episode Creation Methodology.

Roderick Y. Son, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo, Alfonso F. Cardenas

IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed., 2008

A Tool for Improving the Longitudinal Imaging Characterization for Neuro-Oncology Cases.

Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui, William Hsu, Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Shishir Dube, Emily Watt, Lewellyn P. Andrada, Suzie El-Saden, Timothy F. Cloughesy, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the AMIA 2008, 2008

2007

A Field Theoretical Approach to Medical Natural Language Processing.

Ricky K. Taira, Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Hooshang Kangarloo

IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed., 2007

openSourcePACS: An Extensible Infrastructure for Medical Image Management.

Alex A. T. Bui, Craig A. Morioka, John D. N. Dionisio, David B. Johnson, Usha Sinha, Siamak Ardekani, Ricky K. Taira, Denise R. Aberle, Suzie El-Saden, Hooshang Kangarloo

IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed., 2007

A Normalized Lexical Lookup Approach to Identifying UMLS Concepts in Free Text.

Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Guy Divita, David B. Bennett, Allen C. Browne, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2007 - Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics, 2007

Identifying Anatomical Phrases in Clinical Reports by Shallow Semantic Parsing Methods.

Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, 2007

2005

Automatic generation of repeated patient information for tailoring clinical notes.

Frank Meng, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui, Hooshang Kangarloo, Bernard M. Churchill

Int. J. Medical Informatics, 2005

Generating Models of Surgical Procedures using UMLS Concepts and Multiple Sequence Alignment.

Frank Meng, Leonard W. D'Avolio, Andrew A. Chen, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the AMIA 2005, 2005

Syntactic Parsing of Medical Reports Using Evolutionary Optimization.

Paul S. Cho, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the AMIA 2005, 2005

A Study Of Lexical Behavior Of Sentences In Chest Radiology Reports.

Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the AMIA 2005, 2005

Indexing Anatomical Phrases in Neuro-Radiology Reports to the UMLS 2005AA.

Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the AMIA 2005, 2005

2004

Towards Semantics-Based Intra-Document Coreference Resolution.

Roderick Y. Son, Frank Meng, Andrew A. Chen, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Scienes, 2004

Information Extraction Using Semantic Patterns for Populating Clinical Data Models.

Frank Meng, Andrew A. Chen, Roderick Y. Son, Ricky K. Taira, Bernard M. Churchill, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Scienes, 2004

Framework for the Automated Validation of Nomograms for the Prediction of Cancer Outcomes.

Andrew A. Chen, Frank Meng, Roderick Y. Son, Ricky K. Taira, Bernard M. Churchill, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Scienes, 2004

Inter-document Coreference Resolution of Abnormal Findings in Radiology Documents.

Roderick Y. Son, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2004, 2004

Automated Medical Problem List Generation: Towards a Patient TimeLine.

Alex A. T. Bui, Ricky K. Taira, Suzie El-Saden, Alicia Dordoni, Denise R. Aberle

Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2004, 2004

2003

Automatic Section Segmentation of Medical Reports.

Paul S. Cho, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the AMIA 2003, 2003

2002

Identification of patient name references within medical documents using semantic selectional restrictions.

Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the AMIA 2002, 2002

A context-sensitive methodology for automatic episode creation.

Roderick Y. Son, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui, Hooshang Kangarloo, Alfonso F. Cardenas

Proceedings of the AMIA 2002, 2002

Text Boundary Detection of Medical Reports.

Paul S. Cho, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the AMIA 2002, 2002

2001

Structure localization in brain images: application to relevant image selection.

Usha Sinha, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the AMIA 2001, 2001

2000

Evaluation of SNOMED3.5 in representing concepts in chest radiology reports: integration of a SNOMED mapper with a radiology reporting workstation.

Usha Sinha, A. Yaghmai, L. Thompson, Benjamin Y. Dai, Ricky K. Taira, John D. N. Dionisio, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the AMIA 2000, 2000

Requirements of a Web-based experiment management system.

Rex M. Jakobovits, Stephen Soderland, Ricky K. Taira, James F. Brinkley

Proceedings of the AMIA 2000, 2000

1999

A statistical natural language processor for medical reports.

Ricky K. Taira, Stephen Soderland

Proceedings of the AMIA 1999, 1999

Process models for telehealth: an industrial approach to quality management of distant medical practice.

Hooshang Kangarloo, John David N. Dionisio, Usha Sinha, David B. Johnson, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the AMIA 1999, 1999

Creating and indexing teaching files from free-text patient reports.

David B. Johnson, Wesley W. Chu, John D. N. Dionisio, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the AMIA 1999, 1999

Initial experiences with building a health care infrastructure based on Java and object-oriented database technology.

John David N. Dionisio, Usha Sinha, Benjamin Y. Dai, David B. Johnson, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the AMIA 1999, 1999

Individually Tailored Time Management: Patient-Centric Scheduling.

Benjamin Y. Dai, Usha S. Sinha, John D. N. Dionisio, Gregory H. Tashima, Richard Johnson, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo

Proceedings of the AMIA 1999, 1999

1998

Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval with Spatial and Temporal Constructs.

Wesley W. Chu, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira

IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 1998

Content-Based Image Retrieval using Metadata and Relaxation Techniques.

Wesley W. Chu, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Ion Tim Ieong, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the Multimedia Data Management: Using Metadata to Integrate and Apply Digital Media, 1998

1997

Extracting Information from Free Text Radiology Reports.

David B. Johnson, Ricky K. Taira, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Denise R. Aberle

Int. J. Digit. Libr., 1997

A multimedia database system for thermal ablation therapy of brain tumors.

John David N. Dionisio, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Robert B. Lufkin, Antonio DeSalles, Keith L. Black, Ricky K. Taira, Wesley W. Chu

J. Digit. Imaging, 1997

Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval with Spatial and Temporal Constructs.

Wesley W. Chu, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira

Proceedings of the Foundations of Intelligent Systems, 10th International Symposium, 1997

1996

A Knowledge-Based Approach for Retrieving Images by Content.

Chih-Cheng Hsu, Wesley W. Chu, Ricky K. Taira

IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 1996

A concept-based retrieval system for thoracic radiology.

Ricky K. Taira, David B. Johnson, Vikas Bhushan, Monica Rivera, Clement Wong, Lujia Huang, Denise R. Aberle, Melanie Greaves, Jonathan G. Goldin

J. Digit. Imaging, 1996

Architectural design and tools to support the transparent access to hospital information systems, radiology information systems, and picture archiving and communication systems.

Ricky K. Taira, Claudine M. Breant, Hing M. Chan, Lujia Huang, Daniel J. Valentino

J. Digit. Imaging, 1996

1995

Data clustering and other archive retrieval strategies for teleradiology and picture archiving and communication systems.

Bruce Ho, Woodrew Chao, Reza Sadri, Lu Huang, Ricky K. Taira, Henry Shih

J. Digit. Imaging, 1995

KMeD: a Knowledge-based Multimedia Medical Distributed Database System.

Wesley W. Chu, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira

Inf. Syst., 1995

1994

A Semantic Modeling Approach for Image Retrieval by Content

Wesley W. Chu, Ion Tim Ieong, Ricky K. Taira

VLDB J., 1994

1993

The Knowledge-Based Object-Oriented PICQUERY+ Language.

Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ion Tim Ieong, Ricky K. Taira, Roger Barker, Claudine M. Breant

IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 1993

An automatic method for enhancing the display of different tissue densities in digital chest radiographs.

Michael F. McNitt-Gray, Ricky K. Taira, Sandy L. Johnson, Mahmood Razavi

J. Digit. Imaging, 1993

Interfacing aspects between the picture archiving communications systems, radiology information systems, and hospital information systems.

Claudine M. Breant, Ricky K. Taira, H. K. Huang

J. Digit. Imaging, 1993

Integration and Interoperability of a Multimedia Medical Distributed Datbase System.

Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira, Wesley W. Chu, Claudine M. Breant

IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 1993

1992

A Temporal Evolutionary Object-Oriented Data Model and Its Query Language for Medical Image Management.

Wesley W. Chu, Ion Tim Ieong, Ricky K. Taira, Claudine M. Breant

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 1992

A temporal evolutionary object-oriented data model for medical image management.

Wesley W. Chu, Ion Tim Ieong, Ricky K. Taira, Claudine M. Breant

Proceedings of the Fifth Annual IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'92), 1992