Ricky K. Taira

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1992-2024
Publications (10 Years): 10

Top Topics

Automated Detection

Brain Tumor Segmentation

Language Understanding

Top Venues

Comput. Biol. Medicine

Publications

Hyeoneui Kim, Hyewon Park, Sunghoon Kang, Jinsol Kim, Jeongha Kim, Jinsun Jung, Ricky K. Taira
Evaluating the validity of the nursing statements algorithmically generated based on the International Classifications of Nursing Practice for respiratory nursing care using large language models. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 31 (6) (2024)
Ricky K. Taira, Anders O. Garlid, William Speier
Design considerations for a hierarchical semantic compositional framework for medical natural language understanding. CoRR (2022)
Ricky K. Taira, Omolola Ogunyemi, Hyeoneui Kim
Lexically Grounded Ontologic Frames for Medical NLP. AMIA (2018)
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
Evaluating Casama: Contextualized semantic maps for summarization of lung cancer studies. Comput. Biol. Medicine 92 (2018)
Edgar A. Rios Piedra, Iren Orosz, Mary Zide, Suzie M. El-Saden, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui, William Hsu
A Usability Study to Evaluate the Impact of a Novel Automated Brain Tumor Assessment Application. AMIA (2017)
Jean I. Garcia-Gathright, Nicholas J. Matiasz, Edward B. Garon, Denise R. Aberle, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui
Toward patient-tailored summarization of lung cancer literature. BHI (2016)
Edgar A. Rios Piedra, Ricky K. Taira, Suzie El-Saden, Benjamin M. Ellingson, Alex A. T. Bui, William Hsu
Assessing variability in brain tumor segmentation to improve volumetric accuracy and characterization of change. BHI (2016)
Maurine Tong, William Hsu, Ricky K. Taira
Evaluating a Novel Summary Visualization for Clinical Trial Reports: A Usability Study. AMIA (2016)
Craig A. Morioka, Frank Meng, Ricky K. Taira, James W. Sayre, Peter Zimmerman, David Ishimitsu, Jimmy Huang, Luyao Shen, Suzie El-Saden
Automatic Classification of Ultrasound Screening Examinations of the Abdominal Aorta. J. Digit. Imaging 29 (6) (2016)
Edgar A. Rios Piedra, Benjamin M. Ellingson, Ricky K. Taira, Suzie El-Saden, Alex A. T. Bui, William Hsu
Brain Tumor Segmentation by Variability Characterization of Tumor Boundaries. BrainLes@MICCAI (2016)
Maurine Tong, William Hsu, Ricky K. Taira
A Formal Representation for Numerical Data Presented in Published Clinical Trial Reports. MedInfo (2013)
Alex A. T. Bui, William Hsu, Corey W. Arnold, Suzie El-Saden, Denise R. Aberle, Ricky K. Taira
Perspective: Imaging-based observational databases for clinical problem solving: the role of informatics. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 20 (6) (2013)
Ricky K. Taira, Corey W. Arnold
Hierarchical Semantic Structures for Medical NLP. MedInfo (2013)
Corey W. Arnold, Mary McNamara, Suzie El-Saden, Shawn Chen, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui
Research and applications: Imaging informatics for consumer health: towards a radiology patient portal. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 20 (6) (2013)
William Hsu, Ricky K. Taira, Suzie El-Saden, Hooshang Kangarloo, Alex A. T. Bui
Context-Based Electronic Health Record: Toward Patient Specific Healthcare. IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed. 16 (2) (2012)
William Hsu, William Speier, Ricky K. Taira
Automated Extraction of Reported Statistical Analyses: Towards a Logical Representation of Clinical Trial Literature. AMIA (2012)
Maurine Tong, Ricky K. Taira
Improving the accuracy of therapy descriptions in clinical trials using a bottom-up approach. AMIA (2012)
William Hsu, Ricky K. Taira, Fernando Viñuela, Alex A. T. Bui
A Case-Based Retrieval System Using Natural Language Processing and Population-Based Visualization. HISB (2011)
William Hsu, Corey W. Arnold, Ricky K. Taira
A neuro-oncology workstation for structuring, modeling, and visualizing patient records. IHI (2010)
Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Ricky K. Taira
Incorporating Syntactic Dependency Information towards Improved Coding of Lengthy Medical Concepts in Clinical Reports. BioNLP@HLT-NAACL (2009)
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
A Tool for Improving the Longitudinal Imaging Characterization for Neuro-Oncology Cases. AMIA (2008)
Roderick Y. Son, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo, Alfonso F. Cardenas
Context-Sensitive Correlation of Implicitly Related Data: An Episode Creation Methodology. IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed. 12 (5) (2008)
Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Ricky K. Taira
Identifying Anatomical Phrases in Clinical Reports by Shallow Semantic Parsing Methods. CIDM (2007)
Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Guy Divita, David B. Bennett, Allen C. Browne, Ricky K. Taira
A Normalized Lexical Lookup Approach to Identifying UMLS Concepts in Free Text. MedInfo (2007)
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
openSourcePACS: An Extensible Infrastructure for Medical Image Management. IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed. 11 (1) (2007)
Ricky K. Taira, Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Hooshang Kangarloo
A Field Theoretical Approach to Medical Natural Language Processing. IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed. 11 (4) (2007)
Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Ricky K. Taira
Indexing Anatomical Phrases in Neuro-Radiology Reports to the UMLS 2005AA. AMIA (2005)
Frank Meng, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui, Hooshang Kangarloo, Bernard M. Churchill
Automatic generation of repeated patient information for tailoring clinical notes. Int. J. Medical Informatics 74 (7-8) (2005)
Paul S. Cho, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo
Syntactic Parsing of Medical Reports Using Evolutionary Optimization. AMIA (2005)
Vijayaraghavan Bashyam, Ricky K. Taira
A Study Of Lexical Behavior Of Sentences In Chest Radiology Reports. AMIA (2005)
Frank Meng, Leonard W. D'Avolio, Andrew A. Chen, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo
Generating Models of Surgical Procedures using UMLS Concepts and Multiple Sequence Alignment. AMIA (2005)
Roderick Y. Son, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo
Inter-document Coreference Resolution of Abnormal Findings in Radiology Documents. MedInfo (2004)
Roderick Y. Son, Frank Meng, Andrew A. Chen, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo
Towards Semantics-Based Intra-Document Coreference Resolution. METMBS (2004)
Frank Meng, Andrew A. Chen, Roderick Y. Son, Ricky K. Taira, Bernard M. Churchill, Hooshang Kangarloo
Information Extraction Using Semantic Patterns for Populating Clinical Data Models. METMBS (2004)
Andrew A. Chen, Frank Meng, Roderick Y. Son, Ricky K. Taira, Bernard M. Churchill, Hooshang Kangarloo
Framework for the Automated Validation of Nomograms for the Prediction of Cancer Outcomes. METMBS (2004)
Alex A. T. Bui, Ricky K. Taira, Suzie El-Saden, Alicia Dordoni, Denise R. Aberle
Automated Medical Problem List Generation: Towards a Patient TimeLine. MedInfo (2004)
Frank Meng, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui, Hooshang Kangarloo, Bernard M. Churchill
Automatic Generation of Repeated Patient Information for Tailoring Clinical Notes. MedInfo (2004)
Paul S. Cho, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo
Automatic Section Segmentation of Medical Reports. AMIA (2003)
Roderick Y. Son, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui, Hooshang Kangarloo, Alfonso F. Cardenas
A context-sensitive methodology for automatic episode creation. AMIA (2002)
Paul S. Cho, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo
Text Boundary Detection of Medical Reports. AMIA (2002)
Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui, Hooshang Kangarloo
Identification of patient name references within medical documents using semantic selectional restrictions. AMIA (2002)
Usha Sinha, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo
Structure localization in brain images: application to relevant image selection. AMIA (2001)
Rex M. Jakobovits, Stephen Soderland, Ricky K. Taira, James F. Brinkley
Requirements of a Web-based experiment management system. AMIA (2000)
Usha Sinha, A. Yaghmai, L. Thompson, Benjamin Y. Dai, Ricky K. Taira, John D. N. Dionisio, Hooshang Kangarloo
Evaluation of SNOMED3.5 in representing concepts in chest radiology reports: integration of a SNOMED mapper with a radiology reporting workstation. AMIA (2000)
Benjamin Y. Dai, Usha S. Sinha, John D. N. Dionisio, Gregory H. Tashima, Richard Johnson, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo
Individually Tailored Time Management: Patient-Centric Scheduling. AMIA (1999)
Ricky K. Taira, Stephen Soderland
A statistical natural language processor for medical reports. AMIA (1999)
David B. Johnson, Wesley W. Chu, John D. N. Dionisio, Ricky K. Taira, Hooshang Kangarloo
Creating and indexing teaching files from free-text patient reports. AMIA (1999)
John David N. Dionisio, Usha Sinha, Benjamin Y. Dai, David B. Johnson, Ricky K. Taira
Initial experiences with building a health care infrastructure based on Java and object-oriented database technology. AMIA (1999)
Hooshang Kangarloo, John David N. Dionisio, Usha Sinha, David B. Johnson, Ricky K. Taira
Process models for telehealth: an industrial approach to quality management of distant medical practice. AMIA (1999)
Wesley W. Chu, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira
Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval with Spatial and Temporal Constructs. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 10 (6) (1998)
John David N. Dionisio, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Robert B. Lufkin, Antonio DeSalles, Keith L. Black, Ricky K. Taira, Wesley W. Chu
A multimedia database system for thermal ablation therapy of brain tumors. J. Digit. Imaging 10 (1) (1997)
Wesley W. Chu, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira
Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval with Spatial and Temporal Constructs. ISMIS (1997)
David B. Johnson, Ricky K. Taira, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Denise R. Aberle
Extracting Information from Free Text Radiology Reports. Int. J. Digit. Libr. 1 (3) (1997)
Chih-Cheng Hsu, Wesley W. Chu, Ricky K. Taira
A Knowledge-Based Approach for Retrieving Images by Content. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 8 (4) (1996)
Ricky K. Taira, David B. Johnson, Vikas Bhushan, Monica Rivera, Clement Wong, Lujia Huang, Denise R. Aberle, Melanie Greaves, Jonathan G. Goldin
A concept-based retrieval system for thoracic radiology. J. Digit. Imaging 9 (1) (1996)
Ricky K. Taira, Claudine M. Breant, Hing M. Chan, Lujia Huang, Daniel J. Valentino
Architectural design and tools to support the transparent access to hospital information systems, radiology information systems, and picture archiving and communication systems. J. Digit. Imaging 9 (1) (1996)
Wesley W. Chu, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira
KMeD: a Knowledge-based Multimedia Medical Distributed Database System. Inf. Syst. 20 (2) (1995)
Bruce Ho, Woodrew Chao, Reza Sadri, Lu Huang, Ricky K. Taira, Henry Shih
Data clustering and other archive retrieval strategies for teleradiology and picture archiving and communication systems. J. Digit. Imaging 8 (4) (1995)
Wesley W. Chu, Ion Tim Ieong, Ricky K. Taira
A Semantic Modeling Approach for Image Retrieval by Content VLDB J. 3 (4) (1994)
Michael F. McNitt-Gray, Ricky K. Taira, Sandy L. Johnson, Mahmood Razavi
An automatic method for enhancing the display of different tissue densities in digital chest radiographs. J. Digit. Imaging 6 (2) (1993)
Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ion Tim Ieong, Ricky K. Taira, Roger Barker, Claudine M. Breant
The Knowledge-Based Object-Oriented PICQUERY+ Language. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 5 (4) (1993)
Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira, Wesley W. Chu, Claudine M. Breant
Integration and Interoperability of a Multimedia Medical Distributed Datbase System. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 16 (1) (1993)
Claudine M. Breant, Ricky K. Taira, H. K. Huang
Interfacing aspects between the picture archiving communications systems, radiology information systems, and hospital information systems. J. Digit. Imaging 6 (2) (1993)
Wesley W. Chu, Ion Tim Ieong, Ricky K. Taira, Claudine M. Breant
A Temporal Evolutionary Object-Oriented Data Model and Its Query Language for Medical Image Management. VLDB (1992)
Wesley W. Chu, Ion Tim Ieong, Ricky K. Taira, Claudine M. Breant
A temporal evolutionary object-oriented data model for medical image management. CBMS (1992)