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Amin, W., A.V. Parwani, L. Schmandt, S.K. Mohanty, G. Farhat, A.K. Pople, S.B. Winters, N.B. Whelan, A.M. Schneider, J.T. Milnes, F.A. Valdivieso, M. Feldman, H.I. Pass, R. Dhir, J. Melamed, and M.J. Becich. "National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank: a Standard Based Biospecimen and Clinical Data Resource to Enhance Translational Research." BMC Cancer 8 (2008): 236.

Bain, K.T., H.M. Holmes, M.H. Beers, V. Maio, S.M. Handler, and S.G. Pauker. "Discontinuing Medications: A Novel Approach for Revising the Prescribing Stage of the Medication-Use Process." J Am Geriatr Soc (2008).

Chapman, B.E., E.S. Minalga, C. Brown, J.A. Roberts, and J.R. Hadley. "Reducing Morphological Variability of the Cervical Carotid Artery in Serial Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using a Head and Neck Immobilization device."
J Magn Reson Imaging 28, no. 1 (2008): 258-62.

Dara, J., J.N. Dowling, D. Travers, G.F. Cooper, and W.W. Chapman. "Evaluation of Preprocessing Techniques for Chief Complaint Classification." J Biomed Inform 41, no. 4 (2008): 613-23.

Grover, H., Lustgarten, J., Visweswaran, S., Gopalakrishnan, V. "Improving Peptide Identification via Validation with Intensity-based Modeling of Tandem Mass Spectra." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08). (2008).pp. 56-63.

Handler, S.M., J.T. Hanlon, S. Perera, Y.F. Roumani, D.A. Nace, D.B. Fridsma, M.I. Saul, N.G. Castle, and S.A. StudenskI. "Consensus list of Signals to detect Potential adverse drug reactions in nursing Homes." J Am Geriatr Soc 56, no. 5 (2008): 808-15.

Handler, S.M., B.H. Shirts, S. Perera, M.J. Becich, N.G. Castle, and J.T. Hanlon. "Frequency of Laboratory Monitoring of Chronic Medications Administered to Nursing Facility Residents: Results of a National Internet-Based Study." Consult Pharm 23, no. 5 (2008): 387-95.

Hanlon, J.T., S. Aspinall, S.M. Handler, M. Rossi, L.F. Fried, S. Weisbord, C.B. Good, M. Fine, R. Stone, M. Pugh and T.P. Semla. "Consensus guidelines for dosing primarily renally cleared medications in older outpatients." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2008;56(4):S190-S190.

Jiang, X., G. Wallstrom, G.F. Cooper, and M.M. Wagner. "Bayesian Prediction of an Epidemic Curve." J Biomed Inform (2008).

Jordan, R., S. Patel, H. Hu, and J. Lyons-Weiler. "Efficiency Analysis of Competing Tests for Finding Differentially Expressed Genes in Lung Adenocarcinoma." Cancer Informatics. 2008, 6, 389-421.

Kundel, H.l., C.F. Nodine, E.A. Krupinski, and C. Mello-Thoms. "Using Gaze-tracking data and mixture distribution analysis to Support a Holistic model for the detection of Cancers on mammograms." Acad Radiol 15, no. 7 (2008): 881-6.

Lustgarten, J.L., Grover, H., Visweswaran, S., Gopalakrishnan, V. "An Evaluation of Discretization Methods for Learning Rules from Biomedical Datasets." In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BiOCOmP'08). (2008). editors Hamid R. arabnia, mary Qu Yang, Jack Y. Yang. pp. 527-532.

Mohanty, S.K., A.T. Mistry, W. Amin, A.V. Parwani, A.K. Pople, L. Schmandt, S.B. Winters, E. Milliken, P. Kim, N.B. Whelan, G. Farhat, J. Melamed, E. Taioli, R. Dhir, H.L. Pass, and M.J. Becich. "The Development and Deployment of Common Data Elements for Tissue Banks for Translational Research in Cancer - an Emerging Standard Based Approach for the mesothelioma Virtual Tissue Bank." BMC Cancer 8 (2008): 91.

Monzon, F.A., J.M. Hagenkord, M.A. Lyons-Weiler, J.P. Balani, A.V. Parwani, C.M. Sciulli, J. Li, U.R. Chandran, S.I. Bastacky, and R. Dhir. "Whole Genome Snp Arrays as a Potential Diagnostic Tool for the Detection of Characteristic Chromosomal Aberrations in Renal Epithelial Tumors." Mod Pathol 21, no. 5 (2008): 599-608.

Piwowar, H.A., M. J. Becich, H. Bilofsky, and R.S. Crowley. "Towards a Data Sharing Culture: Recommendations for Leadership from Academic Health Centers." PLoS Med 5, no. 9 (2008): e183.

Scotch, M., B. Parmanto, and V. Monaco. "Evaluation of Sovat: an Olap-Gis Decision Support System for Community Health Assessment Data Analysis." BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 8 (2008): 22.

Shen, Y., C. Adamou, J.N. Dowling, and G.F. Cooper. "Estimating the Joint Disease Outbreak-Detection Time When an Automated Biosurveillance System is Augmenting traditional Clinical Case Finding." J Biomed Inform 41, no. 2 (2008): 224-31.

Wallstrom, G., J. Liebner and R.E. Kass. "An Implementation of Bayesian adaptive regression splines (BarS) in C with S and R wrappers." Journal of Statistical Software 2008:26(1).

Wilson, R.R., Silowash, R., Anthony, L., Cecil, R.A. and Eller, Andrew. "Telemedicine Process Used to Implement an Effective and Functional Screening Program for Diabetic Retinopathy." Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology 2:5, 785-791.

Yudelson, M.V., O.P. Medvedeva and R.S. Crowley.
"A multifactor approach to student model evaluation."
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 2008;18(4):349-382

Zheng, B., C. Mello-Thoms, X.H. Wang, G.S. Abrams,
J. H.Sumkin, D.M. Chough, M.A. Ganott, A. Ku, and D. Gur. "Interactive Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Masses: Computerized Selection of Visually Similar Image Sets from a Reference Library." Acad Radiol 14, no. 8 (2007): 917-27.