Huanying (Helen) Gu's Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

• H. Gu, Y. Perl, G. Elhanan, H. Min, L. Zhang, Y. Peng. Auditing Concept Categorizations in the UMLS. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. (31) 1, pages 29-44, May 2004.



• H. Gu, Y. Perl, M. Halper, J. Geller, and E. J. Neuhold. Contextual Partitioning for Comprehension of OODB Schemas. Knowledge & Information Systems (KAIS). (6)3, pages 315-344, May 2004.



• J. Geller, H. Gu, Y. Perl, and M. Halper. Semantic Refinement and Error Correction in Large Terminological Knowledge Bases. Data & Knowledge Engineering, (45)1, pages 1-32, April 2003.



• Z. Chen, Y. Perl, M. Halper, J. Geller, and H. Gu. Partitioning the UMLS Semantic Network. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, (6)2, pages 102-108, June 2002.



• J. Geller, Y. Perl, M. Halper, Z. Chen, and H. Gu. Evaluation and Application of a Semantic Network Partition. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, (6)2, pages 109-115, June 2002.



• H. Gu, Y. Perl, M. Halper, J. Geller, F. Kuo, and J. J. Cimino. Partitioning an Object-Oriented Terminology Schema. Methods of Information in Medicine, 40(3), pages 204-212, 2001.



• H. Gu, Y. Perl, J. Geller, M. Halper, L. Liu, and J. J. Cimino. Representing the UMLS as an object-oriented database: Modeling issues and advantages. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), (7)1, pages 66-80, January/February 2000. Selected for reprint in Haux R, Kulikowski C, eds.: Yearbook of Medical Informatics, International Medical Informatics Association, Rotterdam, 2001: 271-285.



• H. Gu, M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Benefits of an object-oriented database representation for controlled medical terminologies. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), (6)4, pages 283-303, July/August 1999.



• H. Gu, Y. Perl, J. Geller, M. Halper, and M. Singh. A methodalogy for partitioning a vocabulary hierarchy into trees. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, (15)1, pages 77-98, January 1999.

Published Refereed Conference Papers

• H. Gu, Y. Li, and S. Haque. Discoving Inconsistencies in UWDA - a UMLS Source Vocabulary. In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'03), pages 300-304, Las Vegas, NV, June 2003.



• H. Gu, H. Min, Y. Peng, L. Zhang, and Y. Perl. Using the metaschema to audit UMLS classification errors. In Proceedings of the 2002 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, pages 310-314, San Antonio, TX, November 2002.



• H. Gu, Y. Perl, M. Halper, J. Geller, F. Kuo, and J. J. Cimino. Extracting a partition from a complex schema of a medical terminology. In Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB '00), pages 262-267, Arlington, VA, November 2000.



• Z. Chen, H. Gu, M. Halper, J. Geller and Y. Perl. Meta-Schema of the UMLS Semantic Network. In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'00), pages 755-761, Las Vegas, NV, June 2000.



• H. Gu,Y. Perl, J. Geller, M. Halper, L. Liu, and J. J. Cimino. Modeling the UMLS using an OODB. In N. M. Lorenzi, editor, Proceedings of the 1999 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, pages 82-86, Washington, DC, November 1999.



• H. Gu, J. Geller, L. Liu, and M. Halper. Using a similarity measurement to partition a vocabulary of medical concepts. In T. Bench-Capon, G. Soda, and A. M. Tjoa, editors, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications: DEXA'99, Florence, Italy, August 1999. Published as: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1677, Springer-Verlag, New York, pages 712-723.



• H. Gu, L. Liu, M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Converting an integrated hospital formulary into an object-oriented database representation. In C. G. Chute, editor, Proceedings of the 1998 Amer/can Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, pages 770-774, Orlando, FL, November 1998.



• H. Gu, Y. Perl, J. Geller, M. Halper, J. J. Cimino, and M. Singh. Partitioning a vocabulary's IS-A hierarchy into trees. In D. R. Masys, editor, Proceedings of the 1997 American Medi/al Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Fall Symposium, pages 630-634, Nashville, TN, October 1997.



• L. Liu, M. Halper, H. Gu, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Modeling a vocabulary in an object-oriented database. In K. Barker International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 179-188, Rockville, MD, November 1996.



• H. Gu, J. J. Cimino, M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Utilizing OODB schema modeling for vocabulary management. In J. J. Cimino, editor, Proceedings of the 1996 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Fall Symposium, pages 274-278, Washington, DC, October 1996.



• M. Halper, H. Gu, J. J. Cimino, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Comprehending the structure of a medical vocabulary using object-oriented database modeling. OOPSLA'96 Workshop on Object-Oriented Technology for Health Care and Medical Information Systems, San Jose, CA, October 1996. Position Paper.



• Y. Perl, J. Geller, and H. Gu. Identify a Forest Hierarchy in an OODB specialization Hierarchy Satisfying Disciplined Modeling. Proceedings of the First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems CoopIS'96 , pages 182-195, Brussele, Belgium, June 1996.

Other Document

• Developing Techniques for Enhancing Comprehensibility of Controlled Medical Terminologies . Ph.D. Dissertation, NJIT, 1999.

Invited Presentation

• Utilizing OODB schema modeling for vocabulary management. Columbia University Medical Informatics Seminar, September 1996: