AI for Health

Research and collaborations contributing to the Microsoft AI for Health program

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- Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Multiple-Choice Questions for Ophthalmology Education
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Daniel B. Mummert, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Karine D. Bojikian
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | October 2025
  
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- Bridging Gaps in Ophthalmology Education Through Large Language Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Daniel B. Mummert , Joseph Carr, Robert R. McNabb, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Dale E. Fajardo
  
  AJO International | August 2025
  
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- Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study
  
  Md Nasir, Yixi Xu, Kyle Hasenstab, Alekhya Yechoor, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Guilherme Moura Cunha
  
  PloS One | August 2025
  
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- SynthCraft: an AI partner for synthetic data generation to support data access and augmentation in healthcare
  
  Thomas Callender, Anders Boyd, Robert Davis, Silas Ruhrberg Estevez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Mihaela van der Schaar
  
  August 2025
  
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- Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality
  
  Yixi Xu, Al-Rahim Habib, Graeme Crossland, Hemi Patel, Chris Perry, Kris Bock, Tony Lian, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Narinder Pal Singh
  
  July 2025
  
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- Cancer Detection in Breast MRI Screening via Explainable AI Anomaly Detection
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Anum S. Kazerouni, Philipp Liznerski, Yixi Xu, Michael Hirano, Robert A. Vandermeulen, Marius Kloft, Elyse Blum, Adam M. Alessio, Christopher I. Li, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Habib Rahbar, Savannah C. Partridge
  
  Radiology | July 2025
  
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- COVID-19 Pandemic-Era Changes in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | May 2025
  
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- Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of Small Metastatic Prostate Cancer Lesions on 3D PSMA PET Volumes Using Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections
  
  Amirhosein Toosi, Sara Harsini, Ghasemali Divband, François Bénard, Carlos F. Uribe, Felipe Oviedo, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Cancers | May 2025
  
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- AI-Enabled Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings
  
  Anthony Ortiz, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Susana Patiño, Jehú Torres, Juan Mármol, Carlos Serafin, Rahul Dodhia, Gabriela Saidman, Vanina Schbib, Brenda Peña, Guillermo Monteoliva, María Ana Martinez-Castellanos
  
  JAMA Network Open | April 2025
  
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- Rapid and accurate prediction of protein homo-oligomer symmetry using Seq2Symm
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Artur Meller, Ian R. Humphreys, Samuel Sledzieski, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Eric Horvitz, Bonnie Berger, Gregory R. Bowman, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, David Baker, Minkyung Baek
  
  Nature Communications | February 2025
  
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- Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019
  
  Shaddy K. Saba, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  International Journal of Public Health | February 2025
  
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- AI in the Era of GPT: Transforming the Future of Work and Discovery
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu, Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, Charles K Crawford, Steven P Rowe
  
  Journal of the American College of Radiology | February 2025
  
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- Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
  
  Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
  
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- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
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- Efficacy of a conversational chatbot for cigarette smoking cessation: Protocol of the QuitBot full-scale randomized controlled trial
  
  Jonathan B Bricker, Brianna M Sullivan, Kristin E Mull, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Margarita Santiago-Torres
  
  Contemporary Clinical Trials | December 2024
  
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- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
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- Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
  
  Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  BMJ Public Health | September 2024
  
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- Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
  
  Pancreatology | September 2024
  
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- A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
  
  Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
  
  International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
  
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- Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
  
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- Democratizing Protein Language Models with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
  
  Samuel Sledzieski, Meghana Kshirsagar, Minkyung Baek, Bonnie Berger, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  PNAS | June 2024
  
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- Known pathogenic gene variants and new candidates detected in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death using Whole Genome Sequencing
  
  Angela M Bard, Lindsay V Clark, Erdal Cosgun, Kimberly A Aldinger, Andrew Timms, Lely A Quina, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, David Jardine, Elisabeth A Haas, Tatiana M Becker, Chelsea M Pagan, Avni Santani, Diego Martinez, Soumitra Barua, Zakkary McNutt, Addie Nesbitt, Edwin A Mitchell, Jan-Marino Ramirez
  
  American Journal of Medical Genetics | June 2024
  
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- Bridging the gap: leveraging data science to equip domain experts with the tools to address challenges in maternal, newborn, and child health
  
  Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, William Ogallo , Celia Cintas, Skyler Speakman, Aisha Walcott-Bryant , Charity Wayua
  
  npj Womens Health | May 2024
  
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- Bridging the rural‐urban divide: An implementation plan for leveraging technology and artificial intelligence to improve health and economic outcomes in rural America
  
  Bill Weeks, Justin Spelhaug , James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | March 2024
  
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- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
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- Improved estimation of the relationship between fetal growth and late stillbirth in the United States, 2014–15
  
  Darren Tanner, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Scientific Reports | March 2024
  
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- Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
  
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- Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
  
  Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
  
  Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
  
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- All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
  
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- Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Protein Language Models Improves Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions
  
  Samuel Sledzieski, Meghana Kshirsagar, Bonnie Berger, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Machine Learning for Structural Biology Workshop, NeurIPS | December 2023
  
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- Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
  
  S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
  
  2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
  
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- HLA-genotype-based Predictive Diagnosis of T-cell Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection Powered by Machine Learning
  
  Robert G. Lisziewicz, Felipe Oviedo, Andras G. Szasz, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Franco Lori, Julianna Lisziewicz
  
  European Society of Medicine | November 2023
  
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- Using Artificial Intelligence to Advance Public Health
  
  Bill Weeks, Brian Taliesin, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health (IJPH) | November 2023
  
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- Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them
  
  Bill Weeks, Ji E. Chang, José A. Pagán, Jeffrey Lumpkin, Divya Michael, Santiago Salcido, Allen Kim, Peter Speyer, Ann Aerts, James N. Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  PLOS Global Public Health | October 2023
  
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- An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
  
  International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
  
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- Risk factors for late (28+ weeks’ gestation) stillbirth in the United States, 2014–2015
  
  Darren Tanner, Sushama Murthy, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  PLOS ONE | August 2023
  
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- PSMA-Hornet: Fully-automated, multi-target segmentation of healthy organs in PSMA PET/CT images
  
  Ivan S. Klyuzhin, Guillaume Chaussé, Ingrid Bloise, Sara Harsini, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carlos Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  American Association of Physicists in Medicine | August 2023
  
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- Interpretable Ensemble-based Deep Learning Approach for Automated Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 by Optical Coherence Tomography
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Dr. Aaron Lee
  
  ICML Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare (IMLH 2023), Short Paper | July 2023
  
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- Using data science and a health equity lens to identify long-COVID sequelae among medically underserved populations
  
  Md Nasir, Nicole Cook, Daniel Parras, Sumit Mukherjee, Geralyn Miller, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Katherine Chung-Bridges
  
  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved | May 2023
  
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- Watching Innovation in Real Time: The Story of ChatGPT and Radiology
  
  Elliot K. Fishman, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Linda C. Chu
  
  Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal | May 2023
  
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- Maternal infections in pregnancy and the risk of sudden unexpected infant death in the offspring in the US, 2011–2015
  
  Maggie Weatherly, Anusua Trivedi, Ratna Chembrolu, Sanjana Gupta, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tatiana M. Anderson, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  PLoS ONE | April 2023
  
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- Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
  
  Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
  
  Scientific Reports | April 2023
  
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- Automatic segmentation of prostate cancer metastases in PSMA PET/CT images using deep neural networks with weighted batch-wise dice loss
  
  Yixi Xu, Ivan Klyuzhin, Sara Harsini, Anthony Ortiz, Shun Zhang, François Bénard, Rahul Dodhia, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim , Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Computers in Biology and Medicine | April 2023
  
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- A slice classification neural network for automated classification of axial PET/CT slices from a multi-centric lymphoma dataset
  
  Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Ingrid Bloise, Joo H. O., Carlos F. Uribe, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Arman Rahmim
  
  Medical Imaging 2023 | April 2023
  
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- AI as a Public Service
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K. Fishman , Steven P. Rowe , Linda C. Chu , Elias Lugo-Fagundo
  
  Journal of the American College of Radiology | March 2023
  
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- Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
  
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- Predicting the Locations of Cryptic Pockets from Single Protein Structures Using the PocketMiner Graph Neural Network
  
  Artur Meller, Michael Ward, Jonathan Borowsky, Jeffrey M. Lotthammer, Meghana Kshirsagar, Felipe Oviedo, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Gregory R. Bowman
  
  Nature Communications | February 2023
  
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- Identifying long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 and their association with social determinants of health in a cohort of over one million COVID-19 survivors
  
  Sumit Mukherjee, Meghana Kshirsagar, Nicholas Becker, Yixi Xu, Bill Weeks, Shwetak Patel, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Michael L. Jackson
  
  BMC Public Health | December 2022
  
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- Novel data analytics identify predictors of quality-of-life trajectories in patients with AML or high-risk Myeloid Neoplasms
  
  Jordan Gauthier, Bianca Furtuna, ,Jacopo Mangiavacchi, Shahrzad Gholami, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia, Amir T. Fathi,, Andrew M. Brunner, Aaron T. Gerds, Mikkael A. Sekeres, Bruno C. Medeiros, Eunice S. Wang, Paul J Shami, Kehinde Adekola, Selina M. Luger, Maria R. Baer, David A Rizzieri, Tanya Wildes, Jamie L. Koprivnikar, Julie Smith, Mitchell A. Garrison, Kiarash Kojouri, Frederick R. Appelbaum, Mary-Elizabeth M. Percival, Stephanie J. Lee, Mohamed L. Sorror
  
  Blood | November 2022
  
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- Factors Associated with the Intention to Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine: Cross-sectional National Study
  
  Monica L Kasting , Jonathan T Macy , Shaun J Grannis , Ashley J Wiensch , Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Brian E Dixon
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
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- The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
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- MACE: A Flexible Framework for Membership Privacy Estimation in Generative Models
  
  Yixi Xu, Sumit Mukherjee, Xiyang Liu, Shruti Tople, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) | October 2022
  
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- Machine Learning-based Derivation and External Validation of a Tool to Predict Death and Development of Organ Failure in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
  
  Yixi Xu, Anusua Trivedi, Nicholas Becker, Marian Blazes, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Dr. Aaron Lee, W Liles, Dr. Pavan Bhatraju
  
  Scientific Reports | October 2022
  
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- BindVAE: Dirichlet Variational Autoencoders for De Novo Motif Discovery from Accessible Chromatin
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Han Yuan, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Christina Leslie
  
  Genome Biology | August 2022
  
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- Testing the Ability of Convolutional Neural Networks to Learn Radiomic Features
  
  Ivan S. Klyuzhin, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Yixi Xu, Anthony Ortiz, Ghassan Hamarneh, Arman Rahmim
  
  ScienceDirect | June 2022
  
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- T-cell receptor sequencing identifies prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and correlates with neutralizing antibody titers and disease severity
  
  Rebecca Elyanow, Thomas M. Snyder, Sudeb C. Dalai, Rachel M. Gittelman, Boonyaratanakornkit J, Wald A, Selke S, Wener Mh, Morishima C, Greninger Al, Michael Gale, Tien-Ying Hsiang, Lichen Jing, Holbrook Mr, Ian M. Kaplan, Damon H May, H. Jabran Zahid, Jonathan M. Carlson, Lance Baldo, Thomas Manley, Harlan S Robins, David M Koelle
  
  JCI Insight | April 2022, Vol 7(10)
  
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- Evaluation of Individual and Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts of COVID-19 Mortality in the United States
  
  EY Cramer, EL Ray, VK Lopez, J Bracher, A Brennen, [….], Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  PNAS | April 2022
  
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- Effective Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting COVID-19 Outcomes from Chest Computed Tomography Volumes
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Anthony Ortiz, Caleb Robinson, Jocelyn Desbiens, Marian Blazes, Sunil Gupta, Rahul Dodhia, Pavan Bhatraju, W Conrad Liles, Aaron Lee, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Nature Scientific Reports | February 2022
  
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- Association of Public Health Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic with the Incidence of Infectious Conjunctivitis
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Thomas Meirick, Whitney Lomazow, Cecilia S. Lee, Aaron Y. Lee, Michele D. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | January 2022
  
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- Reimagining Leprosy Elimination with AI Analysis of a Combination of Skin Lesion Images with Demographic and Clinical Data
  
  Raquel R Barbieri, Yixi Xu, Lucy Setian, Paulo Thiago Souza-Santos, Anusua Trivedi, Jim Cristofono, Ricardo Bhering, Kevin White, Anna M Sales, Geralyn Miller, José Augusto C Nery, Michael Sharman, Richard Bumann, Shun Zhang, Mohamad Goldust, Euzenir N Sarno, Fareed Mirza, Arielle Cavaliero, Sander Timmer, Elena Bonfiglioli, Cairns Smith, David Scollard, Alexander A Navarini, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Milton O Moraes
  
  Science Direct | January 2022
  
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- Height Estimation of Children under Five Years using Depth Images
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Mohit Jain, Nikhil Kumar Gupta, Markus Hinsche, Prashant Singh, Markus Matiaschek, Tristan Behrens, Mirco Militeri, Cameron Birge, Shivangi Kaushik, Archisman Mohapatra, Rita Chatterjee, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc | November 2021
  
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- Retinal Microvasculature as Biomarker for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Jocelyn Desbiens, Ron Gross, Sunil Gupta, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  July 2021
  
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- Hierarchical Analysis of Visual COVID-19 Features from Chest Radiographs
  
  Shruthi Bannur, Ozan Oktay, Melanie Bernhardt, Anton Schwaighofer, Rajesh Jena, Besmira Nushi, Sharan Wadhwani, Aditya Nori, Kal Natarajan, Shazad Ashraf, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Daniel Coelho de Castro
  
  ICML 2021 Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare | July 2021
  
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- Height Estimation of Children under Five Years using Depth Images.
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Mohit Jain, Nikhil Kumar Gupta, Markus Hinsche, Prashant Singh, Markus Matiaschek, Tristan Behrens, Mirco Militeri, Cameron Birge, Shivangi Kaushik, Archisman Mohapatra, Rita Chatterjee, Rahul Dodhia, Juan Lavista Ferres, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  IEEE International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) | May 2021
  
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- Precision Mapping Child Undernutrition for Nearly 600,000 Inhabited Census Villages in India
  
  Rockli Kim, Avleen S. Bijral, Yun Xu, Xiuyuan Zhang, Jeffrey C. Blossom, Akshay Swaminathan, Gary King, Alok Kumar, Rakesh Sarwal,, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, S. V. Subramanian
  
  PNAS | May 2021, Vol 118
  
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- Automated Deep Segmentation of Healthy Organs in PSMA PET/CT Images
  
  Ivan Klyuzhin, Guillaume Chausse, Ingrid Bloise, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carlos Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  Journal of Nuclear Medicine | May 2021
  
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- Unsupervised Background Removal by Dual-Modality PET/CT Guidance: Application to PSMA Imaging of Metastases
  
  Ivan Klyuzhin, Yixi Xu, Sara Harsini, Anthony Ortiz, Carlos Uribe, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Arman Rahmim
  
  Journal of Nuclear Medicine | May 2021
  
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- Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse Resulting in Newborn Death in the United States
  
  Tatiana M Anderson, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Edwin A Mitchell
  
  MCN American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing (In Advance) | February 2021
  
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- Protein sequence models for prediction and comparative analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 —human interactome
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Nure Tasnina, Michael D. Ward, Jeffrey N. Law, T. M. Murali, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Gregory R. Bowman , Judith Klein-Seetharaman
  
  Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing | January 2021
  
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- Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
  
  Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
  
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- P0: Progress to zero: A simple metric to measure COVID-19 progress by country/region
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ruth B Etzioni, Bill Weeks
  
  May 2020
  
  DOI Preprint Project
- Geographic Variation in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States
  
  Edwin A.Mitchell, Xiaohan Yan, Shirley You Ren, Tatiana M. Anderson, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Richard Johnston
  
  The Journal of Pediatrics | February 2020, Vol 220: pp. 49-55
  
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- Distinct populations of sudden unexpected infant death based on age
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tatiana M. Anderson, Richard Johnston, Jan-Marino Ramirez , Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | January 2020, Vol 145(1)
  
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- Binary Mode Multinomial Deep Learning Model for more efficient Automated Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
  
  Anusua Trivedi, J. Desbiens, Ron Gross, S. Gupta, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia
  
  NeurIPS 2019 | December 2019
  
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- Maternal smoking before and during pregnancy and the risk of sudden unexpected infant death
  
  Tatiana M. Anderson, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Shirley You Ren, Rachel Y. Moon, Richard D. Goldstein, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | April 2019, Vol 143(4)
  
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- Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Multiple-Choice Questions for Ophthalmology Education
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Daniel B. Mummert, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Karine D. Bojikian
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | October 2025
  
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- Bridging Gaps in Ophthalmology Education Through Large Language Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Daniel B. Mummert , Joseph Carr, Robert R. McNabb, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Dale E. Fajardo
  
  AJO International | August 2025
  
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- SynthCraft: an AI partner for synthetic data generation to support data access and augmentation in healthcare
  
  Thomas Callender, Anders Boyd, Robert Davis, Silas Ruhrberg Estevez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Mihaela van der Schaar
  
  August 2025
  
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- Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study
  
  Md Nasir, Yixi Xu, Kyle Hasenstab, Alekhya Yechoor, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Guilherme Moura Cunha
  
  PloS One | August 2025
  
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- Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality
  
  Yixi Xu, Al-Rahim Habib, Graeme Crossland, Hemi Patel, Chris Perry, Kris Bock, Tony Lian, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Narinder Pal Singh
  
  July 2025
  
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- Cancer Detection in Breast MRI Screening via Explainable AI Anomaly Detection
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Anum S. Kazerouni, Philipp Liznerski, Yixi Xu, Michael Hirano, Robert A. Vandermeulen, Marius Kloft, Elyse Blum, Adam M. Alessio, Christopher I. Li, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Habib Rahbar, Savannah C. Partridge
  
  Radiology | July 2025
  
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- COVID-19 Pandemic-Era Changes in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | May 2025
  
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- Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of Small Metastatic Prostate Cancer Lesions on 3D PSMA PET Volumes Using Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections
  
  Amirhosein Toosi, Sara Harsini, Ghasemali Divband, François Bénard, Carlos F. Uribe, Felipe Oviedo, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Cancers | May 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- AI-Enabled Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings
  
  Anthony Ortiz, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Susana Patiño, Jehú Torres, Juan Mármol, Carlos Serafin, Rahul Dodhia, Gabriela Saidman, Vanina Schbib, Brenda Peña, Guillermo Monteoliva, María Ana Martinez-Castellanos
  
  JAMA Network Open | April 2025
  
  Publication PDF DOI
- Rapid and accurate prediction of protein homo-oligomer symmetry using Seq2Symm
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Artur Meller, Ian R. Humphreys, Samuel Sledzieski, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Eric Horvitz, Bonnie Berger, Gregory R. Bowman, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, David Baker, Minkyung Baek
  
  Nature Communications | February 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- AI in the Era of GPT: Transforming the Future of Work and Discovery
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu, Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, Charles K Crawford, Steven P Rowe
  
  Journal of the American College of Radiology | February 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF
- Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
  
  Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI
- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI
- Efficacy of a conversational chatbot for cigarette smoking cessation: Protocol of the QuitBot full-scale randomized controlled trial
  
  Jonathan B Bricker, Brianna M Sullivan, Kristin E Mull, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Margarita Santiago-Torres
  
  Contemporary Clinical Trials | December 2024
  
  Publication
- Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
  
  Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  BMJ Public Health | September 2024
  
  Publication PDF
- Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
  
  Pancreatology | September 2024
  
  Publication PDF
- A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
  
  Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
  
  International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
  
  Publication Publication
- Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
  
  Publication
- Democratizing Protein Language Models with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
  
  Samuel Sledzieski, Meghana Kshirsagar, Minkyung Baek, Bonnie Berger, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  PNAS | June 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Known pathogenic gene variants and new candidates detected in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death using Whole Genome Sequencing
  
  Angela M Bard, Lindsay V Clark, Erdal Cosgun, Kimberly A Aldinger, Andrew Timms, Lely A Quina, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, David Jardine, Elisabeth A Haas, Tatiana M Becker, Chelsea M Pagan, Avni Santani, Diego Martinez, Soumitra Barua, Zakkary McNutt, Addie Nesbitt, Edwin A Mitchell, Jan-Marino Ramirez
  
  American Journal of Medical Genetics | June 2024
  
  Publication PDF DOI
- Bridging the gap: leveraging data science to equip domain experts with the tools to address challenges in maternal, newborn, and child health
  
  Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, William Ogallo , Celia Cintas, Skyler Speakman, Aisha Walcott-Bryant , Charity Wayua
  
  npj Womens Health | May 2024
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Bridging the rural‐urban divide: An implementation plan for leveraging technology and artificial intelligence to improve health and economic outcomes in rural America
  
  Bill Weeks, Justin Spelhaug , James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Improved estimation of the relationship between fetal growth and late stillbirth in the United States, 2014–15
  
  Darren Tanner, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Scientific Reports | March 2024
  
  Publication PDF
- Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
  
  Publication
- Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
  
  Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
  
  Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
  
  Publication DOI
- Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Protein Language Models Improves Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions
  
  Samuel Sledzieski, Meghana Kshirsagar, Bonnie Berger, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Machine Learning for Structural Biology Workshop, NeurIPS | December 2023
  
  Publication
- Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
  
  S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
  
  2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- HLA-genotype-based Predictive Diagnosis of T-cell Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection Powered by Machine Learning
  
  Robert G. Lisziewicz, Felipe Oviedo, Andras G. Szasz, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Franco Lori, Julianna Lisziewicz
  
  European Society of Medicine | November 2023
  
  Publication PDF DOI
- Using Artificial Intelligence to Advance Public Health
  
  Bill Weeks, Brian Taliesin, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health (IJPH) | November 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them
  
  Bill Weeks, Ji E. Chang, José A. Pagán, Jeffrey Lumpkin, Divya Michael, Santiago Salcido, Allen Kim, Peter Speyer, Ann Aerts, James N. Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  PLOS Global Public Health | October 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
  
  International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Risk factors for late (28+ weeks’ gestation) stillbirth in the United States, 2014–2015
  
  Darren Tanner, Sushama Murthy, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  PLOS ONE | August 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- PSMA-Hornet: Fully-automated, multi-target segmentation of healthy organs in PSMA PET/CT images
  
  Ivan S. Klyuzhin, Guillaume Chaussé, Ingrid Bloise, Sara Harsini, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carlos Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  American Association of Physicists in Medicine | August 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Interpretable Ensemble-based Deep Learning Approach for Automated Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 by Optical Coherence Tomography
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Dr. Aaron Lee
  
  ICML Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare (IMLH 2023), Short Paper | July 2023
  
  Publication PDF
- Using data science and a health equity lens to identify long-COVID sequelae among medically underserved populations
  
  Md Nasir, Nicole Cook, Daniel Parras, Sumit Mukherjee, Geralyn Miller, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Katherine Chung-Bridges
  
  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved | May 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Watching Innovation in Real Time: The Story of ChatGPT and Radiology
  
  Elliot K. Fishman, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Linda C. Chu
  
  Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal | May 2023
  
  Publication
- Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
  
  Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
  
  Scientific Reports | April 2023
  
  Publication
- Automatic segmentation of prostate cancer metastases in PSMA PET/CT images using deep neural networks with weighted batch-wise dice loss
  
  Yixi Xu, Ivan Klyuzhin, Sara Harsini, Anthony Ortiz, Shun Zhang, François Bénard, Rahul Dodhia, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim , Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Computers in Biology and Medicine | April 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- A slice classification neural network for automated classification of axial PET/CT slices from a multi-centric lymphoma dataset
  
  Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Ingrid Bloise, Joo H. O., Carlos F. Uribe, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Arman Rahmim
  
  Medical Imaging 2023 | April 2023
  
  Publication
- AI as a Public Service
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K. Fishman , Steven P. Rowe , Linda C. Chu , Elias Lugo-Fagundo
  
  Journal of the American College of Radiology | March 2023
  
  Publication
- Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Novel data analytics identify predictors of quality-of-life trajectories in patients with AML or high-risk Myeloid Neoplasms
  
  Jordan Gauthier, Bianca Furtuna, ,Jacopo Mangiavacchi, Shahrzad Gholami, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia, Amir T. Fathi,, Andrew M. Brunner, Aaron T. Gerds, Mikkael A. Sekeres, Bruno C. Medeiros, Eunice S. Wang, Paul J Shami, Kehinde Adekola, Selina M. Luger, Maria R. Baer, David A Rizzieri, Tanya Wildes, Jamie L. Koprivnikar, Julie Smith, Mitchell A. Garrison, Kiarash Kojouri, Frederick R. Appelbaum, Mary-Elizabeth M. Percival, Stephanie J. Lee, Mohamed L. Sorror
  
  Blood | November 2022
  
  Publication
- Factors Associated with the Intention to Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine: Cross-sectional National Study
  
  Monica L Kasting , Jonathan T Macy , Shaun J Grannis , Ashley J Wiensch , Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Brian E Dixon
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- MACE: A Flexible Framework for Membership Privacy Estimation in Generative Models
  
  Yixi Xu, Sumit Mukherjee, Xiyang Liu, Shruti Tople, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) | October 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Testing the Ability of Convolutional Neural Networks to Learn Radiomic Features
  
  Ivan S. Klyuzhin, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Yixi Xu, Anthony Ortiz, Ghassan Hamarneh, Arman Rahmim
  
  ScienceDirect | June 2022
  
  Publication
- Association of Public Health Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic with the Incidence of Infectious Conjunctivitis
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Thomas Meirick, Whitney Lomazow, Cecilia S. Lee, Aaron Y. Lee, Michele D. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | January 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Hierarchical Analysis of Visual COVID-19 Features from Chest Radiographs
  
  Shruthi Bannur, Ozan Oktay, Melanie Bernhardt, Anton Schwaighofer, Rajesh Jena, Besmira Nushi, Sharan Wadhwani, Aditya Nori, Kal Natarajan, Shazad Ashraf, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Daniel Coelho de Castro
  
  ICML 2021 Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare | July 2021
  
  PDF Preprint Project Project Project
- Height Estimation of Children under Five Years using Depth Images.
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Mohit Jain, Nikhil Kumar Gupta, Markus Hinsche, Prashant Singh, Markus Matiaschek, Tristan Behrens, Mirco Militeri, Cameron Birge, Shivangi Kaushik, Archisman Mohapatra, Rita Chatterjee, Rahul Dodhia, Juan Lavista Ferres, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  IEEE International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) | May 2021
  
  Publication Publication Publication Project
- Precision Mapping Child Undernutrition for Nearly 600,000 Inhabited Census Villages in India
  
  Rockli Kim, Avleen S. Bijral, Yun Xu, Xiuyuan Zhang, Jeffrey C. Blossom, Akshay Swaminathan, Gary King, Alok Kumar, Rakesh Sarwal,, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, S. V. Subramanian
  
  PNAS | May 2021, Vol 118
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Unsupervised Background Removal by Dual-Modality PET/CT Guidance: Application to PSMA Imaging of Metastases
  
  Ivan Klyuzhin, Yixi Xu, Sara Harsini, Anthony Ortiz, Carlos Uribe, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Arman Rahmim
  
  Journal of Nuclear Medicine | May 2021
  
  Publication
- Automated Deep Segmentation of Healthy Organs in PSMA PET/CT Images
  
  Ivan Klyuzhin, Guillaume Chausse, Ingrid Bloise, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carlos Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  Journal of Nuclear Medicine | May 2021
  
  Publication
- Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse Resulting in Newborn Death in the United States
  
  Tatiana M Anderson, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Edwin A Mitchell
  
  MCN American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing (In Advance) | February 2021
  
  Publication PDF
- Protein sequence models for prediction and comparative analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 —human interactome
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Nure Tasnina, Michael D. Ward, Jeffrey N. Law, T. M. Murali, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Gregory R. Bowman , Judith Klein-Seetharaman
  
  Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing | January 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
  
  Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
  
  Publication
- Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Multiple-Choice Questions for Ophthalmology Education
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Daniel B. Mummert, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Karine D. Bojikian
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | October 2025
  
  Publication DOI
- Bridging Gaps in Ophthalmology Education Through Large Language Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Daniel B. Mummert , Joseph Carr, Robert R. McNabb, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Dale E. Fajardo
  
  AJO International | August 2025
  
  Publication PDF DOI
- SynthCraft: an AI partner for synthetic data generation to support data access and augmentation in healthcare
  
  Thomas Callender, Anders Boyd, Robert Davis, Silas Ruhrberg Estevez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Mihaela van der Schaar
  
  August 2025
  
  Publication DOI
- Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study
  
  Md Nasir, Yixi Xu, Kyle Hasenstab, Alekhya Yechoor, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Guilherme Moura Cunha
  
  PloS One | August 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality
  
  Yixi Xu, Al-Rahim Habib, Graeme Crossland, Hemi Patel, Chris Perry, Kris Bock, Tony Lian, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Narinder Pal Singh
  
  July 2025
  
  Preprint
- Cancer Detection in Breast MRI Screening via Explainable AI Anomaly Detection
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Anum S. Kazerouni, Philipp Liznerski, Yixi Xu, Michael Hirano, Robert A. Vandermeulen, Marius Kloft, Elyse Blum, Adam M. Alessio, Christopher I. Li, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Habib Rahbar, Savannah C. Partridge
  
  Radiology | July 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- COVID-19 Pandemic-Era Changes in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | May 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of Small Metastatic Prostate Cancer Lesions on 3D PSMA PET Volumes Using Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections
  
  Amirhosein Toosi, Sara Harsini, Ghasemali Divband, François Bénard, Carlos F. Uribe, Felipe Oviedo, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Cancers | May 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- Rapid and accurate prediction of protein homo-oligomer symmetry using Seq2Symm
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Artur Meller, Ian R. Humphreys, Samuel Sledzieski, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Eric Horvitz, Bonnie Berger, Gregory R. Bowman, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, David Baker, Minkyung Baek
  
  Nature Communications | February 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019
  
  Shaddy K. Saba, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  International Journal of Public Health | February 2025
  
  Publication
- AI in the Era of GPT: Transforming the Future of Work and Discovery
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu, Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, Charles K Crawford, Steven P Rowe
  
  Journal of the American College of Radiology | February 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF
- Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
  
  Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI
- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI
- Efficacy of a conversational chatbot for cigarette smoking cessation: Protocol of the QuitBot full-scale randomized controlled trial
  
  Jonathan B Bricker, Brianna M Sullivan, Kristin E Mull, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Margarita Santiago-Torres
  
  Contemporary Clinical Trials | December 2024
  
  Publication
- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
  Publication PDF
- Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
  
  Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  BMJ Public Health | September 2024
  
  Publication PDF
- Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
  
  Pancreatology | September 2024
  
  Publication PDF
- A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
  
  Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
  
  International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
  
  Publication Publication
- Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
  
  Publication
- Democratizing Protein Language Models with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
  
  Samuel Sledzieski, Meghana Kshirsagar, Minkyung Baek, Bonnie Berger, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  PNAS | June 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Known pathogenic gene variants and new candidates detected in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death using Whole Genome Sequencing
  
  Angela M Bard, Lindsay V Clark, Erdal Cosgun, Kimberly A Aldinger, Andrew Timms, Lely A Quina, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, David Jardine, Elisabeth A Haas, Tatiana M Becker, Chelsea M Pagan, Avni Santani, Diego Martinez, Soumitra Barua, Zakkary McNutt, Addie Nesbitt, Edwin A Mitchell, Jan-Marino Ramirez
  
  American Journal of Medical Genetics | June 2024
  
  Publication PDF DOI
- Bridging the gap: leveraging data science to equip domain experts with the tools to address challenges in maternal, newborn, and child health
  
  Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, William Ogallo , Celia Cintas, Skyler Speakman, Aisha Walcott-Bryant , Charity Wayua
  
  npj Womens Health | May 2024
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Bridging the rural‐urban divide: An implementation plan for leveraging technology and artificial intelligence to improve health and economic outcomes in rural America
  
  Bill Weeks, Justin Spelhaug , James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Improved estimation of the relationship between fetal growth and late stillbirth in the United States, 2014–15
  
  Darren Tanner, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Scientific Reports | March 2024
  
  Publication PDF
- Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
  
  Publication
- Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
  
  Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
  
  Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
  
  Publication DOI
- All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
  
  Publication DOI
- Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Protein Language Models Improves Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions
  
  Samuel Sledzieski, Meghana Kshirsagar, Bonnie Berger, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Machine Learning for Structural Biology Workshop, NeurIPS | December 2023
  
  Publication
- Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
  
  S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
  
  2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Using Artificial Intelligence to Advance Public Health
  
  Bill Weeks, Brian Taliesin, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health (IJPH) | November 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them
  
  Bill Weeks, Ji E. Chang, José A. Pagán, Jeffrey Lumpkin, Divya Michael, Santiago Salcido, Allen Kim, Peter Speyer, Ann Aerts, James N. Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  PLOS Global Public Health | October 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
  
  International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Risk factors for late (28+ weeks’ gestation) stillbirth in the United States, 2014–2015
  
  Darren Tanner, Sushama Murthy, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  PLOS ONE | August 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- PSMA-Hornet: Fully-automated, multi-target segmentation of healthy organs in PSMA PET/CT images
  
  Ivan S. Klyuzhin, Guillaume Chaussé, Ingrid Bloise, Sara Harsini, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carlos Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  American Association of Physicists in Medicine | August 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Interpretable Ensemble-based Deep Learning Approach for Automated Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 by Optical Coherence Tomography
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Dr. Aaron Lee
  
  ICML Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare (IMLH 2023), Short Paper | July 2023
  
  Publication PDF
- Using data science and a health equity lens to identify long-COVID sequelae among medically underserved populations
  
  Md Nasir, Nicole Cook, Daniel Parras, Sumit Mukherjee, Geralyn Miller, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Katherine Chung-Bridges
  
  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved | May 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Watching Innovation in Real Time: The Story of ChatGPT and Radiology
  
  Elliot K. Fishman, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Linda C. Chu
  
  Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal | May 2023
  
  Publication
- Maternal infections in pregnancy and the risk of sudden unexpected infant death in the offspring in the US, 2011–2015
  
  Maggie Weatherly, Anusua Trivedi, Ratna Chembrolu, Sanjana Gupta, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tatiana M. Anderson, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  PLoS ONE | April 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
  
  Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
  
  Scientific Reports | April 2023
  
  Publication
- Automatic segmentation of prostate cancer metastases in PSMA PET/CT images using deep neural networks with weighted batch-wise dice loss
  
  Yixi Xu, Ivan Klyuzhin, Sara Harsini, Anthony Ortiz, Shun Zhang, François Bénard, Rahul Dodhia, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim , Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Computers in Biology and Medicine | April 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- A slice classification neural network for automated classification of axial PET/CT slices from a multi-centric lymphoma dataset
  
  Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Ingrid Bloise, Joo H. O., Carlos F. Uribe, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Arman Rahmim
  
  Medical Imaging 2023 | April 2023
  
  Publication
- AI as a Public Service
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K. Fishman , Steven P. Rowe , Linda C. Chu , Elias Lugo-Fagundo
  
  Journal of the American College of Radiology | March 2023
  
  Publication
- Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Predicting the Locations of Cryptic Pockets from Single Protein Structures Using the PocketMiner Graph Neural Network
  
  Artur Meller, Michael Ward, Jonathan Borowsky, Jeffrey M. Lotthammer, Meghana Kshirsagar, Felipe Oviedo, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Gregory R. Bowman
  
  Nature Communications | February 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Identifying long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 and their association with social determinants of health in a cohort of over one million COVID-19 survivors
  
  Sumit Mukherjee, Meghana Kshirsagar, Nicholas Becker, Yixi Xu, Bill Weeks, Shwetak Patel, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Michael L. Jackson
  
  BMC Public Health | December 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Novel data analytics identify predictors of quality-of-life trajectories in patients with AML or high-risk Myeloid Neoplasms
  
  Jordan Gauthier, Bianca Furtuna, ,Jacopo Mangiavacchi, Shahrzad Gholami, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia, Amir T. Fathi,, Andrew M. Brunner, Aaron T. Gerds, Mikkael A. Sekeres, Bruno C. Medeiros, Eunice S. Wang, Paul J Shami, Kehinde Adekola, Selina M. Luger, Maria R. Baer, David A Rizzieri, Tanya Wildes, Jamie L. Koprivnikar, Julie Smith, Mitchell A. Garrison, Kiarash Kojouri, Frederick R. Appelbaum, Mary-Elizabeth M. Percival, Stephanie J. Lee, Mohamed L. Sorror
  
  Blood | November 2022
  
  Publication
- Factors Associated with the Intention to Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine: Cross-sectional National Study
  
  Monica L Kasting , Jonathan T Macy , Shaun J Grannis , Ashley J Wiensch , Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Brian E Dixon
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Machine Learning-based Derivation and External Validation of a Tool to Predict Death and Development of Organ Failure in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
  
  Yixi Xu, Anusua Trivedi, Nicholas Becker, Marian Blazes, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Dr. Aaron Lee, W Liles, Dr. Pavan Bhatraju
  
  Scientific Reports | October 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- BindVAE: Dirichlet Variational Autoencoders for De Novo Motif Discovery from Accessible Chromatin
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Han Yuan, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Christina Leslie
  
  Genome Biology | August 2022
  
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- Testing the Ability of Convolutional Neural Networks to Learn Radiomic Features
  
  Ivan S. Klyuzhin, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Yixi Xu, Anthony Ortiz, Ghassan Hamarneh, Arman Rahmim
  
  ScienceDirect | June 2022
  
  Publication
- T-cell receptor sequencing identifies prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and correlates with neutralizing antibody titers and disease severity
  
  Rebecca Elyanow, Thomas M. Snyder, Sudeb C. Dalai, Rachel M. Gittelman, Boonyaratanakornkit J, Wald A, Selke S, Wener Mh, Morishima C, Greninger Al, Michael Gale, Tien-Ying Hsiang, Lichen Jing, Holbrook Mr, Ian M. Kaplan, Damon H May, H. Jabran Zahid, Jonathan M. Carlson, Lance Baldo, Thomas Manley, Harlan S Robins, David M Koelle
  
  JCI Insight | April 2022, Vol 7(10)
  
  DOI Preprint Publication Project Project
- Evaluation of Individual and Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts of COVID-19 Mortality in the United States
  
  EY Cramer, EL Ray, VK Lopez, J Bracher, A Brennen, [….], Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  PNAS | April 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Effective Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting COVID-19 Outcomes from Chest Computed Tomography Volumes
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Anthony Ortiz, Caleb Robinson, Jocelyn Desbiens, Marian Blazes, Sunil Gupta, Rahul Dodhia, Pavan Bhatraju, W Conrad Liles, Aaron Lee, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Nature Scientific Reports | February 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Association of Public Health Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic with the Incidence of Infectious Conjunctivitis
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Thomas Meirick, Whitney Lomazow, Cecilia S. Lee, Aaron Y. Lee, Michele D. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | January 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Reimagining Leprosy Elimination with AI Analysis of a Combination of Skin Lesion Images with Demographic and Clinical Data
  
  Raquel R Barbieri, Yixi Xu, Lucy Setian, Paulo Thiago Souza-Santos, Anusua Trivedi, Jim Cristofono, Ricardo Bhering, Kevin White, Anna M Sales, Geralyn Miller, José Augusto C Nery, Michael Sharman, Richard Bumann, Shun Zhang, Mohamad Goldust, Euzenir N Sarno, Fareed Mirza, Arielle Cavaliero, Sander Timmer, Elena Bonfiglioli, Cairns Smith, David Scollard, Alexander A Navarini, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Milton O Moraes
  
  Science Direct | January 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Height Estimation of Children under Five Years using Depth Images
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Mohit Jain, Nikhil Kumar Gupta, Markus Hinsche, Prashant Singh, Markus Matiaschek, Tristan Behrens, Mirco Militeri, Cameron Birge, Shivangi Kaushik, Archisman Mohapatra, Rita Chatterjee, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc | November 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Retinal Microvasculature as Biomarker for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Jocelyn Desbiens, Ron Gross, Sunil Gupta, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  July 2021
  
  Accepted in KDD
  
  Publication
- Hierarchical Analysis of Visual COVID-19 Features from Chest Radiographs
  
  Shruthi Bannur, Ozan Oktay, Melanie Bernhardt, Anton Schwaighofer, Rajesh Jena, Besmira Nushi, Sharan Wadhwani, Aditya Nori, Kal Natarajan, Shazad Ashraf, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Daniel Coelho de Castro
  
  ICML 2021 Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare | July 2021
  
  PDF Preprint Project Project Project
- Precision Mapping Child Undernutrition for Nearly 600,000 Inhabited Census Villages in India
  
  Rockli Kim, Avleen S. Bijral, Yun Xu, Xiuyuan Zhang, Jeffrey C. Blossom, Akshay Swaminathan, Gary King, Alok Kumar, Rakesh Sarwal,, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, S. V. Subramanian
  
  PNAS | May 2021, Vol 118
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Unsupervised Background Removal by Dual-Modality PET/CT Guidance: Application to PSMA Imaging of Metastases
  
  Ivan Klyuzhin, Yixi Xu, Sara Harsini, Anthony Ortiz, Carlos Uribe, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Arman Rahmim
  
  Journal of Nuclear Medicine | May 2021
  
  Publication
- Automated Deep Segmentation of Healthy Organs in PSMA PET/CT Images
  
  Ivan Klyuzhin, Guillaume Chausse, Ingrid Bloise, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carlos Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  Journal of Nuclear Medicine | May 2021
  
  Publication
- Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse Resulting in Newborn Death in the United States
  
  Tatiana M Anderson, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Edwin A Mitchell
  
  MCN American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing (In Advance) | February 2021
  
  Publication PDF
- Protein sequence models for prediction and comparative analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 —human interactome
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Nure Tasnina, Michael D. Ward, Jeffrey N. Law, T. M. Murali, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Gregory R. Bowman , Judith Klein-Seetharaman
  
  Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing | January 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
  
  Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
  
  Publication
- P0: Progress to zero: A simple metric to measure COVID-19 progress by country/region
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ruth B Etzioni, Bill Weeks
  
  May 2020
  
  DOI Preprint Project
- Geographic Variation in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States
  
  Edwin A.Mitchell, Xiaohan Yan, Shirley You Ren, Tatiana M. Anderson, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Richard Johnston
  
  The Journal of Pediatrics | February 2020, Vol 220: pp. 49-55
  
  Publication DOI
- Distinct populations of sudden unexpected infant death based on age
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tatiana M. Anderson, Richard Johnston, Jan-Marino Ramirez , Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | January 2020, Vol 145(1)
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Binary Mode Multinomial Deep Learning Model for more efficient Automated Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
  
  Anusua Trivedi, J. Desbiens, Ron Gross, S. Gupta, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia
  
  NeurIPS 2019 | December 2019
  
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- Maternal smoking before and during pregnancy and the risk of sudden unexpected infant death
  
  Tatiana M. Anderson, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Shirley You Ren, Rachel Y. Moon, Richard D. Goldstein, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | April 2019, Vol 143(4)
  
  Publication PDF
- AI-Enabled Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings
  
  Anthony Ortiz, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Susana Patiño, Jehú Torres, Juan Mármol, Carlos Serafin, Rahul Dodhia, Gabriela Saidman, Vanina Schbib, Brenda Peña, Guillermo Monteoliva, María Ana Martinez-Castellanos
  
  JAMA Network Open | April 2025
  
  Publication PDF DOI
- Hierarchical Analysis of Visual COVID-19 Features from Chest Radiographs
  
  Shruthi Bannur, Ozan Oktay, Melanie Bernhardt, Anton Schwaighofer, Rajesh Jena, Besmira Nushi, Sharan Wadhwani, Aditya Nori, Kal Natarajan, Shazad Ashraf, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Daniel Coelho de Castro
  
  ICML 2021 Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare | July 2021
  
  PDF Preprint Project Project Project
- Height Estimation of Children under Five Years using Depth Images.
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Mohit Jain, Nikhil Kumar Gupta, Markus Hinsche, Prashant Singh, Markus Matiaschek, Tristan Behrens, Mirco Militeri, Cameron Birge, Shivangi Kaushik, Archisman Mohapatra, Rita Chatterjee, Rahul Dodhia, Juan Lavista Ferres, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  IEEE International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) | May 2021
  
  Publication Publication Publication Project
- Precision Mapping Child Undernutrition for Nearly 600,000 Inhabited Census Villages in India
  
  Rockli Kim, Avleen S. Bijral, Yun Xu, Xiuyuan Zhang, Jeffrey C. Blossom, Akshay Swaminathan, Gary King, Alok Kumar, Rakesh Sarwal,, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, S. V. Subramanian
  
  PNAS | May 2021, Vol 118
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Efficacy of a conversational chatbot for cigarette smoking cessation: Protocol of the QuitBot full-scale randomized controlled trial
  
  Jonathan B Bricker, Brianna M Sullivan, Kristin E Mull, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Margarita Santiago-Torres
  
  Contemporary Clinical Trials | December 2024
  
  Publication
- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
  Publication PDF
- Precision Mapping Child Undernutrition for Nearly 600,000 Inhabited Census Villages in India
  
  Rockli Kim, Avleen S. Bijral, Yun Xu, Xiuyuan Zhang, Jeffrey C. Blossom, Akshay Swaminathan, Gary King, Alok Kumar, Rakesh Sarwal,, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, S. V. Subramanian
  
  PNAS | May 2021, Vol 118
  
  Publication PDF Project
- MACE: A Flexible Framework for Membership Privacy Estimation in Generative Models
  
  Yixi Xu, Sumit Mukherjee, Xiyang Liu, Shruti Tople, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) | October 2022
  
  Publication Project

- Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Multiple-Choice Questions for Ophthalmology Education
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Daniel B. Mummert, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Karine D. Bojikian
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | October 2025
  
  Publication DOI
- Bridging Gaps in Ophthalmology Education Through Large Language Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Daniel B. Mummert , Joseph Carr, Robert R. McNabb, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Dale E. Fajardo
  
  AJO International | August 2025
  
  Publication PDF DOI
- Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study
  
  Md Nasir, Yixi Xu, Kyle Hasenstab, Alekhya Yechoor, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Guilherme Moura Cunha
  
  PloS One | August 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- Cancer Detection in Breast MRI Screening via Explainable AI Anomaly Detection
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Anum S. Kazerouni, Philipp Liznerski, Yixi Xu, Michael Hirano, Robert A. Vandermeulen, Marius Kloft, Elyse Blum, Adam M. Alessio, Christopher I. Li, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Habib Rahbar, Savannah C. Partridge
  
  Radiology | July 2025
  
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- COVID-19 Pandemic-Era Changes in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | May 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of Small Metastatic Prostate Cancer Lesions on 3D PSMA PET Volumes Using Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections
  
  Amirhosein Toosi, Sara Harsini, Ghasemali Divband, François Bénard, Carlos F. Uribe, Felipe Oviedo, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Cancers | May 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- AI-Enabled Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings
  
  Anthony Ortiz, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Susana Patiño, Jehú Torres, Juan Mármol, Carlos Serafin, Rahul Dodhia, Gabriela Saidman, Vanina Schbib, Brenda Peña, Guillermo Monteoliva, María Ana Martinez-Castellanos
  
  JAMA Network Open | April 2025
  
  Publication PDF DOI
- Rapid and accurate prediction of protein homo-oligomer symmetry using Seq2Symm
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Artur Meller, Ian R. Humphreys, Samuel Sledzieski, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Eric Horvitz, Bonnie Berger, Gregory R. Bowman, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, David Baker, Minkyung Baek
  
  Nature Communications | February 2025
  
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- Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019
  
  Shaddy K. Saba, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  International Journal of Public Health | February 2025
  
  Publication
- AI in the Era of GPT: Transforming the Future of Work and Discovery
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu, Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, Charles K Crawford, Steven P Rowe
  
  Journal of the American College of Radiology | February 2025
  
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- Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
  
  Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
  
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- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
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- Efficacy of a conversational chatbot for cigarette smoking cessation: Protocol of the QuitBot full-scale randomized controlled trial
  
  Jonathan B Bricker, Brianna M Sullivan, Kristin E Mull, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Margarita Santiago-Torres
  
  Contemporary Clinical Trials | December 2024
  
  Publication
- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
  Publication PDF
- Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
  
  Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  BMJ Public Health | September 2024
  
  Publication PDF
- Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
  
  Pancreatology | September 2024
  
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- A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
  
  Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
  
  International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
  
  Publication Publication
- Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
  
  Publication
- Democratizing Protein Language Models with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
  
  Samuel Sledzieski, Meghana Kshirsagar, Minkyung Baek, Bonnie Berger, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  PNAS | June 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Known pathogenic gene variants and new candidates detected in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death using Whole Genome Sequencing
  
  Angela M Bard, Lindsay V Clark, Erdal Cosgun, Kimberly A Aldinger, Andrew Timms, Lely A Quina, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, David Jardine, Elisabeth A Haas, Tatiana M Becker, Chelsea M Pagan, Avni Santani, Diego Martinez, Soumitra Barua, Zakkary McNutt, Addie Nesbitt, Edwin A Mitchell, Jan-Marino Ramirez
  
  American Journal of Medical Genetics | June 2024
  
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- Bridging the gap: leveraging data science to equip domain experts with the tools to address challenges in maternal, newborn, and child health
  
  Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, William Ogallo , Celia Cintas, Skyler Speakman, Aisha Walcott-Bryant , Charity Wayua
  
  npj Womens Health | May 2024
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Bridging the rural‐urban divide: An implementation plan for leveraging technology and artificial intelligence to improve health and economic outcomes in rural America
  
  Bill Weeks, Justin Spelhaug , James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Improved estimation of the relationship between fetal growth and late stillbirth in the United States, 2014–15
  
  Darren Tanner, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Scientific Reports | March 2024
  
  Publication PDF
- Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
  
  Publication
- Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
  
  Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
  
  Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
  
  Publication DOI
- All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
  
  Publication DOI
- HLA-genotype-based Predictive Diagnosis of T-cell Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection Powered by Machine Learning
  
  Robert G. Lisziewicz, Felipe Oviedo, Andras G. Szasz, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Franco Lori, Julianna Lisziewicz
  
  European Society of Medicine | November 2023
  
  Publication PDF DOI
- Using Artificial Intelligence to Advance Public Health
  
  Bill Weeks, Brian Taliesin, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health (IJPH) | November 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them
  
  Bill Weeks, Ji E. Chang, José A. Pagán, Jeffrey Lumpkin, Divya Michael, Santiago Salcido, Allen Kim, Peter Speyer, Ann Aerts, James N. Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  PLOS Global Public Health | October 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
  
  International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Risk factors for late (28+ weeks’ gestation) stillbirth in the United States, 2014–2015
  
  Darren Tanner, Sushama Murthy, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  PLOS ONE | August 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- PSMA-Hornet: Fully-automated, multi-target segmentation of healthy organs in PSMA PET/CT images
  
  Ivan S. Klyuzhin, Guillaume Chaussé, Ingrid Bloise, Sara Harsini, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carlos Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  American Association of Physicists in Medicine | August 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Using data science and a health equity lens to identify long-COVID sequelae among medically underserved populations
  
  Md Nasir, Nicole Cook, Daniel Parras, Sumit Mukherjee, Geralyn Miller, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Katherine Chung-Bridges
  
  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved | May 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Watching Innovation in Real Time: The Story of ChatGPT and Radiology
  
  Elliot K. Fishman, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Linda C. Chu
  
  Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal | May 2023
  
  Publication
- Maternal infections in pregnancy and the risk of sudden unexpected infant death in the offspring in the US, 2011–2015
  
  Maggie Weatherly, Anusua Trivedi, Ratna Chembrolu, Sanjana Gupta, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tatiana M. Anderson, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  PLoS ONE | April 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
  
  Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
  
  Scientific Reports | April 2023
  
  Publication
- Automatic segmentation of prostate cancer metastases in PSMA PET/CT images using deep neural networks with weighted batch-wise dice loss
  
  Yixi Xu, Ivan Klyuzhin, Sara Harsini, Anthony Ortiz, Shun Zhang, François Bénard, Rahul Dodhia, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim , Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Computers in Biology and Medicine | April 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- A slice classification neural network for automated classification of axial PET/CT slices from a multi-centric lymphoma dataset
  
  Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Ingrid Bloise, Joo H. O., Carlos F. Uribe, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Arman Rahmim
  
  Medical Imaging 2023 | April 2023
  
  Publication
- AI as a Public Service
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K. Fishman , Steven P. Rowe , Linda C. Chu , Elias Lugo-Fagundo
  
  Journal of the American College of Radiology | March 2023
  
  Publication
- Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Predicting the Locations of Cryptic Pockets from Single Protein Structures Using the PocketMiner Graph Neural Network
  
  Artur Meller, Michael Ward, Jonathan Borowsky, Jeffrey M. Lotthammer, Meghana Kshirsagar, Felipe Oviedo, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Gregory R. Bowman
  
  Nature Communications | February 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Identifying long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 and their association with social determinants of health in a cohort of over one million COVID-19 survivors
  
  Sumit Mukherjee, Meghana Kshirsagar, Nicholas Becker, Yixi Xu, Bill Weeks, Shwetak Patel, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Michael L. Jackson
  
  BMC Public Health | December 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Novel data analytics identify predictors of quality-of-life trajectories in patients with AML or high-risk Myeloid Neoplasms
  
  Jordan Gauthier, Bianca Furtuna, ,Jacopo Mangiavacchi, Shahrzad Gholami, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia, Amir T. Fathi,, Andrew M. Brunner, Aaron T. Gerds, Mikkael A. Sekeres, Bruno C. Medeiros, Eunice S. Wang, Paul J Shami, Kehinde Adekola, Selina M. Luger, Maria R. Baer, David A Rizzieri, Tanya Wildes, Jamie L. Koprivnikar, Julie Smith, Mitchell A. Garrison, Kiarash Kojouri, Frederick R. Appelbaum, Mary-Elizabeth M. Percival, Stephanie J. Lee, Mohamed L. Sorror
  
  Blood | November 2022
  
  Publication
- Factors Associated with the Intention to Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine: Cross-sectional National Study
  
  Monica L Kasting , Jonathan T Macy , Shaun J Grannis , Ashley J Wiensch , Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Brian E Dixon
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- MACE: A Flexible Framework for Membership Privacy Estimation in Generative Models
  
  Yixi Xu, Sumit Mukherjee, Xiyang Liu, Shruti Tople, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) | October 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Machine Learning-based Derivation and External Validation of a Tool to Predict Death and Development of Organ Failure in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
  
  Yixi Xu, Anusua Trivedi, Nicholas Becker, Marian Blazes, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Dr. Aaron Lee, W Liles, Dr. Pavan Bhatraju
  
  Scientific Reports | October 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- BindVAE: Dirichlet Variational Autoencoders for De Novo Motif Discovery from Accessible Chromatin
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Han Yuan, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Christina Leslie
  
  Genome Biology | August 2022
  
  Publication PDF Github
- Testing the Ability of Convolutional Neural Networks to Learn Radiomic Features
  
  Ivan S. Klyuzhin, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Yixi Xu, Anthony Ortiz, Ghassan Hamarneh, Arman Rahmim
  
  ScienceDirect | June 2022
  
  Publication
- T-cell receptor sequencing identifies prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and correlates with neutralizing antibody titers and disease severity
  
  Rebecca Elyanow, Thomas M. Snyder, Sudeb C. Dalai, Rachel M. Gittelman, Boonyaratanakornkit J, Wald A, Selke S, Wener Mh, Morishima C, Greninger Al, Michael Gale, Tien-Ying Hsiang, Lichen Jing, Holbrook Mr, Ian M. Kaplan, Damon H May, H. Jabran Zahid, Jonathan M. Carlson, Lance Baldo, Thomas Manley, Harlan S Robins, David M Koelle
  
  JCI Insight | April 2022, Vol 7(10)
  
  DOI Preprint Publication Project Project
- Evaluation of Individual and Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts of COVID-19 Mortality in the United States
  
  EY Cramer, EL Ray, VK Lopez, J Bracher, A Brennen, [….], Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  PNAS | April 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Effective Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting COVID-19 Outcomes from Chest Computed Tomography Volumes
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Anthony Ortiz, Caleb Robinson, Jocelyn Desbiens, Marian Blazes, Sunil Gupta, Rahul Dodhia, Pavan Bhatraju, W Conrad Liles, Aaron Lee, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Nature Scientific Reports | February 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Association of Public Health Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic with the Incidence of Infectious Conjunctivitis
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Thomas Meirick, Whitney Lomazow, Cecilia S. Lee, Aaron Y. Lee, Michele D. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | January 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Reimagining Leprosy Elimination with AI Analysis of a Combination of Skin Lesion Images with Demographic and Clinical Data
  
  Raquel R Barbieri, Yixi Xu, Lucy Setian, Paulo Thiago Souza-Santos, Anusua Trivedi, Jim Cristofono, Ricardo Bhering, Kevin White, Anna M Sales, Geralyn Miller, José Augusto C Nery, Michael Sharman, Richard Bumann, Shun Zhang, Mohamad Goldust, Euzenir N Sarno, Fareed Mirza, Arielle Cavaliero, Sander Timmer, Elena Bonfiglioli, Cairns Smith, David Scollard, Alexander A Navarini, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Milton O Moraes
  
  Science Direct | January 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Height Estimation of Children under Five Years using Depth Images
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Mohit Jain, Nikhil Kumar Gupta, Markus Hinsche, Prashant Singh, Markus Matiaschek, Tristan Behrens, Mirco Militeri, Cameron Birge, Shivangi Kaushik, Archisman Mohapatra, Rita Chatterjee, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc | November 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Precision Mapping Child Undernutrition for Nearly 600,000 Inhabited Census Villages in India
  
  Rockli Kim, Avleen S. Bijral, Yun Xu, Xiuyuan Zhang, Jeffrey C. Blossom, Akshay Swaminathan, Gary King, Alok Kumar, Rakesh Sarwal,, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, S. V. Subramanian
  
  PNAS | May 2021, Vol 118
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Unsupervised Background Removal by Dual-Modality PET/CT Guidance: Application to PSMA Imaging of Metastases
  
  Ivan Klyuzhin, Yixi Xu, Sara Harsini, Anthony Ortiz, Carlos Uribe, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Arman Rahmim
  
  Journal of Nuclear Medicine | May 2021
  
  Publication
- Automated Deep Segmentation of Healthy Organs in PSMA PET/CT Images
  
  Ivan Klyuzhin, Guillaume Chausse, Ingrid Bloise, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carlos Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  Journal of Nuclear Medicine | May 2021
  
  Publication
- Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse Resulting in Newborn Death in the United States
  
  Tatiana M Anderson, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Edwin A Mitchell
  
  MCN American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing (In Advance) | February 2021
  
  Publication PDF
- Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
  
  Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
  
  Publication
- Geographic Variation in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States
  
  Edwin A.Mitchell, Xiaohan Yan, Shirley You Ren, Tatiana M. Anderson, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Richard Johnston
  
  The Journal of Pediatrics | February 2020, Vol 220: pp. 49-55
  
  Publication DOI
- Distinct populations of sudden unexpected infant death based on age
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tatiana M. Anderson, Richard Johnston, Jan-Marino Ramirez , Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | January 2020, Vol 145(1)
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Maternal smoking before and during pregnancy and the risk of sudden unexpected infant death
  
  Tatiana M. Anderson, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Shirley You Ren, Rachel Y. Moon, Richard D. Goldstein, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | April 2019, Vol 143(4)
  
  Publication PDF
- SynthCraft: an AI partner for synthetic data generation to support data access and augmentation in healthcare
  
  Thomas Callender, Anders Boyd, Robert Davis, Silas Ruhrberg Estevez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Mihaela van der Schaar
  
  August 2025
  
  Publication DOI
- Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality
  
  Yixi Xu, Al-Rahim Habib, Graeme Crossland, Hemi Patel, Chris Perry, Kris Bock, Tony Lian, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Narinder Pal Singh
  
  July 2025
  
  Preprint
- Retinal Microvasculature as Biomarker for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Jocelyn Desbiens, Ron Gross, Sunil Gupta, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  July 2021
  
  Accepted in KDD
  
  Publication
- P0: Progress to zero: A simple metric to measure COVID-19 progress by country/region
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ruth B Etzioni, Bill Weeks
  
  May 2020
  
  DOI Preprint Project
- Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Protein Language Models Improves Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions
  
  Samuel Sledzieski, Meghana Kshirsagar, Bonnie Berger, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Machine Learning for Structural Biology Workshop, NeurIPS | December 2023
  
  Publication
- Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
  
  S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
  
  2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
  
  Publication DOI
- Interpretable Ensemble-based Deep Learning Approach for Automated Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 by Optical Coherence Tomography
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Dr. Aaron Lee
  
  ICML Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare (IMLH 2023), Short Paper | July 2023
  
  Publication PDF
- Hierarchical Analysis of Visual COVID-19 Features from Chest Radiographs
  
  Shruthi Bannur, Ozan Oktay, Melanie Bernhardt, Anton Schwaighofer, Rajesh Jena, Besmira Nushi, Sharan Wadhwani, Aditya Nori, Kal Natarajan, Shazad Ashraf, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Daniel Coelho de Castro
  
  ICML 2021 Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare | July 2021
  
  PDF Preprint Project Project Project
- Height Estimation of Children under Five Years using Depth Images.
  
  Anusua Trivedi, Mohit Jain, Nikhil Kumar Gupta, Markus Hinsche, Prashant Singh, Markus Matiaschek, Tristan Behrens, Mirco Militeri, Cameron Birge, Shivangi Kaushik, Archisman Mohapatra, Rita Chatterjee, Rahul Dodhia, Juan Lavista Ferres, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  IEEE International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) | May 2021
  
  Publication Publication Publication Project
- Protein sequence models for prediction and comparative analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 —human interactome
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Nure Tasnina, Michael D. Ward, Jeffrey N. Law, T. M. Murali, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Gregory R. Bowman , Judith Klein-Seetharaman
  
  Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing | January 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Binary Mode Multinomial Deep Learning Model for more efficient Automated Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
  
  Anusua Trivedi, J. Desbiens, Ron Gross, S. Gupta, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia
  
  NeurIPS 2019 | December 2019
  
  PDF

AI for Health

Publications

Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Multiple-Choice Questions for Ophthalmology Education

Bridging Gaps in Ophthalmology Education Through Large Language Models

Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study

SynthCraft: an AI partner for synthetic data generation to support data access and augmentation in healthcare

Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality

Cancer Detection in Breast MRI Screening via Explainable AI Anomaly Detection

COVID-19 Pandemic-Era Changes in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States

Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of Small Metastatic Prostate Cancer Lesions on 3D PSMA PET Volumes Using Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections

AI-Enabled Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings

Rapid and accurate prediction of protein homo-oligomer symmetry using Seq2Symm

Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019

AI in the Era of GPT: Transforming the Future of Work and Discovery

Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models

Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs

Efficacy of a conversational chatbot for cigarette smoking cessation: Protocol of the QuitBot full-scale randomized controlled trial

Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice

Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City

Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst

A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services

Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death

Democratizing Protein Language Models with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Known pathogenic gene variants and new candidates detected in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death using Whole Genome Sequencing

Bridging the gap: leveraging data science to equip domain experts with the tools to address challenges in maternal, newborn, and child health

Bridging the rural‐urban divide: An implementation plan for leveraging technology and artificial intelligence to improve health and economic outcomes in rural America

Health and Wealth in America

Improved estimation of the relationship between fetal growth and late stillbirth in the United States, 2014–15

Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2

Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Protein Language Models Improves Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions

Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images

HLA-genotype-based Predictive Diagnosis of T-cell Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection Powered by Machine Learning

Using Artificial Intelligence to Advance Public Health

Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them

An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health

Risk factors for late (28+ weeks’ gestation) stillbirth in the United States, 2014–2015

PSMA-Hornet: Fully-automated, multi-target segmentation of healthy organs in PSMA PET/CT images

Interpretable Ensemble-based Deep Learning Approach for Automated Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 by Optical Coherence Tomography

Using data science and a health equity lens to identify long-COVID sequelae among medically underserved populations

Watching Innovation in Real Time: The Story of ChatGPT and Radiology

Maternal infections in pregnancy and the risk of sudden unexpected infant death in the offspring in the US, 2011–2015

Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy

Automatic segmentation of prostate cancer metastases in PSMA PET/CT images using deep neural networks with weighted batch-wise dice loss

A slice classification neural network for automated classification of axial PET/CT slices from a multi-centric lymphoma dataset

AI as a Public Service

Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)

Predicting the Locations of Cryptic Pockets from Single Protein Structures Using the PocketMiner Graph Neural Network

Identifying long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 and their association with social determinants of health in a cohort of over one million COVID-19 survivors

Novel data analytics identify predictors of quality-of-life trajectories in patients with AML or high-risk Myeloid Neoplasms

Factors Associated with the Intention to Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine: Cross-sectional National Study

The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data

MACE: A Flexible Framework for Membership Privacy Estimation in Generative Models

Machine Learning-based Derivation and External Validation of a Tool to Predict Death and Development of Organ Failure in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19

BindVAE: Dirichlet Variational Autoencoders for De Novo Motif Discovery from Accessible Chromatin

Testing the Ability of Convolutional Neural Networks to Learn Radiomic Features

T-cell receptor sequencing identifies prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and correlates with neutralizing antibody titers and disease severity

Evaluation of Individual and Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts of COVID-19 Mortality in the United States

Effective Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting COVID-19 Outcomes from Chest Computed Tomography Volumes

Association of Public Health Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic with the Incidence of Infectious Conjunctivitis

Reimagining Leprosy Elimination with AI Analysis of a Combination of Skin Lesion Images with Demographic and Clinical Data

Height Estimation of Children under Five Years using Depth Images

Retinal Microvasculature as Biomarker for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases

Hierarchical Analysis of Visual COVID-19 Features from Chest Radiographs

Height Estimation of Children under Five Years using Depth Images.

Precision Mapping Child Undernutrition for Nearly 600,000 Inhabited Census Villages in India

Automated Deep Segmentation of Healthy Organs in PSMA PET/CT Images

Unsupervised Background Removal by Dual-Modality PET/CT Guidance: Application to PSMA Imaging of Metastases

Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse Resulting in Newborn Death in the United States

Protein sequence models for prediction and comparative analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 —human interactome

Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut

P0: Progress to zero: A simple metric to measure COVID-19 progress by country/region

Geographic Variation in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States

Distinct populations of sudden unexpected infant death based on age

Binary Mode Multinomial Deep Learning Model for more efficient Automated Diabetic Retinopathy Detection

Maternal smoking before and during pregnancy and the risk of sudden unexpected infant death

Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Multiple-Choice Questions for Ophthalmology Education

Bridging Gaps in Ophthalmology Education Through Large Language Models

SynthCraft: an AI partner for synthetic data generation to support data access and augmentation in healthcare