Hua Min, PhD

Hua Min
Titles and Organizations

Associate Professor, HAP

Contact Information

Email: hmin3@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-5648
Building: Peterson Hall
Room 4416

Personal Websites

Biography

Dr. Hua Min is an associate professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. Min’s research interests are ontology-based data integration, ontology-based machine learning methods, data extraction and analysis from various EHR systems. Min is a leading expert on medical ontology and its applications in health and clinical informatics. Before coming to Mason, Min was an assistant member at Fox Chase Cancer Center. 

Research

Research Interests

  • Health Informatics
  • Health Information Systems
  • Medical standards and ontologies
  • Ontology based data integration
  • Ontology guided machine learning
  • Databases and data warehousing

Select Publications

Min, H., Mobahi, H.*, Irvin, K.*, Avramovic, S., & Wojtusiak J. (2017, September 16). Predicting activities of daily living for cancer patients using an ontology-guided machine learning methodology. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 8(1), 39. PMID: 28915930

Zheng, L.*, Min, H., Chen, Y., Xu, J., Geller, J., & Perl Y. (2017). Auditing NCIt Neoplasm concepts in groups of high error concentration. Applied Ontology, 12(2), 113-130. https://doi.org/10.3233/AO-170179

Min, H., Zheng, L.*, Perl, Y., Halper, M., & de Coronado S., Ochs C.*. (2017, May). Quality assurance analysis of complex concepts in the NCIt. Methods of Information in Medicine, 56(3), 200-208. https://doi.org/10.3414/ME16-01-0085. PMID: 28244549

Min, H., Avramovic, S*., Wojtusiak, J., Khosla, R., Fletcher,R. D., Alemi, F., & Kheirbek, R. E. (2017, January). A comprehensive multi-morbidity index for predicting mortality in ICU patients. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 20(1), 35-41. PMID: 27925837

Ochs, C.*, Geller, J., Perl, Y., Chen, Y., Xu, J., Min, H., Case, J.T., & Wei, Z. (2015, May). Scalable quality assurance for Large SNOMED CT hierarchies using subject-based subtaxonomies. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 22(3), 507-18. PMID: 25336594

Min, H., Ohira, R., Collins, M. A., Bondy, J., Avis, N., Tchuvatkina, … Ross E. A. (2014, August). Sharing behavioral data through a grid infrastructure using data standards. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 21(4), 642-9. PMID: 24076749

Grants

"Restoring Primary Care in Virginia: Using PCOR Implementation to Demonstrate Value," Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) R18. May 2015-May 2018. Role: Co-Investigator. $700,000/per year.

“Applying the Ontology-guided Machine Learning to analyze the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program-Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (SEER-MHOS) Linked Database,” Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research. August 2015-August 2016. Role: Principal Investigator. $100,000.

“Artificial Intelligence for Data Analysis,” U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. September 2013 – September 2014. Role: Co-Principal Investigator. $181,813.

“Cancer Biomedical Informatics (caBIG) Vocabularies and Common Data Elements Workspace (VCDE),” National Cancer Institute. January 2011 – April 2011. Role: Principal Investigator. $3,500.

“Cancer Biomedical Informatics (caBIG) Vocabularies and Common Data Elements Workspace (VCDE),” National Cancer Institute.  July 2010 – April 2011. Role: Principal Investigator. $36,500.

“Cancer Biomedical Informatics (caBIG) Population Science (PopSci),” National Cancer Institute. July 2010 – January 2011. Role: Principal Investigator. $8,500.

“Cancer Biomedical Informatics (caBIG) Population Science (PopSci),” National Cancer Institute. February 2009 – June 2010. Role: Principal Investigator. $20,825.

“Cancer Biomedical Informatics (caBIG) Vocabularies and Common Data Elements Workspace (VCDE),” National Cancer Institute. February 2009 – June 2010. Role: Principal Investigator. $78,532.

“Cancer Biomedical Informatics (caBIG) Vocabularies and Common Data Elements Workspace (VCDE),” National Cancer Institute. March 2008 – March 2009. Role: Principal Investigator. $60,062.

“Representing Cancer Knowledge by Using Ontology – Applying Ontology to Integration of Prostate Cancer Data Systems,” Institutional Research Grant, American Cancer Society. May 2007 – May 2008. Role: Principal Investigator. $20,000.

 

Affiliations

Degrees

  • NLM Fellow, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA,
  • PhD, Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
  • MS, Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
  • MB, Medicine, Southeast University Medical School, Nanjing, P.R. China