Ricky Kiyotaka Taira
Professor-in-Residence, Radiological Sciences, University of California Los Angeles
rtaira@mii.ucla.edu
310-794-3535
924 Westwood Blvd Suite 420
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Affiliations
Member, CTSI, Medical Informatics GPB Home Area
Biography
Dr. Ricky Taira obtained his Bachelors degree in electrical engineering in 1982, and went on to receive a PhD in biomedical physics in 1988 from UCLA. He is now a Professor in the Department of Radiological Sciences at UCLAs David Geffen School of Medicine Dr. Taira is part of the UCLA Medical Imaging Informatics Group, and is the lead scientist for the mi2 Group. His past research interests have included development of picture archive and communication systems (PACS), medical knowledge bases (the KMeD project), and currently, natural language processing (NLP) of medical corpora and formal ontological representations of disease entities. He is the co-PI and investigator of several NIH-funded grants. Dr. Taira teaches the Medical Knowledge Representation class that is part of the NLM training program in imaging-based medical informatics.
Publications
- Ogunyemi OI, Gandhi M, Lee M, Teklehaimanot S, Daskivich LP, Hindman D, Lopez K, Taira RK. Detecting diabetic retinopathy through machine learning on electronic health record data from an urban, safety net healthcare system.. JAMIA open, 2021.
- Garcia-Gathright JI, Matiasz NJ, Adame C, Sarma KV, Sauer L, Smedley NF, Spiegel ML, Strunck J, Garon EB, Taira RK, Aberle DR, Bui AAT. Evaluating Casama: Contextualized semantic maps for summarization of lung cancer studies.. Computers in biology and medicine, 2017.
- Tong M, Hsu W, Taira RK. Evaluating a Novel Summary Visualization for Clinical Trial Reports: A Usability Study.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2017.
- Morioka C, Meng F, Taira R, Sayre J, Zimmerman P, Ishimitsu D, Huang J, Shen L, El-Saden S. Automatic Classification of Ultrasound Screening Examinations of the Abdominal Aorta.. Journal of digital imaging, 2016.
- Rios Piedra EA, Taira RK, El-Saden S, Ellingson BM, Bui AAT, Hsu W. Assessing Variability in Brain Tumor Segmentation to Improve Volumetric Accuracy and Characterization of Change.. ... IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics. IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2016.
- Garcia-Gathright JI, Matiasz NJ, Garon EB, Aberle DR, Taira RK, Bui AAT. Toward patient-tailored summarization of lung cancer literature.. ... IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics. IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2016.
- Hsu W, El-Saden S, Taira RK. Medical Imaging Informatics.. Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2016.
- Bui AA, Hsu W, Arnold C, El-Saden S, Aberle DR, Taira RK. Imaging-based observational databases for clinical problem solving: the role of informatics.. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2013.
- Arnold CW, McNamara M, El-Saden S, Chen S, Taira RK, Bui AA. Imaging informatics for consumer health: towards a radiology patient portal.. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2013.
- Tong M, Hsu W, Taira RK. A formal representation for numerical data presented in published clinical trial reports.. Studies in health technology and informatics, 2013.
- Taira RK, Arnold CW. Hierarchical semantic structures for medical NLP.. Studies in health technology and informatics, 2013.
- Hsu W, Speier W, Taira RK. Automated extraction of reported statistical analyses: towards a logical representation of clinical trial literature.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2012.
- Tong M, Taira RK. Improving the accuracy of therapy descriptions in clinical trials using a bottom-up approach.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2012.
- Hsu W, Taira RK, El-Saden S, Kangarloo H, Bui AA. Context-based electronic health record: toward patient specific healthcare.. IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2012.
- Speier W, Arnold C, Lu J, Taira RK, Pouratian N. Natural language processing with dynamic classification improves P300 speller accuracy and bit rate.. Journal of neural engineering, 2011.
- Hsu W, Taira RK, Vi?uela F, Bui AA. A Case-based Retrieval System using Natural Language Processing and Population-based Visualization.. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging and Systems Biology, 2011.
- Arnold CW, El-Saden SM, Bui AA, Taira R. Clinical Case-based Retrieval Using Latent Topic Analysis.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2010.
- Hsu W, Taira RK. Tools for improving the characterization and visualization of changes in neuro-oncology patients.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2010.
- Hsu W, Arnold CW, Taira RK. A Neuro-Oncology Workstation for Structuring, Modeling, and Visualizing Patient Records.. IHI ... : proceedings of the ... ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium. ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, 2010.
- Bashyam V, Hsu W, Watt E, Bui AA, Kangarloo H, Taira RK. Problem-centric organization and visualization of patient imaging and clinical data.. Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc, 2009.
- Taira RK, Taira R, Bui A, Bui AA, Hsu W, Bashyam V, Dube S, Watt E, Andrada L, El-Saden S, Cloughesy T, Kangarloo H. A tool for improving the longitudinal imaging characterization for neuro-oncology cases.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2008.
- Son RY, Taira RK, Kangarloo H, Cárdenas AF. Context-sensitive correlation of implicitly related data: an episode creation methodology.. IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008.
- Taira RK, Bashyam V, Kangarloo H. A field theoretical approach to medical natural language processing.. IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007.
- Bashyam V, Divita G, Bennett DB, Browne AC, Taira RK. A normalized lexical lookup approach to identifying UMLS concepts in free text.. Studies in health technology and informatics, 2007.
- Bashyam V, Morioka C, El-Saden S, Bui AA, Taira RK. Identifying relevant medical reports from an assorted report collection using the multinomial na�ve Bayes classifier and the UMLS.. Indian journal of medical informatics, 2007.
- Bui AA, Morioka C, Dionisio JD, Johnson DB, Sinha U, Ardekani S, Taira RK, Aberle DR, El-Saden S, Kangarloo H. OpenSourcePACS: an extensible infrastructure for medical image management.. IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007.
- Meng F, Taira RK, Bui AA, Kangarloo H, Churchill BM. Automatic generation of repeated patient information for tailoring clinical notes.. International journal of medical informatics, 2005.
- Bashyam V, Taira RK. A study of lexical behaviour of sentences in chest radiology reports.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2005.
- Meng F, D'Avolio LW, Chen AA, Taira RK, Kangarloo H. Generating models of surgical procedures using UMLS concepts and multiple sequence alignment.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2005.
- Bashyam V, Taira RK. Indexing anatomical phrases in neuro-radiology reports to the UMLS 2005AA.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2005.
- Cho PS, Taira RK, Kangarloo H. Syntactic parsing of medical reports using evolutionary optimization.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2005.
- Bui AA, Taira RK, El-Saden S, Dordoni A, Aberle DR. Automated medical problem list generation: towards a patient timeline.. Studies in health technology and informatics, 2004.
- Meng F, Taira RK, Bui AA, Kangarloo H, Churchill BM. Automatic generation of repeated patient information for tailoring clinical notes.. Studies in health technology and informatics, 2004.
- Bui AA, Taira RK, Goldman D, Dionisio JD, Aberle DR, El-Saden S, Sayre J, Rice T, Kangarloo H. Effect of an imaging-based streamlined electronic healthcare process on quality and costs.. Academic radiology, 2004.
- Son RY, Taira RK, Kangarloo H. Inter-document coreference resolution of abnormal findings in radiology documents.. Studies in health technology and informatics, 2004.
- Cho PS, Taira RK, Kangarloo H. Automatic section segmentation of medical reports.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2003.
- Sinha U, Bui A, Taira R, Dionisio J, Morioka C, Johnson D, Kangarloo H. A review of medical imaging informatics.. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2002.
- Bui AA, Taira RK, Churchill B, Kangarloo H. Integrated visualization of problemcentric urologic patient records.. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2002.
- Morioka CA, Sinha U, Taira R, el-Saden S, Duckwiler G, Kangarloo H. Structured reporting in neuroradiology.. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2002.
- Bui AA, Dionisio JD, Morioka CA, Sinha U, Taira RK, Kangarloo H. DataServer: an infrastructure to support evidence-based radiology.. Academic radiology, 2002.
- Bui AA, Taira RK, Dionisio JD, Aberle DR, El-Saden S, Kangarloo H. Evidence-based radiology: requirements for electronic access.. Academic radiology, 2002.
- Son RY, Taira RK, Bui AA, Kangarloo H, Cardenas AF. A context-sensitive methodology for automatic episode creation.. Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2002.
- Taira RK, Bui AA, Kangarloo H. Identification of patient name references within medical documents using semantic selectional restrictions.. Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2002.