Publications
Publications
Aize Cao, Arielle M. Fisher, Russell E. Poland, Todd Gary, Jeffrey L. Schnipper, Kenneth Sands. Racial and ethnic disparities in mortality and readmission among COVID-19 hospitalized patients. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 36(1), 115-143, 2025.
Qingguo Wang, Vibhuti Gupta, Aize Cao, Pandu Gangula, Hua Xie, Rajbir Singh, Todd Gary, Samuel E. Adunyah, Aramandla Ramesh, Anil Shanker. Enhancing data science and genomics capacity of a historically Black medical college through interdisciplinary training and collaborations. Bioengineering, 2024 Oct 18;7(4):425–432. doi: 10.26502/jbb.2642-91280166.
Qingguo Wang, Vibhuti Gupta, Aize Cao, Ashutosh Singhal, Todd Gary, and Samuel E. Adunyah. A case study of enhancing the data science capacity of an RCMI program at a historically black medical college. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20, 4775, 2024.
Bing-Yan Wang, Aize Cao, Meng-Hsuan Ho, Derek Wilus, Sally Sheng, Hsiu-Wan Meng, Elissa Guerra, Jianming Hong, and Hua Xie. Identification of microbiological factors associated with periodontal health disparities, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. Feb 16, 2023, 13:1137067
Jejo D. Koola, Sam B. Ho, Aize Cao, Guanhua Chen, Amy M. Perkins, Sharon E. Davis, Michael Matheny. Prediction 30 day hospital readmission risk in a national cohort of patient with cirrhosis. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, (65), 1003-1031, 2020.
Fern FitzHenry, Svetlana K. Eden, Jason Denton, Hui Cao, Aize Cao, Ruth Reeves, Guanhua Chen, Glenn Gobbel, Nancy Wells, and Michael Matheny, ‘Prevalence and risk factors for opioid-induced constipation in an older national veteran cohort’, Pain Research and Management, 2020.
Jejo D. Koola, Sam B. Ho, Aize Cao, Guanhua Chen, Amy M. Perkins, Sharon E. Davis, Michael Matheny, ‘Development of a national Department of Veterans Affairs mortality risk prediction model among patients with cirrhosis’, BMJ Open Gastro 2019.
Kristine E. Lynch, Stephen A. Deppend, Scott L. DuVall, Benjamin Viernes, Aize Cao, Daniel park, Elizabeth Henchrow, Kushan Hewa, Michael Matheny, ‘Incrementally transforming electronic medical records into the OMOP common data model: A multidimensional quality assurance approach’, Applied Clinical Informatics, 2019 10(5), 794-803
Sunil Kripalani, Guanhua Chen, Philip Ciampa, Cecelia Theobalk, Aize Cao, Megan McBride, Robert S. Dittus, ‘A transition care coordinator model reduces hospital readmissions and costs’, Contemporary Clinical Trials, 2019, June, 81:55-61.
Joseph Boyle, Ted Speroff, Katie Worley, Aize Cao, Kathryn Goggins, Robert S. Dittus, Sunil Kripalani, ‘Low health literacy is associated with increased transitional care needs in hospitalized patients’, Journal of Hospital Medicine, 12(11): 918-924, 2017
Jacqueline A. Clauss, April I. Seay, Ross M.Vanderklok, Suzanne N. Avery, Aize Cao, Ronald L. Cowan, Margaret M. Benningfield, and Jennifer U. Blackford, ‘Structural and functional bases of inhibited temperament’, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Advance Access, 9: 2049-2058, 2014.
Xulei Yang, Aize Cao, Qing Song, Gerald Schaefer, Yi Su, ‘Vicinal support vector classifier using supervised kernel-based clustering’, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 60(3): 189-196, 2014.
Carissa J Cascio, Jennifer H Foss-Feig, Jessica Heacock, Kimberly B Schauder, Whitney A Loring, Baxter P Rogers, Jennifer R Pryweller, Cassandra R Newsom, Jurnell Cockhren, Aize Cao, Scott Bolton, ‘Affective neural response to restricted interests in autism spectrum disorders’, Journal Child Psychol Psychiatry, 2014, 7:55(2): 162-71
Evonne J. Charboneau, Mary S. Dietrich, S. Park, Aize Cao, Tristan J. Watkins, Jennifer U. Blackford, Margaret M. Benningfield, Peter R. Martin, Maciej S. Buchowski, Ronald L. Cowan, ‘Cannabis cue-induced brain activation correlates with drug craving in limbic and visual salience regions: preliminary results’, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 214(2): 122-131, 2013
Tristan J Watkins, Vidya Raj, Junghee Lee, Mary S Dietrich, Aize Cao, Jennifer U Blackford, Ronald M Salomon, Sohee Park, Margaret M Benningfield, Christina R Di Iorio, Ronald L Cowan, ‘Human ecstasy (MDMA) polydrug users have altered brain activation during semantic processing’, Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2013, 227(1): 41-54.
Laurie E.Cutting, Amy C.Stephens, K.R.Pugh, Scott Burns, Aize Cao, G.J.J.Pekar, Nicole Davis, and Shryl L.Rimrodt, ‘Not all reading disabilities are dyslexia: distinct neurobiology of specific comprehension deficits’, Brain Connectivity, 3(2):199-211, 2013.
Carissa Cassio, Jennifer Foss Feig, Ronald Cowan, Margaret Benningfield, Baxter Rogers, Aize Cao, ‘Response of neural reward regions to food cues in autism spectrum disorders’, Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 4(1), 2012.
Christina R. DiIorio, T.J. Watkins, Mary S. Dietrich, Aize Cao, Jennifer U. Blackford, Baxter Rogers, Mohammed S. Ansari, Ronald M. Baldwin, Rui Li, Robert M. Kessler, Ronald M. Salomon, Margaret Benningfield, Ronald Cowan, ‘Evidence for chronically altered serotonin function in the cerebral cortex of femal 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine polydrug users’, Archives of General Psychiatry, 69(4): 399-409, 2012.
L. Bauernfeind, M.S Dietrich, J.Blackford, E. J. Charboneau, J. G. Lillevig, C.M.Cannistraci, N.D.Woodward, Aize Cao, Ronald L. Cowan, ‘Human ecstasy use is associated with increased cortical excitability: an fMRI study’, Neuropsychopharmacology, pp. 1127-1141, 2011.
P. Dumpuri, R. C. Thompson, Aize Cao, S. Ding, I. Garg, B. M. Dawant, M. I. Miga, ‘A fast and efficient method to compensate for brain shift during surgery’, IEEE Trans. On Biomedical Engineering, Vol.57, No.6, pp. 1285-1296, 2010.
X. L. Yang, Q. Song and Aize Cao, ‘A novel pruning approach for robust data clustering’, Neural Computing and Applications, Vol. 18, pp 759-768, 2009.
S. Ding, M. I. Miga, J. H. Noble, Aize Cao, P. Dumpuri, R. C. Thompson, B. M.Dawant, ‘Semi-automatic registration of pre- and post-resection laser range scanner images’, IEEE Trans. On Biomedical Engineering (TBME), Vol. 56, pp 770-780, 2009.
Aize Cao, R. C. Thompson, P. Dumpuri, B. M. Dawant, S. Ding, and M. I. Miga, ‘Laser range scanning for image-guided neurosurgery: Investigation of image-to-physical space registrations’, Medical Physics, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 1593-1605, 2008.
Aize Cao, Q. Song, and X. L. Yang, ‘Robust information clustering for automatic breast mass detection in digitized mammograms’, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 109, pp. 86-96, 2008.
XuLei Yang, Qing Song, Yue Wang, Aize Cao, Yi-Lei Wu, ‘A modified deterministic annealing algorithm for robust image segmentation’, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. 01/2008; 30:308-324
P. Dumpuri, R. C. Thompson, B. M. Dawant, Aize Cao, M. I. Miga, ‘An atlas-based method to compensate for brain shift: Preliminary results’, Medical Image Analysis, Vol.11, No. 2, pp.128-145, 2007
X. L. Yang, Aize Cao, Q.Song, ‘A new cluster validity for data clustering’, Neural Processing Letters, , 2007
Uma Sarder, Aize Cao. Comparing the risk of chronic heart failure in Black and White women with substance use disorders. AMIA Annual Symposium, San Francisco, November 2024.
Aize Cao, Kiah Mayo, Todd Gary, Lloyda B. Williamson. Early onset of substance use in pregnant and postpartum women from underserved population: a call for targeted interventions. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo, Minneapolis, October 2024
Shaghayegh Chavoshian, Aize Cao, Shumit Saha. Effect of beta-blockers on sleep efficiency. AIM-AHEAD AI for Health Equity Symposium, Atlanta, August 2024.
Bishnu Sarker, Fuxue Xin, Micaiah McDonald, Aize Cao. A natural language processing pipeline for identification of housing conditions from clinical notes. AIM-AHEAD AI for Health Equity Symposium, Atlanta, August 2024.
Aize Cao, Kiah Mayo, Todd Gary, Lloyda B. Williamson, "Understanding AMA discharges: characteristics and risk factors among pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders", late-breaking abstract, AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Baltimore, June 2024.
Clarence White, Uma Sarder, Lloyda B. Williamson, Aize Cao, "Racial and mental health disparities in substance use disorder patients through NIH All of Us data", RCMI annual conference, DC, March 2024
Lloyda B. Williamson, Wajehah Sanders, Aize Cao, Racial differences among pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorder in residential treatment at a HBCU academic mental health center. Black Psychiatrists of American (BPA) conference. 2023.
Aize Cao, Arielle Fisher, Russell Poland, Todd Gary. (2022) Developing a risk prediction model for 30-Day readmission after hospitalization from COVID-19. AMIA Annual Symposium. 2022.
Aize Cao, Arielle Fisher, Russell Poland, Todd Gary. Influence of race/ethnicity and a substance use disorder on 30-day readmission rates in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. IAPHS conference, panel discussion. 2022.
Aize Cao, Liam Rose, Todd H. Wagner, Sharidan K. Parr, Kristine E. Lynch, Scott L. DuVall, Michael E. Matheny, ‘Conversion of national Veteran Affair health cost data into the OMOP CDM: Preliminary Transformation’, OHDSI, 2020
Kristin de Groot, Aize Cao, Qiuying Lucy Zhang, Denis M. Hynes, Donghui Kan, Amanda Talor, Linda Kok, Fern FitzHenry, Scott L. DuVall, Mari Souden, Michael Matheny, ‘Transforming Medicare Research Identifiable Files (RIF) into the OMOP common data model’, OHDSI, 2018
Aize Cao, Margaret Gonsoulin, Kristin de Groot, Elizabeth Hanchrow, Daniel Park, Kristine Lynch, Denise Hynes, Scott L. DuVall, Michael E. Matheny, Stephen A. Deppen, ‘Quality assurance of demographics consistency between Veterans Affairs and Medicare data’, OHDSI, 2017
Jejo Koola, Aize Cao, G. Chen, Amy Perkins, Samuel B. Ho, Sharon Davis, Michael Matheny, ‘Machine learning models to predict readmission for patients with cirrhosis’, AMIA, 2017
Jejo Koola, G. Chen, Amy Perkins, Aize Cao, John Denver, Michael Matheny, Samuel B. Ho, ‘Algorithm for identification of patients at high risk for cirrhosis from administrative data’, AASLD, 2017
Jejo Koola, Aize Cao, Amy M. Perkins, Guanhua Chen, Samuel B. Ho, Michael E. Matheny, ‘Post-discharge mortality in a national cohort of Veterans Affairs patients with cirrhosis’, American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, Boston, 2016
Fern Fitzhenry, Svetlana K. Eden, Jason Denton, Robert J. LoCasale, Hui Cao, Aize Cao, Ruth Reeves, Nancy Wells, Michael Matheny, ‘Informatics challenges in working with “big data” – a use case in identifying predictors of constipation’, AMIA, Pittsburgh, 2016
A. Cao, M. I. Miga, P. Dumpuri, S. Ding, B. M. Dawant, R. C. Thompson, 'Target error for image-to-physical space registration: Preliminary clinical results using laser range scanning', Medical Imaging 2007: Visualization and Image-Guided Procedures: Proc. of SPIE, 2007
A. Cao, P. Dumpuri, and M. I. Miga, 'Tracking cortical surface deformations based on vessel structure using a laser range scanner', International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2006
XuLei Yang, Aize Cao, Qing Song: Image segmentation by deterministic annealing algorithm with adaptive spatial constraints. ISNN (2) 2006: 504-510
XuLei Yang, Qing Song, Aize Cao, Sheng Liu, Chengyi Guo:Robust c-shells based deterministic annealing clustering algorithm. FUZZ-IEEE 2004: 1413-1417
Aize Cao, Qing Song, XuLei Yang, Lei Wang. Breast mass segmentation based on information theory. ICPR (3) 2004: 758-761
Aize Cao, Qing Song, XuLei Yang, Sheng Liu:Breast Mass Segmentation on Digital mammograms by a Combined Deterministic Annealing Method. ISBI 2004: 1303-1306
Aize Cao, Patient characteristics of pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders: insight from a residential treatment program and the NIH All of Us initiative. Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS) Friday Seminar, Sep 6, 2024.
Aize Cao, Institutional Review Board, Meharry Annual Regulatory Affairs Research Symposium, November 2023
Aize Cao, Racial differences among pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders in residential treatment at a HBCU academic mental health center, Black Psychiatrists of America, March 2023
Aize Cao, Evidence based racial and ethnic disparity studies, The University of Health Science Center for Biomedical Informatics (UTHSC CBMI) Lecture Series in Population and Precision Health, January 2023.
Jennifer U. Blackford, Aize Cao, Amygdala volume and shape, Vanderbilt VUIIS Neuroimaging Seminar, April 2011
Aize Cao, Reducing head movement during fMRI using real-time feedback training in the mock scanner, Vanderbilt VUIIS Neuroimaging Seminar, Oct 2010