Alex Bui, Ph.D.

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A Short Biography:

Dr. Alex Bui is a Professor in the Department of Radiological Sciences at UCLA. He obtained his PhD degree from UCLA in computer science in 2000. Dr. Bui is part of the UCLA Medical Imaging Informatics Group, with research interests focusing on distributed information architectures for biomedical research and clinical environments, probabilistic data modeling, and visualization of medical information. He is the project leader and principal investigator of various NIH and NSF research grants; has served as a reviewer for several NIH committees; and is the Director for the UCLA NIH/NLM training program in medical informatics. Dr. Bui is a member of the UCLA Biomedical Engineering (BME) IDP, Wireless Health Institute (WHI) and the Center for Domain-specific Computing (CDSC).
Work Titles
CTSI Member, CTSI Investigator, Biomedical Informatics Program of UCLA CTSI
UCLA Professor, Radiology Member, Bioinformatics GPB Home Area Member, Medical Informatics GPB Home Area Affiliated Faculty, Bioengineering
Education:
Degrees:
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1995 - 2000
M.S., University of California, Los Angeles, 1995 - 1998
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1991 - 1995

Contact Information:

Email Address:

buia@mii.ucla.edu


Website:

http://www.mii.ucla.edu

Work Phone Number:

310-794-3540

Mailing Address:

UCLA Radiol Sci
BOX 956916, 924 Wstwd Blvd, Ste 420
Los Angeles, CA 90095


Work Address:

Laboratory
Bank of America Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095


Publications:

A selected list of publications:

Singleton Kyle W, Hsu William, Bui Alex A T   Comparing predictive models of glioblastoma multiforme built using multi-institutional and local data sources AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2012; 2012: 1385-92.
Hsu William, Taira Ricky K, El-Saden Suzie, Kangarloo Hooshang, Bui Alex A T   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; 16(2): 228-34.
Suh Myung-kyung, Moin Tannaz, Woodbridge Jonathan, Lan Mars, Ghasemzadeh Hassan, Bui Alex, Ahmadi Sheila, Sarrafzadeh Majid   Dynamic self-adaptive remote health monitoring system for diabetics Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, 2012; 2012: 2223-6.
Woodbridge Jonathan, Mortazavi Bobak, Bui Alex A T, Sarrafzadeh Majid   High performance biomedical time series indexes using salient segmentation Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, 2012; 2012: 5086-9.
Au Lawrence K, Bui Alex A T, Batalin Maxim A, Xu Xiaoyu, Kaiser William J   CARER: efficient dynamic sensing for continuous activity monitoring Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, 2011; 2011(2): 2228-32.
Suh Myung-kyung, Woodbridge Jonathan, Lan Mars, Bui Alex, Evangelista Lorraine S, Sarrafzadeh Majid   Missing data imputation for remote CHF patient monitoring systems Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, 2011; 2011(2): 3184-7.
Singleton Kyle W, Lan Mars, Arnold Corey, Vahidi Mani, Arangua Lisa, Gelberg Lillian, Bui Alex A T   Wireless data collection of self-administered surveys using tablet computers AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2011; 2011(2): 1261-9.
Arnold Corey W, El-Saden Suzie M, Bui Alex A T, Taira Ricky   Clinical Case-based Retrieval Using Latent Topic Analysis AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2010; 2010(2): 26-30.
Au Lawrence K, Batalin Maxim A, Stathopoulos Thanos, Bui Alex A T, Kaiser William J   Episodic sampling: towards energy-efficient patient monitoring with wearable sensors Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, 2009; 2009(2): 6901-5.
Bashyam Vijayaraghavan, Hsu William, Watt Emily, Bui Alex A T, Kangarloo Hooshang, Taira Ricky K   Problem-centric organization and visualization of patient imaging and clinical data Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc, 2009; 29(2): 331-43.
Iglesias Juan Eugenio, Rocks Krupa, Jahanshad Neda, Frias-Martinez Enrique, Andrada Lewellyn P, Bui Alex A T   Tracking medication information across medical records AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2009; 2009: 266-70.
Morioka Craig A, El-Saden Suzie, Pope Whitney, Sayre James, Duckwiler Gary, Meng Frank, Bui Alex, Kangarloo Hooshang   A methodology to integrate clinical data for the efficient assessment of brain-tumor patients Informatics for health & social care, 2008; 33(1): 55-68.
Taira Ricky K, Taira Ricky, Bui Alex, Bui Alex At, Hsu William, Bashyam Vijayaraghavan, Dube Shishir, Watt Emily, Andrada Lewellyn, El-Saden Suzie, Cloughesy Timothy, Kangarloo Hooshang   A tool for improving the longitudinal imaging characterization for neuro-oncology cases AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2008; 128(6): 712-6.
Watt Emily W, Watt Emily, Bui Alex A T, Bui Alex At   Evaluation of a dynamic bayesian belief network to predict osteoarthritic knee pain using data from the osteoarthritis initiative AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2008; 2009(2): 788-92.
D'Avolio Leonard W, Litwin Mark S, Rogers Selwyn O, Bui Alex A T   Facilitating Clinical Outcomes Assessment through the automated identification of quality measures for prostate cancer surgery Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2008; 15(3): 341-8.
Wu Winston H, Bui Alex A T, Batalin Maxim A, Au Lawrence K, Binney Jonathan D, Kaiser William J   MEDIC: medical embedded device for individualized care Artificial intelligence in medicine, 2008; 42(2): 137-52.
D'Avolio Leonard W, Bui Alex A T   The Clinical Outcomes Assessment Toolkit: a framework to support automated clinical records-based outcomes assessment and performance measurement research Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2008; 15(3): 333-40.
D'Avolio Leonard W, Litwin Mark S, Rogers Selwyn O, Bui Alex A T   Automatic identification and classification of surgical margin status from pathology reports following prostate cancer surgery AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2007; 42(2): 160-4.
Wu Winston H, Batalin Maxim A, Au Lawrence K, Bui Alex A T, Kaiser William J   Context-aware sensing of physiological signals Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, 2007; 2007(5): 5271-5.
Wu Winston H, Bui Alex A T, Batalin Maxim A, Liu Duo, Kaiser William J   Incremental diagnosis method for intelligent wearable sensor systems IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007; 11(5): 553-62.
Arnold Corey W, Bui Alex A T, Morioka Craig, El-Saden Suzie, Kangarloo Hooshang   Informatics in radiology: A prototype Web-based reporting system for onsite-offsite clinician communication Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc, 2007; 27(4): 1201-11.
Bui Alex A T, Morioka Craig, Dionisio John David N, Johnson David B, Sinha Usha, Ardekani Siamak, Taira Ricky K, Aberle Denise R, El-Saden Suzie, Kangarloo Hooshang   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; 11(1): 94-109.
Morioka Craig, Dionisio John David N, Bui Alex, El-Saden Suzie, Kangarloo Hooshang   StructConsult: structured real-time wet read consultation infrastructure to support patient care Studies in health technology and informatics, 2007; 129(Pt 1): 429-33.
Bui Alex A T, Aberle Denise R, Kangarloo Hooshang   TimeLine: visualizing integrated patient records IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007; 11(4): 462-73.
Hsu William, Bui Alex A T   A framework for visually querying a probabilistic model of tumor image features AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2006; 11(1): 354-8.
Meng Frank, Taira Ricky K, Bui Alex A T, Kangarloo Hooshang, Churchill Bernard M   Automatic generation of repeated patient information for tailoring clinical notes International journal of medical informatics, 2005; 74(7-8): 663-73.
Bui Alex A T, Taira Ricky K, El-Saden Suzie, Dordoni Alicia, Aberle Denise R   Automated medical problem list generation: towards a patient timeline Studies in health technology and informatics, 2004; 107(Pt 1): 587-91.
Meng Frank, Taira Ricky K, Bui Alex A T, Kangarloo Hooshang, Churchill Bernard M   Automatic generation of repeated patient information for tailoring clinical notes Studies in health technology and informatics, 2004; 107(Pt 1): 653-7.
Bui Alex A T, Taira Ricky K, Goldman Dana, Dionisio John David N, Aberle Denise R, El-Saden Suzie, Sayre James, Rice Thomas, Kangarloo Hooshang   Effect of an imaging-based streamlined electronic healthcare process on quality and costs Academic radiology, 2004; 11(1): 13-20.
Morioka Craig A, El-Saden Suzie, Duckwiler Gary, Zou Qinghua, Ying Rene, Bui Alex, Johnson David, Kangarloo Hooshang   Workflow management of HIS/RIS textual documents with PACS image studies for neuroradiology AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2003; 93(3): 475-9.
Son Roderick Y, Taira Ricky K, Bui Alex A T, Kangarloo Hooshang, Cardenas Alfonso F   A context-sensitive methodology for automatic episode creation Proceedings / AMIA ... Annual Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2002; 9(6): 707-11.
Sinha Usha, Bui Alex, Taira Ricky, Dionisio John, Morioka Craig, Johnson David, Kangarloo Hooshang   A review of medical imaging informatics Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2002; 980(3): 168-97.
Bui Alex A T, Weinger Gregory S, Barretta Susan J, Dionisio John David N, Kangarloo Hooshang   An XML Gateway to Patient Data for Medical Research Applications Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2002; 980(3): 236-46.
Bui Alex A T, Dionisio John David N, Morioka Craig A, Sinha Usha, Taira Ricky K, Kangarloo Hooshang   DataServer: an infrastructure to support evidence-based radiology Academic radiology, 2002; 9(6): 670-8.
Bui Alex A T, Taira Ricky K, Dionisio John David N, Aberle Denise R, El-Saden Suzie, Kangarloo Hooshang   Evidence-based radiology: requirements for electronic access Academic radiology, 2002; 9(6): 662-9.
Taira Ricky K, Bui Alex A T, Kangarloo Hooshang   Identification of patient name references within medical documents using semantic selectional restrictions Proceedings / AMIA ... Annual Symposium. AMIA Symposium, 2002; 9(6): 757-61.

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