Michael Halper
Chair, Ying Wu College of Computing
- michael.halper@njit.edu
- 973-596-5752
- 3803 Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC)
Education
B.S.; New Jersey Institute of Technology
M.S.; Fairleigh Dickinson University
Ph.D.; New Jersey Institute of Technology
Website
2026 Fall Courses
IS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN INFO
IS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
IT 114 - ADV PROGRAM FOR INFOR TECH
IS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
IS 491 - SENIOR PROJECT - IS
IS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
IS 489 - INFO UNDERGRAD THESIS RESEARCH
IS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
IS 776 - IS RESEARCH STUDY
IS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
IT 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
IS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
Past Courses
IT 101: INTRO TO INFORMTN TECHNOLGY
IT 102: ADVANCED PROGRAMMING FOR IT
IT 114: ADV PROGRAM FOR INFOR TECH
IT 114: ADVANCED PROGRAMMING FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Conference Proceeding
"Using Dependency Injection for the Singleton Design Pattern in Android Apps"
Proceedings of SIGITE 2024 (ACM), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2024.
Proceedings of SIGITE 2024 (ACM), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2024.
"Deep Learning in the IT curriculum"
Proceedings of SIGITE 2019 (ACM), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2019.
Proceedings of SIGITE 2019 (ACM), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2019.
"Quality assurance of concept roles in the National Cancer Institute thesaurus"
Proceedings of the BIBM'18 1st Int'l Workshop on Quality Assurance of Biological and Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies, December, 2018.
Proceedings of the BIBM'18 1st Int'l Workshop on Quality Assurance of Biological and Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies, December, 2018.
"Using convolutional neural networks to support insertion of new concepts into SNOMED CT"
Proceedings of the 2018 AMIA Annual Symposium, November, 2018.
Proceedings of the 2018 AMIA Annual Symposium, November, 2018.
"Quality Assurance of Ontology Content Reuse"
8th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018), August, 2018.
8th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018), August, 2018.
"Summarizing an ontology: a "big knowledge" coverage approach"
MedInfo, August, 2017.
MedInfo, August, 2017.
"A Quality-Assurance Study of ChEBI"
International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016), August, 2016.
International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016), August, 2016.
"The Big Knowledge to Use (BK2U) Challenge"
Data Science, Learning, and Applications to Biomedical and Health Sciences, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2016.
Data Science, Learning, and Applications to Biomedical and Health Sciences, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2016.
"Gene Ontology Summarization to Support Visualization and Quality Assurance"
BICoB 6th international conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, March, 2015.
BICoB 6th international conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, March, 2015.
"Using Android as a platform for programming in the IT curriculum"
Proceedings of SIGITE 2014 (ACM), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2014.
Proceedings of SIGITE 2014 (ACM), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2014.
"A family-based framework for supporting quality assurance of biomedical ontologies in BioPortal"
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, November, 2013.
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, November, 2013.
"Scalability of abstraction-network-based quality assurance to large SNOMED hierarchies"
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, November, 2013.
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, November, 2013.
"Choosing the Granularity of Abstraction Networks for Orientation and Quality Assurance of the Sleep Domain Ontology"
4th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology ICBO 2013, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2013.
4th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology ICBO 2013, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2013.
"Deriving an Abstraction Network to Support Quality Assurance in OCRe"
Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Meeting, November, 2012.
Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Meeting, November, 2012.
"Clinical clarity versus terminological order -- the readiness of SNOMED CT concept descriptors for primary care"
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Managing Interoperability and Complexity in Health Systems (MIXHS'12), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2012.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Managing Interoperability and Complexity in Health Systems (MIXHS'12), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2012.
"Questionable relationship triples in the UMLS"
Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2012), January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2012.
Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2012), January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2012.
"Using SNOMED semantic concept groupings to enhance semantic-type assignment consistency in the UMLS"
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2012), January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2012.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2012), January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2012.
"Auditing hierarchical cycles to locate other inconsistencies in the UMLS"
AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2011.
AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2011.
"Multimedia-based visual programming promoting core competencies in IT education"
Proceedings of SIGITE 2011 (ACM), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2011.
Proceedings of SIGITE 2011 (ACM), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2011.
"Auditing SNOMED Integration into the UMLS for Duplicate Concepts"
American Medical Informatics Association Annu Symp Proc, November, 2010.
American Medical Informatics Association Annu Symp Proc, November, 2010.
"Dissimilarities in the logical modeling of apparently similar concepts in SNOMED CT"
American Medical Informatics Association Annu Symp Proc, November, 2010.
American Medical Informatics Association Annu Symp Proc, November, 2010.
Journal Article
Michael H. Halper, Larisa Soldatova Soldatova, Matthias Brochhausen, Fatima S. Maikore, Christopher Ochs, Yehoshua Perl. 2023. "Guidelines for the Reuse of Ontology Content." Applied Ontology, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 5-29.
Ling Zheng, Yan Chen, Hua Min, P Lloyd Hildebrand, Hao Liu, Michael H. Halper, James Geller, Sherri deCoronado, Yehoshua Perl. 2020. "Missing lateral relationships in top-level concepts of an ontology." BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol. 20, no. 305.
Hasan Yumak, Ling Zheng, Ling Chen, Michael H. Halper, Yehoshua Perl, Gareth Owen. 2019. "Quality assurance of complex ChEBI concepts based on number of relationship types." Applied Ontology/IOSpress, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 199-214.
Michael H. Halper, Yehoshua Perl, Christopher Ochs, Ling Zheng. 2017. "Taxonomy-based approaches to quality assurance of ontologies." Journal of Healthcare Engineering, vol. 2017, pp. 11.
Hua Min, Ling Zheng, Yehoshua Perl, Michael H. Halper, Sherri de Coronado, Christopher Ochs. 2017. "Relating complexity and error rates of ontology concepts: more complex NCIt concepts have more errors." Methods of Information in Medicine, vol. 56, no. 3.
Yehoshua Perl, James Geller, Michael H. Halper, Christopher Ochs, Ling Zheng, Joan Kapusnik-Uner. 2017. "Introducing the Big Knowledge to Use (BK2U) challenge." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1387, pp. 12-24.
Christopher Ochs, Yehoshua Perl, Michael H. Halper, James Geller, Janet Lomax. 2016. "Quality assurance of the Gene Ontology using Abstraction Networks." Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, vol. 14, no. 3.
Huanying Gu, Yan Chen, Zhe He, Michael H. Halper, Ling Chen. 2016. "Quality assurance of UMLS semantic type assignments using SNOMED CT hierarchies." Methods of Information in Medicine, vol. 55, no. 2.
Duo Wei, Huanying Gu, Yehoshua Perl, Michael H. Halper, Christopher Ochs, Gai Elhanan, Yan Chen. 2015. "Structural measures to track the evolution of SNOMED CT hierarchies." Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 57, pp. 278-287.
Duo Wei, Huanying Gu, Yehoshua Perl, Michael H. Halper, Christopher Ochs, Guy Elhanan, Yan Chen. 2015. "Structural measures to track the evolution of SNOMED CT hierarchies." J Biomed Informatics, vol. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.08.001. [Epub ahead of print].
Michael H. Halper, Huanying Gu, Yehoshua Perl, Christopher Ochs. 2015. "Abstraction networks for terminologies: Supporting management of big knowledge." Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 1-16.
Huanying Gu, Yan Chen, Zhe He, Michael H. Halper, Ling Chen. 2015. "Quality assurance of UMLS semantic type assignments using SNOMED CT hierarchies." Methods of Information in Medicine, vol. dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME14-01-0104 [Epub ahead of print].
Ankur Agrawal, Zhe He, Yehoshua Perl, Duo Wei, Michael H. Halper, Gai Elhanan, Yan Chen. 2013. "The readiness of SNOMED problem list concepts for meaningful use of electronic health records.." Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 73-80.
C. P. Morrey, Yehoshua Perl, Michael H. Halper, Ling Chen, Huanying Gu. 2012. "A chemical specialty semantic network for the Unified Medical Language System." Journal of Cheminformatics, vol. 4:9.
Yue Wang, Michael H. Halper, Duo Wei, Yehoshua Perl, James Geller. 2012. "Abstraction of complex concepts with a refined partial-area taxonomy of SNOMED." Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 15-29.
Yue Wang, Michael H. Halper, Duo Wei, Yehoshua Perl, James Geller. 2012. "Abstraction of complex concepts with a refined partial-area taxonomy of SNOMED." Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 15-29.
Kuo-chuan Huang, James Geller, Michael H. Halper, Gai Elhanan, Yehoshua Perl. 2011. "Scalability of piecewise synonym identification in integration of SNOMED into the UMLS." International Journal of Computational Models and Algorithms in Medicine, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 26-45.
C P Morrey, Ling Chen, Michael H. Halper, Yehoshua Perl. 2011. "Resolution of redundant semantic type assignments for organic chemicals in the UMLS." Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 141-151.
Huanying Gu, Yehoshua Perl, Michael H. Halper, James Geller, Erich J. Neuhold. 2004. "Contextual partitioning for comprehension of OODB schemas." Knowledge and Information Systems, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 315-344.
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US9286381B2, 2016.
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Professional
SIGITE Annual IT Chairs/Directors Meeting
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