Michael Halper
Michael Halper
Professor, Informatics
Interim Chair
Interim Chair
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; ;
M.S.; Fairleigh Dickinson University; ;
Ph.D.; New Jersey Institute of Technology; ;
Website
2024 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 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
IS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
IS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
IT 114 - ADV PROGRAM FOR INFOR TECH
IS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
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
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
IT 102: ADVANCED PROGRAMMING FOR IT
IT 114: ADV PROGRAM FOR INFOR TECH
IT 114: ADVANCED PROGRAMMING FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Journal Article
Zheng, Ling, & Chen, Yan, & Min, Hua, & Hildebrand, P Lloyd, & Liu, Hao, & Halper, Michael H., & Geller, James, & deCoronado, Sherri, & Perl, Yehoshua (2020). Missing lateral relationships in top-level concepts of an ontology. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 20(305),
Yumak, Hasan, & Zheng, Ling, & Chen, Ling, & Halper, Michael H., & Perl, Yehoshua, & Owen, Gareth (2019). Quality assurance of complex ChEBI concepts based on number of relationship types. Applied Ontology/IOSpress, 14(3), 199-214.
Halper, Michael H., & Perl, Yehoshua, & Ochs, Christopher, & Zheng, Ling (2017). Taxonomy-based approaches to quality assurance of ontologies. Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2017, 11.
Min, Hua, & Zheng, Ling, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Halper, Michael H., & de Coronado, Sherri, & Ochs, Christopher (2017). Relating complexity and error rates of ontology concepts: more complex NCIt concepts have more errors. Methods of Information in Medicine, 56(3),
Perl, Yehoshua, & Geller, James, & Halper, Michael H., & Ochs, Christopher, & Zheng, Ling, & Kapusnik-Uner, Joan (2017). Introducing the Big Knowledge to Use (BK2U) challenge. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1387, 12-24.
Yumak, Hasan, & Zheng, Ling, & Chen, Ling, & Halper, Michael H., & Perl, Yehoshua, & Owen, Gareth (2019). Quality assurance of complex ChEBI concepts based on number of relationship types. Applied Ontology/IOSpress, 14(3), 199-214.
Halper, Michael H., & Perl, Yehoshua, & Ochs, Christopher, & Zheng, Ling (2017). Taxonomy-based approaches to quality assurance of ontologies. Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2017, 11.
Min, Hua, & Zheng, Ling, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Halper, Michael H., & de Coronado, Sherri, & Ochs, Christopher (2017). Relating complexity and error rates of ontology concepts: more complex NCIt concepts have more errors. Methods of Information in Medicine, 56(3),
Perl, Yehoshua, & Geller, James, & Halper, Michael H., & Ochs, Christopher, & Zheng, Ling, & Kapusnik-Uner, Joan (2017). Introducing the Big Knowledge to Use (BK2U) challenge. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1387, 12-24.
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Ochs, Christopher, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Halper, Michael H., & Geller, James, & Lomax, Janet (2016). Quality assurance of the Gene Ontology using Abstraction Networks. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 14(3),
Gu, Huanying, & Chen, Yan, & He, Zhe, & Halper, Michael H., & Chen, Ling (2016). Quality assurance of UMLS semantic type assignments using SNOMED CT hierarchies. Methods of Information in Medicine, 55(2),
Wei, Duo, & Gu, Huanying, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Halper, Michael H., & Ochs, Christopher, & Elhanan, Gai, & Chen, Yan (2015). Structural measures to track the evolution of SNOMED CT hierarchies. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 57, 278-287.
Wei, Duo, & Gu, Huanying, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Halper, Michael H., & Ochs, Christopher, & Elhanan, Guy, & Chen, Yan (2015). Structural measures to track the evolution of SNOMED CT hierarchies. J Biomed Informatics, doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.08.001. [Epub ahead of print],
Halper, Michael H., & Gu, Huanying, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Ochs, Christopher (2015). Abstraction networks for terminologies: Supporting management of big knowledge. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 64(1), 1-16.
Gu, Huanying, & Chen, Yan, & He, Zhe, & Halper, Michael H., & Chen, Ling (2015). Quality assurance of UMLS semantic type assignments using SNOMED CT hierarchies. Methods of Information in Medicine, dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME14-01-0104 [Epub ahead of print],
Agrawal, Ankur, & He, Zhe, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Wei, Duo, & Halper, Michael H., & Elhanan, Gai, & Chen, Yan (2013). The readiness of SNOMED problem list concepts for meaningful use of electronic health records.. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 58(2), 73-80.
Morrey, C. P., & Perl, Yehoshua, & Halper, Michael H., & Chen, Ling, & Gu, Huanying (2012). A chemical specialty semantic network for the Unified Medical Language System. Journal of Cheminformatics, 4:9,
Wang, Yue, & Halper, Michael H., & Wei, Duo, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Geller, James (2012). Abstraction of complex concepts with a refined partial-area taxonomy of SNOMED. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 45(1), 15-29.
Wang, Yue, & Halper, Michael H., & Wei, Duo, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Geller, James (2012). Abstraction of complex concepts with a refined partial-area taxonomy of SNOMED. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 45(1), 15-29.
Huang, Kuo-chuan, & Geller, James, & Halper, Michael H., & Elhanan, Gai, & Perl, Yehoshua (2011). Scalability of piecewise synonym identification in integration of SNOMED into the UMLS. International Journal of Computational Models and Algorithms in Medicine, 2(3), 26-45.
Morrey, C P, & Chen, Ling, & Halper, Michael H., & Perl, Yehoshua (2011). Resolution of redundant semantic type assignments for organic chemicals in the UMLS. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 52(3), 141-151.
Gu, Huanying, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Halper, Michael H., & Geller, James, & Neuhold, Erich J. (2004). Contextual partitioning for comprehension of OODB schemas. Knowledge and Information Systems, 6(3), 315-344.
Gu, Huanying, & Chen, Yan, & He, Zhe, & Halper, Michael H., & Chen, Ling (2016). Quality assurance of UMLS semantic type assignments using SNOMED CT hierarchies. Methods of Information in Medicine, 55(2),
Wei, Duo, & Gu, Huanying, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Halper, Michael H., & Ochs, Christopher, & Elhanan, Gai, & Chen, Yan (2015). Structural measures to track the evolution of SNOMED CT hierarchies. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 57, 278-287.
Wei, Duo, & Gu, Huanying, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Halper, Michael H., & Ochs, Christopher, & Elhanan, Guy, & Chen, Yan (2015). Structural measures to track the evolution of SNOMED CT hierarchies. J Biomed Informatics, doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.08.001. [Epub ahead of print],
Halper, Michael H., & Gu, Huanying, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Ochs, Christopher (2015). Abstraction networks for terminologies: Supporting management of big knowledge. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 64(1), 1-16.
Gu, Huanying, & Chen, Yan, & He, Zhe, & Halper, Michael H., & Chen, Ling (2015). Quality assurance of UMLS semantic type assignments using SNOMED CT hierarchies. Methods of Information in Medicine, dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME14-01-0104 [Epub ahead of print],
Agrawal, Ankur, & He, Zhe, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Wei, Duo, & Halper, Michael H., & Elhanan, Gai, & Chen, Yan (2013). The readiness of SNOMED problem list concepts for meaningful use of electronic health records.. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 58(2), 73-80.
Morrey, C. P., & Perl, Yehoshua, & Halper, Michael H., & Chen, Ling, & Gu, Huanying (2012). A chemical specialty semantic network for the Unified Medical Language System. Journal of Cheminformatics, 4:9,
Wang, Yue, & Halper, Michael H., & Wei, Duo, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Geller, James (2012). Abstraction of complex concepts with a refined partial-area taxonomy of SNOMED. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 45(1), 15-29.
Wang, Yue, & Halper, Michael H., & Wei, Duo, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Geller, James (2012). Abstraction of complex concepts with a refined partial-area taxonomy of SNOMED. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 45(1), 15-29.
Huang, Kuo-chuan, & Geller, James, & Halper, Michael H., & Elhanan, Gai, & Perl, Yehoshua (2011). Scalability of piecewise synonym identification in integration of SNOMED into the UMLS. International Journal of Computational Models and Algorithms in Medicine, 2(3), 26-45.
Morrey, C P, & Chen, Ling, & Halper, Michael H., & Perl, Yehoshua (2011). Resolution of redundant semantic type assignments for organic chemicals in the UMLS. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 52(3), 141-151.
Gu, Huanying, & Perl, Yehoshua, & Halper, Michael H., & Geller, James, & Neuhold, Erich J. (2004). Contextual partitioning for comprehension of OODB schemas. Knowledge and Information Systems, 6(3), 315-344.
COLLAPSE
Conference Proceeding
Deep Learning in the IT curriculum
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
Using convolutional neural networks to support insertion of new concepts into SNOMED CT
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
Summarizing an ontology: a "big knowledge" coverage approach
MedInfo, August 2017
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
Using convolutional neural networks to support insertion of new concepts into SNOMED CT
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
Summarizing an ontology: a "big knowledge" coverage approach
MedInfo, August 2017
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A Quality-Assurance Study of ChEBI
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
Gene Ontology Summarization to Support Visualization and Quality Assurance
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
A family-based framework for supporting quality assurance of biomedical ontologies in BioPortal
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
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
Deriving an Abstraction Network to Support Quality Assurance in OCRe
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
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
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
Auditing hierarchical cycles to locate other inconsistencies in the UMLS
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
Auditing SNOMED Integration into the UMLS for Duplicate Concepts
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
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
Gene Ontology Summarization to Support Visualization and Quality Assurance
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
A family-based framework for supporting quality assurance of biomedical ontologies in BioPortal
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
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
Deriving an Abstraction Network to Support Quality Assurance in OCRe
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
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
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
Auditing hierarchical cycles to locate other inconsistencies in the UMLS
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
Auditing SNOMED Integration into the UMLS for Duplicate Concepts
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
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Other
US9286381B2, 2016
Professional
SIGITE Annual IT Chairs/Directors Meeting
Attendee, Meeting
Attendee, Meeting