Publications

Tunç, S., Sandıkçı, B., & Tanrıöver, B. (2021). A Simple Incentive Mechanism to Alleviate the Burden of Organ Wastage in Transplantation. To appear in Management Science.

Shojaee, P., Chen, X., & Jin, R. (2021). Adaptively Weighted Top-N Recommendation for Organ Matching. ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH), 3(1), 1-29.

Lan, Q., Li, Y., Robertson, J., & Jin, R. (2021). Modeling of pre-transplantation liver viability with spatial-temporal smooth variable selection. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 208, 106264.

Vaca, F. E., Li, K., Haynie, D., Gao, X., Camenga, D. R., Dziura, J., ... & Simons-Morton, B. (2021). Riding with an impaired driver and driving while impaired among adolescents: Longitudinal trajectories and their characteristics. Traffic injury prevention, 22(5), 337-342.

Ghaffarzadegan, N., Childs, L. M., & TÄuber, U. C. (2021). Diverse computer simulation models provide unified lessons on university operation during a pandemic. BioScience, 71(2), 113-114.

Ghaffarzadegan, N. (2021). Simulation-based what-if analysis for controlling the spread of Covid-19 in universities. PloS one, 16(2), e0246323.

Xu, R., Lakeh, A. B., & Ghaffarzadegan, N. (2021). Examining the characteristics of impactful research topics: A case of three decades of HIV-AIDS research. Journal of Informetrics, 15(1), 101122.

Xu, R., Rahmandad, H., Gupta, M., DiGennaro, C., Ghaffarzadegan, N., Amini, H., & Jalali, M. S. (2021). Weather, air pollution, and SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a global analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(10), e671-e680.

Rahmandad, H., Xu, R., & Ghaffarzadegan, N. (2021). Enhancing Long-term Forecasting: Learning from COVID-19 Models. Available at SSRN 3906690.

Liu, J., Wong, Z. S., So, H. Y., & Tsui, K. L. (2021). Evaluating resampling methods and structured features to improve fall incident report identification by the severity level. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Yu, L., Zhao, Y., Wang, H., Sun, T. L., Murphy, T. E., & Tsui, K. L. (2021). Assessing elderly’s functional balance and mobility via analyzing data from waist-mounted tri-axial wearable accelerometers in timed up and go tests. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 21(1), 1-14.

Liu, Y., Feng, G., Tsui, K. L., & Sun, S. (2021). Forecasting influenza epidemics in Hong Kong using Google search queries data: A new integrated approach. Expert Systems with Applications, 185, 115604.

Fan, X., Wang, H., Zhao, Y., Li, Y., & Tsui, K. L. (2021). An Adaptive Weight Learning-Based Multitask Deep Network for Continuous Blood Pressure Estimation Using Electrocardiogram Signals. Sensors, 21(5), 1595.

Ghaffarzadegan, N., & Rahmandad, H. (2020). Simulation‐based estimation of the early spread of COVID‐19 in Iran: actual versus confirmed cases. System Dynamics Review, 36(1), 101-129.

Wang, H., Zhao, Y., Yu, L., Liu, J., Zwetsloot, I. M., Cabrera, J., & Tsui, K. L. (2020). A personalized health monitoring system for community-dwelling elderly people in Hong Kong: design, implementation, and evaluation study. Journal of medical internet research, 22(9), e19223.

Liu, J., Zhao, Y., Lai, B., Wang, H., & Tsui, K. L. (2020). Wearable device heart rate and activity data in an unsupervised approach to personalized sleep monitoring: algorithm validation. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 8(8), e18370.

Wang, J., Li, X., Chu, J., & Tsui, K. L. (2020). A two-stage approach for resource allocation and surgery scheduling with assistant surgeons. IEEE Access, 8, 49487-49496.

Wang, J., Cabrera, J., Tsui, K. L., Guo, H., Bakker, M., & Kostis, J. B. (2020). Clinical and Nonclinical Effects on Operative Duration: Evidence from a Database on Thoracic Surgery. Journal of healthcare engineering, 2020.

Hsu, Y. C., Zhao, Y., Huang, K. H., Wu, Y. T., Cabrera, J., Sun, T. L., & Tsui, K. L. (2020). A novel approach for fall risk prediction using the inertial sensor data from the timed-up-and-go test in a community setting. IEEE Sensors Journal, 20(16), 9339-9350.

Chen, W., Guo, H., & Tsui, K. L. (2020). A new medical staff allocation via simulation optimisation for an emergency department in Hong Kong. International Journal of Production Research, 58(19), 6004-6023.

Jalali, M. S., & Ghaffarzadegan, N. (2019). PTSD diagnosis: A modeling approach to criticize and correct the current dichotomous decision making. ISPOR Europe 2019.

Sandıkçı, B., Tunç, S., & Tanrıover, B. (2019, December). A new simulation model for kidney transplantation in the United States. In 2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (pp. 1079-1090). IEEE.

Fan, X., Zhao, Y., Wang, H., & Tsui, K. L. (2019). Forecasting one-day-forward wellness conditions for community-dwelling elderly with single lead short electrocardiogram signals. BMC medical informatics and decision making, 19(1), 1-14.

Fan, X., Wang, H., Xu, F., Zhao, Y., & Tsui, K. L. (2019). Homecare-oriented intelligent long-term monitoring of blood pressure using electrocardiogram signals. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 16(11), 7150-7158.

Liu, J., Wong, W. T., Zwetsloot, I. M., Hsu, Y. C., & Tsui, K. L. (2019). Preliminary agreement on tracking sleep between a wrist-worn device fitbit alta and consensus sleep diary. Telemedicine and e-Health, 25(12), 1189-1197.

Tunc, S., Alagoz, O., Chhatwal, J., & Burnside, E. S. (2018). USING FINITE‐HORIZON MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES FOR OPTIMIZING POST‐MAMMOGRAPHY DIAGNOSTIC DECISIONS. Decision Analytics and Optimization in Disease Prevention and Treatment, 183-200.

Tunc, S., Alagoz, O., & Burnside, E. (2018). A New Perspective on Breast Cancer Diagnostic Guidelines to Reduce Overdiagnosis. Available at SSRN 3270399.

Lin, M., Chin, K. S., Ma, L., & Tsui, K. L. (2018). A comprehensive multi-objective mixed integer nonlinear programming model for an integrated elderly care service districting problem. Annals of Operations Research, 1-31.

Tsui, K. L., Wong, S. Y., Wu, J. T., Chow, C. B., Goldsman, D. M., & Nizam, A. (2018). Development of adaptable pandemic simulation models. Hong Kong Medical Journal.

Zhao, Y., Xu, Q., Chen, Y., & Tsui, K. L. (2018). Using Baidu index to nowcast hand-foot-mouth disease in China: a meta learning approach. BMC infectious diseases, 18(1), 1-11.

Yu, L., Chan, W. M., Zhao, Y., & Tsui, K. L. (2018). Personalized health monitoring system of elderly wellness at the community level in Hong Kong. IEEE Access, 6, 35558-35567.

Lan, Q., Sun, H., Robertson, J., Deng, X., & Jin, R. (2018). Non-invasive assessment of liver quality in transplantation based on thermal imaging analysis. Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 164, 31-47.

Lan, Q., Jin, R., & Robertson, J. L. (2015). Quantitative and qualitative evaluation for organ preservation in transplant. In IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings (p. 2229). Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).

Tunc, S., Alagoz, O., & Burnside, E. (2014). Opportunities for operations research in medical decision making. IEEE intelligent systems, 29(3), 59.