Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles,book chapters, preprints & conference work.
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In progress
Manuscripts in preparation or review — titles may change before publication.
Under internal review
Suicide Risk Prediction Models Are Ready, Our Systems Are Not
with Yunyu Xiao, Colin G. Walsh, Hadi Kharrazi
Under internal review
AToP: Attribution-Guided Temporal Pattern Mining for EHR Explainability
In preparation · target: npj Digital Medicine
MARA: Manifold-Aware Retrieval Augmentation for Multi-Site Clinical Prediction
27 of 27 works
2026
Navigating extreme class imbalance in suicide risk prediction
Kitchen, C., Belouali, A., Nestadt, P. S., Wilcox, H. C., & Kharrazi, H.
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 16, 1679618 · DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1679618
Mental HealthMethodsDigital Detection Meets Crisis Intervention: A national county-level study of GoGuardian Beacon implementation and sustainment on youth suicide rates[under review]
Zhu, X., Wood, K., Ahrens, R., Belouali, A., Batorsky, B., & Wilcox, H. C.
Under review
Mental Health
2025
Identifying and characterizing suicide decedent subtypes using deep embedded clustering
Belouali, A., Kitchen, C., Zirikly, A., Nestadt, P., Wilcox, H. C., & Kharrazi, H.
Scientific Reports, 15(1), 23069
Mental HealthMethodsIdentification of temporal condition patterns associated with suicide from claims data using sequence pattern mining[under review]
Belouali, A., Kitchen, C., Haroz, E., Lehmann, H., Nestadt, P., Wilcox, H. C., & Kharrazi, H.
JAMA Network Open
Mental HealthMethodsUse of vital records to improve identification of suicide as manner of death for opioid-related fatalities
Flores, J., Desjardins, M., Kitchen, C., Belouali, A., Nestadt, P., Wilcox, H. C., & Kharrazi, H.
Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention · DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a001033 · PMID: 41230711
Mental HealthTowards fair decentralized benchmarking of healthcare AI algorithms with the Federated Tumor Segmentation (FeTS) Challenge
Zenk, M., Baid, U., Pati, S., Linardos, A., Edwards, B., Sheller, M., Foley, P., …, Belouali, A., …, & Yang, H.
Nature Communications, 16(1), 6274
Federated LearningOncologyImagingDetermining the feasibility and acceptability of a randomized telehealth pilot study for veterans with chronic multisymptom illness
Breneman, C. B., Pollin, K., Chun, T., Crock, L., Jachimowicz, W., McCullers, R. A., Brewster, R. C., Alaoui, A., Belouali, A., Roy, M. J., Reinhard, M. J., & Costanzo, M. E.
Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 11, 43
Veteran HealthConsiderations for evaluating the practical utility of machine learning in suicide risk estimation: The role of cost and equity[preprint]
Kitchen, C., Belouali, A., Nestadt, P. S., Wilcox, H. C., & Kharrazi, H.
Research Square [Preprint] · DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8216032/v1 · PMID: 41502566
Mental HealthMethodsGeospatial suicide risk prediction in the State of Maryland and the limits of discernible intent[under review]
Kitchen, C., Belouali, A., Zirikly, A., Nestadt, P., Wilcox, H. C., & Kharrazi, H.
BMC Public Health
Mental Health
2024
Suicide death prediction using the Maryland Suicide Data Warehouse: A sensitivity analysis
Kitchen, C., Zirikly, A., Belouali, A., Kharrazi, H., Nestadt, P., & Wilcox, H. C.
Archives of Suicide Research · DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2024.2363227 · PMID: 38945167
Mental HealthEvaluation of crowdsourced mortality prediction models as a framework for assessing artificial intelligence in medicine
Bergquist, T., Schaffter, T., …, & the Patient Mortality Prediction DREAM Challenge Consortium (including Belouali, A.)
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 31(1), 35–44 · DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocad255 · PMID: 37996352
Methods
2023
Trends and opportunities in computable clinical phenotyping: A scoping review
He, T., Belouali, A., Patricoski, J., Lehmann, H., Ball, R., Anagnostou, V., Kreimeyer, K., & Botsis, T.
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 140, 104335 · DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104335 · PMID: 36933631
MethodsThe impact of immunosuppressive agents on immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy in patients with advanced melanoma: A real-world, multicenter, retrospective study
Lev-Ari, S., Serzan, M., Wu, T., Ip, A., Pascual, L., Sinclaire, B., Adams, S., Marafelias, M., Ayyagari, L., Gill, S. K., Ma, B., Zaemes, J. P., Della Pia, A., Alaoui, A., Madhavan, S., Belouali, A., Pecora, A., Ahn, J., Atkins, M. B., & Shah, N. J.
Cancer, 129(12), 1885–1894 · DOI: 10.1002/cncr.34742 · PMID: 36951119
OncologyGulf War Illness: A randomized controlled trial combining mindfulness meditation and auricular acupuncture
Breneman, C. B., Reinhard, M. J., Allen, N., Belouali, A., Chun, T., Crock, L., Duncan, A. D., & Dutton, M. A.
Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health, 12, 27536130231171856 · DOI: 10.1177/2753613023117185 · PMID: 37151571
Veteran HealthPatient-reported data augment health record data for prediction models of persistent opioid use after elective upper extremity surgery
Giladi, A. M., Shipp, M. M., Sanghavi, K. K., Zhang, G., Gupta, S., Miller, K. E., Belouali, A., & Madhavan, S.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 152(2), 358e–366e · DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000010297 · PMID: 36780362
Methods
2022
Impact of social determinants of health on improving the LACE index for 30-day unplanned readmission prediction
Belouali, A., Bai, H., Raja, K., Liu, S., Ding, X., & Kharrazi, H.
JAMIA Open, 5(2), ooac046 · DOI: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooac046 · PMID: 35702627
Social DeterminantsMethodsFederated learning enables big data for rare cancer boundary detection
Pati, S., Baid, U., Edwards, B., …, Belouali, A., …, & Bakas, S.
Nature Communications, 13(1), 7346 · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36188-7 · PMID: 36702828
Federated LearningOncologyImagingAssessing the racial and socioeconomic disparities in postpartum depression using population-level hospital discharge data: Longitudinal retrospective study
Liu, S., Ding, X., Belouali, A., Bai, H., Raja, K., & Kharrazi, H.
JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, 5(4), e38879 · DOI: 10.2196/38879 · PMID: 36103575
Mental HealthSocial DeterminantsReal-world studies link NSAID use to improved overall lung cancer survival
Roszik, J., Jack Lee, J., Wu, Y.-H., Liu, X., Kawakami, M., Kurie, J. M., Belouali, A., Boca, S. M., Gupta, S., Beckman, R. A., Madhavan, S., & Dmitrovsky, E.
Cancer Research Communications, 2(7), 590–601 · DOI: 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-22-0179 · PMID: 35832288
OncologyEnhancing the REMBRANDT MRI collection with expert segmentation labels and quantitative radiomic features
Sayah, A., Bencheqroun, C., Bhuvaneshwar, K., Belouali, A., Bakas, S., Sako, C., Davatzikos, C., Alaoui, A., Madhavan, S., & Gusev, Y.
Nature Scientific Data, 9(1), 338 · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01415-1 · PMID: 35701399
OncologyImagingPlatforms
2021
Acoustic and language analysis of speech for suicidal ideation among US veterans
Belouali, A., Gupta, S., Sourirajan, V., Yu, J., Allen, N., Alaoui, A., Dutton, M. A., & Reinhard, M. J.
BioData Mining, 14(1), 11 · DOI: 10.1186/s13040-021-00245-y · PMID: 33531048
Mental HealthNLPVeteran HealthAssociation between body mass index and immune-related adverse events (irAEs) among advanced-stage cancer patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors: A pan-cancer analysis
Zhang, D., Shah, N. J., Cook, M., Blackburn, M., Serzan, M. T., Advani, S., Potosky, A. L., Madhavan, S., Belouali, A., Atkins, M. B., & Braithwaite, R. S.
Cancers, 13(24), 6109 · DOI: 10.3390/cancers14184525 · PMID: 36139703
OncologyAutomated identification of patients with immune-related adverse events from clinical notes using word embedding and machine learning
Gupta, S., Belouali, A., Shah, N. J., Atkins, M. B., & Madhavan, S.
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, 5, 541–549 · DOI: 10.1200/CCI.20.00109 · PMID: 33989017
OncologyNLP
2020
Ethics of AI or Ethical AI, Topical Point of View
Belouali, S., Belouali, A., Saber, M., Jaafar, K., & Belkasmi, M. G.
In Advances in Smart Technologies Applications and Case Studies (pp. 535–540). Springer International Publishing
Methods
2019
Safety and efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in cancer patients with HIV, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C viral infection
Shah, N. J., Al-Shbool, G., Blackburn, M., Cook, M., Belouali, A., Liu, S. V., Madhavan, S., He, A. R., Atkins, M. B., Gibney, G. T., & Kim, C.
Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 7(1), 353 · DOI: 10.1186/s40425-019-0771-1 · PMID: 31847881
Oncology
2017
An Internet-based writing intervention for PTSD in veterans: A feasibility and pilot effectiveness trial
Krupnick, J. L., Green, B. L., Amdur, R., Alaoui, A., Belouali, A., Roberge, E., Cueva, D., Roberts, M., Melnikoff, E., & Dutton, M. A.
Psychological Trauma, 9(4), 461–470 · DOI: 10.1037/tra0000176 · PMID: 27607767
Veteran HealthMental Health
2016
G-DOC Plus — an integrative bioinformatics platform for precision medicine
Bhuvaneshwar, K., Belouali, A., Singh, V., Johnson, S. O., Rajapakshe, A., Kalakota, N. R., Alexander, S., Gusev, Y., Sundar, S. K., Riggins, R. B., Clarke, R., Weiner, L. M., Simon, R., & Madhavan, S.
BMC Bioinformatics, 17, 193 · DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-1010-0 · PMID: 27130330
PlatformsOncology
Talks & invited lectures
Podium presentations, invited talks, and panels at scientific meetings.
2025 · Podium · Presenter
Temporal condition patterns associated with suicide death using sequence mining and claims data
AMIA Annual Symposium 2025 · Atlanta, GA
Belouali A, Kitchen C, Haroz E, Lehmann H, Nestadt P, Wilcox HC, Kharrazi H
2024 · Podium
Identifying and characterizing suicide decedent subtypes using deep embedded clustering
AMIA Annual Symposium 2024 · San Francisco, CA
Belouali A, Kitchen C, Zirikly A, Nestadt P, Wilcox HC, Kharrazi H
2023 · Podium
Identifying and characterizing suicide decedent subtypes using deep embedded clustering
International Summit on Suicide Research 2023 · Barcelona, Spain
Belouali A, Kitchen C, Zirikly A, Nestadt P, Wilcox HC, Kharrazi H
2023 · Podium
Identification of suicide decedent subtypes using cluster analysis techniques
NLM T15 Training Conference 2023 · Stanford, CA
Belouali A, Kharrazi H
2022 · Podium
Impact of SDOH on improving the LACE index for 30-day unplanned readmission prediction
AMIA Annual Symposium 2022 · Washington, DC
Belouali A, Bai H, Raja K, Kharrazi H
2018 · Invited
Data Science to bring research and care together
CCAF/CCAF-IT 2018 · Portland, Oregon
Belouali A, Alaoui A, Madhavan S
Posters
Conference posters — presenter and co-author.
2025 · Poster · Presenter
Temporal condition patterns associated with suicide death using sequence mining and claims data
AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) 2025
Belouali A, Kharrazi H
2025 · Poster · Presenter
Uncovering temporal condition patterns associated with suicide death using sequence patterns mining and claims data
International Summit on Suicide Research (IASR/AFSP) 2025 · Boston, MA
Belouali A, Kitchen C, Haroz E, Lehmann H, Nestadt P, Wilcox HC, Kharrazi H
2023 · Poster
NLP-based suicide death prediction models and how they perform in Black and white populations
International Summit on Suicide Research 2023 · Barcelona, Spain
Zirikly A, Kitchen C, Belouali A, Wilcox HC, Nestadt P, Kharrazi H
2023 · Poster
Geospatial suicide risk prediction within the state of Maryland
International Summit on Suicide Research 2023 · Barcelona, Spain
Kitchen C, Wilcox HC, Belouali A, Zirikly A, Nestadt P, Kharrazi H
2022 · Poster
Prediction of best response for NSCLC patients receiving immunotherapy by ML models
SITC 2022
Zhang Y, Gupta S, Belouali A, Lev-Ari S, Shah N, et al.
2020 · Poster
Automated identification of patients with irAEs from clinical notes using ML
AMIA Podium Abstract 2020 · Virtual
Gupta S, Belouali A, Shah NJ, Atkins M, Madhavan S
2019 · Poster
Real-world outcomes of underrepresented patient populations treated with ICIs
ASCO 2019
Shah NJ, Blackburn M, Cook M, Belouali A, et al.
2019 · Poster
Safety and efficacy of ICIs in patients with HIV, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C viral infections
AACR 2019
Shah NJ, Al-shbool G, Blackburn M, Cook M, Belouali A, et al.
2018 · Poster
Clinical outcome of immune-related hepatitis in advanced melanoma patients treated with ICIs
ESMO 2018 · Munich, Germany
Shah N, Puthiamadathil J, Serzan MT, Belouali A, et al.
2018 · Poster · Presenter
A centralized comprehensive immuno-oncology repository to enable outcomes and medication research
Big Data in Medicine Symposium 2018
Belouali A, Shah N, Rao S, Zhu X, Gibney G, Madhavan S, Atkins M
2018 · Poster · Presenter
A machine learning approach to detect suicide ideation in veterans based on acoustic and semantic analysis of speech
Technology in Psychiatry Summit 2018
Belouali A, Yu J, Alaoui A, Allen N, Zajdel A, Madhavan S, Dutton MA, Reinhard M
2017 · Poster · Presenter
Mobile app to support patient quality of life for veterans with GW illness symptoms
Biomedical Informatics Symposium 2017
Belouali A, Alaoui A, Allen N, Zajdel A, Crock L, Sullivan P, Dutton MA, Reinhard M