Publications

  1. Schaub NP, Alimchandani M, Quezado M, Kalina P, Eberhardt JS, Hughes MS, Beresnev T, Hassan R, Bartlett DL, Libutti SK, Pingpank JF, Royal RE, Kammula US, Pandalai P, Phan GQ, Stojadinovic A, Rudloff U, Alexander HR, Avital I. A Novel Nomogram for Peritoneal Mesothelioma Predicts Survival. Ann Surg Oncol. 2012 Dec 12. PMID:23233234
  2. Wilson RA, Chapman WW, Defries SJ, Becich MJ, Chapman BE. Automated ancillary cancer history classification for mesothelioma patients from free-text clinical reports. J Pathol Inform. 2010 Oct 11;1:24. PMID: 21031012 PMCID: PMC2956176
  3. Amin W, Singh H, Dzubinski LA, Schoen RE, Parwani AV. Design and utilization of the colorectal and pancreatic neoplasm virtual biorepository: An early detection research network initiative. J Pathol Inform. 2010 Oct 1;1:22. PMID: 21031013 PMCID: PMC2956178
  4. Amin W, Singh H, Pople AK, Winters S, Dhir R, Parwani AV, Becich MJ. A decade of experience in the development and implementation of tissue banking informatics tools for intra and inter-institutional translational research. J Pathol Inform. 2010 Aug 10;1. pii: 12. PMID: 20922029 PMCID: PMC2941965
  5. Kang HP, Borromeo CD, Berman JJ, Becich MJ. The tissue microarray OWL schema: An open-source tool for sharing tissue microarray data. J Pathol Inform. 2010 Jul 13;1. pii: 9. PMID:20805954 PMCID: PMC2929536
  6. Amin W, Kang HP, Egloff AM, Singh H, Trent K, Ridge-Hetrick J, Seethala RR, Grandis J, Parwani AV. An informatics supported web-based data annotation and query tool to expedite translational research for head and neck malignancies. BMC Cancer. 2009 Nov 13;9:396. PMID: 19912644 PMCID: PMC2780457
  7. Amin W, Parwani AV, Schmandt L, Mohanty SK, Farhat G, Pople AK, Winters SB, Whelan NB, Schneider AM, Milnes JT, Valdivieso FA, Feldman M, Pass HI, Dhir R, Melamed J, Becich MJ. National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank: a standard based biospecimen and clinical data resource to enhance translational research. BMC Cancer. 2008 Aug 13;8(1):236. PMID:18700971 PMCID: PMC2533341 [Epub ahead of print]
  8. Mohanty SK, Mistry AT, Amin W, Parwani AV, Pople AK, Schmandt L, Winters SB, Milliken E, Kim P, Whelan NB, Farhat G, Melamed J, Taioli E, Dhir R, Pass HI, and Becich MJ. The development and deployment of Common Data Elements for tissue banks for translational research in cancer - an emerging standard based approach for the Mesothelioma Virtual Tissue Bank. BMC Cancer. 2008 Apr 8;8:91. PMID: 18397527 PMCID: PMC2329649
  9. Dhir R, Patel AA, Winters S, Bisceglia M, Swanson D, Aamodt R, Becich MJ. A multidisciplinary approach to honest broker services for tissue banks and clinical data: a pragmatic and practical model. Cancer. 2008 Aug 5. PMID: 18683217 PMCID: PMC2745185
  10. Patel AA, Gilbertson GR, Showe LC, London JW, Ross E, Ochs MF, Carver j, Lazarus A, Parwani AV, Dhir R, Beck JR, Liebman M, Garcia FU, Prichard J, Wilkerson M, Herberman RB, Becich MJ and the PCABC. A Novel Cross-Disciplinary Multi-Institute Approach to Translational Cancer Research: Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania Cancer Alliance Bioinformatics Consortium (PCABC). Cancer Informatics 2007:3, 255-274 (2007).
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  11. Mohanty SK, Parwani AV, Crowley RS, Winters S, Becich MJ. The importance of pathology informatics in translational research. Adv Anat Pathol. 2007 Sep;14(5):320-2. PMID: 17717431
  12. Kajdacsy-Balla A, Geynisman JM, Macias V, Setty S, Nanaji NM, Berman JJ, Dobbin K, Melamed J, Kong X, Bosland M, Orenstein J, Bayerl J, Becich MJ, Dhir R, Datta MW; The Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource. Practical aspects of planning, building, and interpreting tissue microarrays: The Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource experience. J Mol Histol. 2007 May;38(2):113-21. Epub 2007 Feb 21.
  13. Patel AA, Gupta D, Seligson D, Hattab EM, Balis UJ, Ulbright TM, Kohane IS, Berman JJ, Gilbertson JR, Dry S, Schirripa O, Yu H, Becich MJ, Parwani AV; Shared Pathology Informatics Network. Availability and quality of paraffin blocks identified in pathology archives: a multi-institutional study by the Shared Pathology Informatics Network (SPIN). BMC Cancer. 2007 Feb 28;7:37. PMID: 17386082 PMCID: PMC1810540
  14. Tobias J, Chilukuri R, Komatsoulis GA, Mohanty S, Sioutos N, Warzel DB, Wright LW, Crowley RS. The CAP cancer protocols--a case study of caCORE based data standards implementation to integrate with the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2006 Jun 20;6:25. PMID: 16787533 PMCID: PMC1524939
  15. Patel AA, Gilbertson JR, Parwani AV, Dhir R, Datta MW, Gupta R, Berman JJ, Melamed J, Kajdacsy-Balla A, Orenstein J and Becich MJ. An informatics model for tissue banks - Lessons learned from the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource. BMC Cancer 2006, 6:120-132. PMID: 16677389 PMCID: PMC1484486
  16. Patel AA, Kajdacsy-Ball A, Berman JJ, Bosland M, Datta MW, Dhir R, Gilbertson J, Melamed J, Orenstein J, Tai KF, Becich MJ. The development of common data elements for a multi-institute prostate cancer tissue bank: The Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource (CPCTR) experience. BMC Cancer 2005, Aug 21;5(1):108. PMID: 16111498 PMCID: PMC1236914
  17. Melamed J, Datta MW, Becich MJ, Orenstein JM, Dhir R, Silver S, Fidelia-Lambert M, Kadjacsy-Balla A, Macias V, Patel A, Walden PD, Bosland MC, Berman JJ. The cooperative prostate cancer tissue resource: a specimen and data resource for cancer researchers. Clin Cancer Res. 2004 Jul 15;10(14):4614-21. PMID: 15269132
  18. Berman JJ, Datta M, Kajdacsy-Balla A, Melamed J, Orenstein J, Dobbin K, Patel A, Dhir R, Becich MJ. The tissue microarray data exchange specification: implementation by the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource. BMC Bioinformatics. 2004 Feb 27;5(1):19. PMID: 15040818 PMCID: PMC373442
  19. Becich, M.J. The role of the Pathologist as tissue refiner and data miner: The impact of functional genomics on the modern pathology laboratory and the critical roles of Pathology Informatics and Bioinformatics. Molec Diag. 5(4):287-299, 2000. PMID: 11172493