Michael Rutherford

Instructor

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-23

faculty

COM | Biomedical Informatics

mwrutherford@uams.edu

12 h-index 49 pubs 393 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Michael Rutherford's research centers on the application of computational methods and data analysis in healthcare and biomedical fields. He has contributed to the development of tools for medical image synthesis, such as the Python library 'medigan,' and has investigated methods for de-identifying clinical and imaging data for AI projects. His work also includes evaluating the implementation of standards like HL7 FHIR to facilitate data exchange in clinical research. Rutherford has explored the analysis of caregiver burden through social media discussions and contributed to health economic analyses for tobacco dependency treatment services. His publication record also includes research into the molecular mechanisms of multiple myeloma, examining transcriptional profiles and gene expression in plasma cells across different disease stages.

Metrics

  • h-index: 12
  • Publications: 49
  • Citations: 393

Selected Publications

  • Evaluation of electronic health record to HL7® FHIR® mappings in pediatric research studies (2026)
  • Evaluating Skellytour for Automated Skeleton Segmentation from Whole-Body CT Images (2025)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluation of Electronic Health Record to Hl7® Fhir® Mappings in Pediatric Research Studies (2025)
  • New implementation of data standards for AI in oncology: Experience from the EuCanImage project (2024)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Linking <i>The Cancer Imaging Archive</i> and <scp>GenBank</scp> to the <scp>National Clinical Cohort Collaborative</scp> (2024)
  • Summary of the National Cancer Institute 2023 Virtual Workshop on Medical Image De-identification—Part 1: Report of the MIDI Task Group - Best Practices and Recommendations, Tools for Conventional Approaches to De-identification, International Approaches to De-identification, and Industry Panel on Image De-identification (2024)
    6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Documenting the de-identification process of clinical and imaging data for AI for health imaging projects (2024)
    17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • New implementation of data standards for AI in oncology. Experience from the EuCanImage project (2024)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Abstract 6579: Accelerating de-identification of images with cloud services to support data sharing in cancer research (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • medigan: a Python library of pretrained generative models for medical image synthesis (2023)
    41 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Analysis of Caregiver Burden Expressed in Social Media Discussions (2023)
    15 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Plasma cells expression from smouldering myeloma to myeloma reveals the importance of the PRC2 complex, cell cycle progression, and the divergent evolutionary pathways within the different molecular subgroups (2021)
    7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • High‐risk transcriptional profiles in multiple myeloma are an acquired feature that can occur in any subtype and more frequently with each subsequent relapse (2021)
    9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A DICOM dataset for evaluation of medical image de-identification (2021)
    32 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluating Site-Level Implementations of the HL7 FHIR Standard to Support eSource Data Exchange in Clinical Research (2021)
    17 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Grants & Funding

  • TO4 Moonshot BioBank – Support to IROC NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute - Pass Through: Leidos Co-Investigator

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