Pestian Lab
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Publications

Pestian, JP; Sorter, M; Connolly, B; Bretonnel Cohen, K; Mccullumsmith, C; Gee, JT; Morency, L-P; Scherer, S; Rohlfs, L. A Machine Learning Approach to Identifying the Thought Markers of Suicidal Subjects: A Prospective Multicenter Trial. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 2017; 47(1):112-121.

Pestian, JP; Grupp-Phelan, J; Bretonnel Cohen, K; Meyers, G; Richey, LA; Matykiewicz, P; Sorter, MT. A Controlled Trial Using Natural Language Processing to Examine the Language of Suicidal Adolescents in the Emergency Department. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 2016; 46(2):154-159.

Cohen, KB; Glass, B; Greiner, HM; Holland-Bouley, K; Standridge, S; Arya, R; Faist, R; Morita, D; Mangano, F; Connolly, B; Glauser, T; Pestian, J. Methodological Issues in Predicting Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Candidates Through Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Biomedical Informatics Insights. 2016; 8:11-18.

Connolly, B; Matykiewicz, P; Bretonnel Cohen, K; Standridge, SM; Glauser, TA; Dlugos, DJ; Koh, S; Tham, E; Pestian, J. Assessing the similarity of surface linguistic features related to epilepsy across pediatric hospitals. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2014; 21(5):866-870.

Pestian, JP; Matykiewicz, P; Linn-Gust, M; South, B; Uzuner, O; Wiebe, J; Cohen, KB; Hurdle, J; Brew, C. Sentiment Analysis of Suicide Notes: A Shared Task. Biomedical Informatics Insights. 2012; 5(Suppl 1):3-16.

Qureshi, F; Pestian, J; Davis, P; Zaritsky, A. Nebulized Ipratropium Decreases Hospitalization Rate of Children with Severe Asthma • 389. Pediatric Research. 1998; 43(Suppl 4):69-69.

Chandrashekar, M; Tschida, J; Strawn, JR; Hanson, HA; Santel, D; Goethert, I; Kapadia, AJ; Glauser, T; Pestian, J; Agasthya, GA. Comparison of Expert Vocabulary Usage Patterns Between Mental Health and Nonmental Health Clinicians When Diagnosing Pediatric Anxiety Disorders. Journal of Pediatrics. 2025; 286:114735.

Sullivan, KA; Lane, M; Cashman, M; Miller, JI; Pavicic, M; Walker, AM; Cliff, A; Romero, J; Qin, X; Mullins, N; Oslin, DW; Kimbrel, NA; Jacobson, DA; Kainer, D. Analyses of GWAS signal using GRIN identify additional genes contributing to suicidal behavior. Communications Biology. 2024; 7(1):1360.

Sorter, M; Stark, LJ; Glauser, T; Mcclure, J; Pestian, J; Junger, K; Cheng, TL. Addressing the Pediatric Mental Health Crisis: Moving from a Reactive to a Proactive System of Care. Journal of Pediatrics. 2024; 265:113479.

Wissel, BD; Greiner, HM; Glauser, TA; Pestian, JP; Ficker, DM; Cavitt, JL; Estofan, L; Holland-Bouley, KD; Mangano, FT; Szczesniak, RD; Dexheimer, JW. Early Identification of Candidates for Epilepsy Surgery: A Multicenter, Machine Learning, Prospective Validation Study. Neurology. 2024; 102(4):e208048.

Dhaubhadel, S; Ganguly, K; Ribeiro, RM; Cohn, JD; Hyman, JM; Hengartner, NW; Kolade, B; Singley, A; Bhattacharya, T; Finley, P; Oslin, DW; Beckham, JC; Kimbrel, NA; Mcmahon, BH. High dimensional predictions of suicide risk in 4.2 million US Veterans using ensemble transfer learning. Scientific Reports. 2024; 14(1):1793.

Warner, EN; Ammerman, RT; Glauser, TA; Pestian, JP; Agasthya, G; Strawn, JR. Developmental Epidemiology of Pediatric Anxiety Disorders. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 2023; 32(3):511-530.

Wissel, BD; Greiner, HM; Glauser, TA; Mangano, FT; Holland-Bouley, KD; Zhang, N; Szczesniak, RD; Santel, D; Pestian, JP; Dexheimer, JW. Automated, machine learning-based alerts increase epilepsy surgery referrals: A randomized controlled trial. Epilepsia. 2023; 64(7):1791-1799.

Kimbrel, NA; Ashley-Koch, AE; Qin, XJ; Lindquist, JH; Garrett, ME; Dennis, MF; Hair, LP; Huffman, JE; Jacobson, DA; Madduri, RK; Oslin, DW; Beckham, JC; Hauser, ER; Hauser, MA. Identification of Novel, Replicable Genetic Risk Loci for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among US Military Veterans. JAMA psychiatry. 2023; 80(2):135-145.

Pavicic, M; Walker, AM; Sullivan, KA; Lagergren, J; Cliff, A; Romero, J; Streich, J; Garvin, MR; Pestian, J; Mcmahon, B; Oslin, DW; Beckham, JC; Kimbrel, NA; Jacobson, DA. Using iterative random forest to find geospatial environmental and Sociodemographic predictors of suicide attempts. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2023; 14:1178633.

Kanbar, LJ; Wissel, B; Ni, Y; Pajor, N; Glauser, T; Pestian, J; Dexheimer, JW. Implementation of Machine Learning Pipelines for Clinical Practice: Development and Validation Study. JMIR Medical Informatics. 2022; 10(12):e37833.

Bayram, U; Lee, W; Santel, D; Minai, A; Clark, P; Glauser, T; Pestian, J. Toward Suicidal Ideation Detection with Lexical Network Features and Machine Learning. Northeast Journal of Complex Systems. 2022; 4(1).

Mullins, N; Kang, J; Campos, AI; Coleman, JRI; Edwards, AC; Galfalvy, H; Levey, DF; Lori, A; Shabalin, A; Starnawska, A; Stein, MB; Streit, F; Willour, V; Ruderfer, DM. Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors. Biological Psychiatry. 2022; 91(3):313-327.

Wissel, BD; Greiner, HM; Glauser, TA; Pestian, JP; Kemme, AJ; Santel, D; Ficker, DM; Mangano, FT; Szczesniak, RD; Dexheimer, JW. Early identification of epilepsy surgery candidates: A multicenter, machine learning study. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 2021; 144(1):41-50.

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