Publications

Journal Articles

2025


Predicting Transvaginal Surgical Mesh Exposure Outcomes Using an Integrated Dataset of Blood Cytokine Levels and Medical Record Data: Machine Learning Approach

Mihyun Lim Waugh, Tyler Mills, Nicholas Boltin, Lauren Wolf, Patti Parker, Ronnie Horner, Thomas L Wheeler II, Richard L Goodwin, Melissa A Moss

JMIR Formative Research 9, e59631

 

2023


Prediction of Pelvic Organ Prolapse Postsurgical Outcome Using Biomaterial-Induced Blood Cytokine Levels: Machine Learning Approach

Mihyun Lim Waugh, Nicholas Boltin, Lauren Wolf, Jane Goodwin, Patti Parker, Ronnie Horner, Matthew Hermes, Thomas Wheeler, Richard Goodwin, Melissa Moss

JMIR Perioperative Medicine 6, e40402


2022


Application of Dimensional Reduction in Artificial Neural Networks to Improve Emergency Department Triage During Chemical Mass Casualty Incidents

Nicholas D Boltin, Joan M Culley, Homayoun Valafar

arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00642


2020


Mid-infrared emissivity of nylon, cotton, acrylic, and polyester fabrics as a function of moisture content

Raymond G Belliveau, Stephanie A DeJong, Nicholas D Boltin, Zhenyu Lu, Brianna M Cassidy, Stephen L Morgan, ML Myrick

Textile Research Journal 90 (13-14), 1431-1445


A study of the mid-infrared emissivity of dried blood on fabrics

Raymond G Belliveau, Stephanie A DeJong, Nicholas D Boltin, Zhenyu Lu, Brianna M Cassidy, Stephen L Morgan, ML Myrick

Forensic Chemistry 19, 100238


2019


Designing and executing a functional exercise to test a novel informatics tool for mass casualty triage

Sara B Donevant, Erik R Svendsen, Jane V Richter, Abbas S Tavakoli, Jean B r Craig, Nicholas D Boltin, Homayoun Valafar, Salvatore Robert DiNardi, Joan M Culley

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 26 (10), 1091-1098


2018


Mobile decision support tool for emergency departments and mass casualty incidents (EDIT): initial study

N Boltin, D Valdes, JM Culley, H Valafar

JMIR mHealth and uHealth 6 (6), e10727


A Comprehensive Reengineering of the Hospital Emergency Triage System

ND Boltin

University of South Carolina


2016


An AI model for rapid and accurate identification of chemical agents in mass casualty incidents

N Boltin, D Vu, B Janos, A Shofner, J Culley, H Valafar

HIMS 2016: proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems


2015


Effect of azimuthal angle on infrared diffuse reflection spectra of fabrics

SA DeJong, BM Cassidy, Z Lu, MR Pearl, JN McCutcheon, W O'Brien, ...

Spectroscopy 30 (12), 23-25


Effect of azimuthal angle on infrared diffuse reflection spectra of fabrics

M Myrick, S Morgan, SA DeJong, ND Boltin, Z Lu, JN McCutcheon, ...

MJH Life Sciences 30, 23–25-23–25


An Improved-Efficiency Compact Lamp for the Thermal Infrared

WL O'Brien, ND Boltin, SA DeJong, Z Lu, BM Cassidy, SJ Hoy, SL Morgan, ...

Applied Spectroscopy 69 (12), 1511-1513


Chemical contrast observed in thermal images of blood-stained fabrics exposed to steam

WL O'Brien, ND Boltin, Z Lu, BM Cassidy, RG Belliveau, EJ Straub, ...

Analyst 140 (18), 6222-6225


 

Patents

2025


Predicting biomaterial-implant surgical outcomes

Melissa A Moss, Mihyun L Waugh, Nicholas D Boltin, Lauren Wolf, Ronnie Horner, Matthew Hermes, Thomas Wheeler, Richard Goodwin

US Patent App, 18/915,993

 

2023


Levels of immune response markers as adverse outcome predictors following biomaterial implant surgery

M Moss, ML Waugh, ND Boltin, L Wolf, R Horner, M Hermes, T Wheeler, ...

US Patent App. 17/960,462


2014


Infrared Light Sources and Methods of Their Use and Manufacture

W O'brien, M Myrick, ND Boltin, SJ Hoy

US Patent App. 14/176,201


 

Conference Proceedings

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