Steven Walczak

Steven WalczakSteven Walczak is an Associate Professor of Information Science, specializing in Healthcare Information Science, in the School of Information at the University of South Florida. He also holds a faculty appointment with the Florida Center for Cybersecurity. Dr. Walczak’s research is primarily focused on the application of artificial intelligence research to solve difficult real-world problems, especially in the healthcare domain. He utilizes artificial neural networks, knowledge based systems, machine learning, cognitive modeling, and text analytics in his research. Dr. Walczak also conducts research in health information systems, electronic commerce, and knowledge management. He has well over 100 published peer-reviewed journal articles, peer-review conference proceedings, and peer-reviewed book chapters. Dr. Walczak is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, former Editor-in-Chief of The Learning Organization, and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, as well as serving on the editorial boards of 4 other journals.

Publications

Artificial Neural Network Research in Online Social Networks
Artificial Neural Network Research in Online Social Networks
Steven Walczak. © 2022. 17 pages.
Artificial neural networks are a machine learning method ideal for solving classification and prediction problems using Big Data. Online social networks and virtual communities...
Analyzing Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms Using Artificial Neural Network Methodologic Triangulation
Analyzing Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms Using Artificial Neural Network Methodologic Triangulation
Steven Walczak, Jennifer B. Permuth, Vic Velanovich. © 2022. 14 pages.
Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) are a type of mucinous pancreatic cyst. IPMN have been shown to be pre-malignant precursors to pancreatic cancer, which has an...
Artificial Neural Networks in Medicine: Recent Advances
Artificial Neural Networks in Medicine: Recent Advances
Steven Walczak. © 2022. 19 pages.
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have proven to be efficacious for modeling decision problems in medicine, including diagnosis, prognosis, resource allocation, and cost...
Predicting Estimated Blood Loss and Transfusions in Gynecologic Surgery Using Artificial Neural Networks
Predicting Estimated Blood Loss and Transfusions in Gynecologic Surgery Using Artificial Neural Networks
Steven Walczak, Emad Mikhail. © 2022. 17 pages.
This chapter explores valuating the efficacy of using artificial neural networks (ANNs) for predicting the estimated blood loss (EBL) and also transfusion requirements of...
Artificial Neural Networks in Medicine: Recent Advances
Artificial Neural Networks in Medicine: Recent Advances
Steven Walczak. © 2021. 18 pages.
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have proven to be efficacious for modeling decision problems in medicine, including diagnosis, prognosis, resource allocation, and cost...
Predicting Estimated Blood Loss and Transfusions in Gynecologic Surgery Using Artificial Neural Networks
Predicting Estimated Blood Loss and Transfusions in Gynecologic Surgery Using Artificial Neural Networks
Steven Walczak, Emad Mikhail. © 2021. 15 pages.
This chapter explores valuating the efficacy of using artificial neural networks (ANNs) for predicting the estimated blood loss (EBL) and also transfusion requirements of...
Identification of Preoperative Clinical Factors Associated With Perioperative Blood Transfusions: An Artificial Neural Network Approach
Identification of Preoperative Clinical Factors Associated With Perioperative Blood Transfusions: An Artificial Neural Network Approach
Steven Walczak, Vic Velanovich. © 2021. 14 pages.
Predicting patients' surgical transfusion needs preoperatively enables more efficient blood resource management. Identifying the significance of variables to use for...
First-Time Leaders and Implicit Leadership Theory: Effects of Stress
First-Time Leaders and Implicit Leadership Theory: Effects of Stress
Steven Walczak. © 2021. 23 pages.
First-time leaders may find themselves thrust into very stressful situations for their teams and organizations at large. First-time leaders in corporations, the classroom...
Society of Agents: A Framework for Multi-Agent Collaborative Problem Solving
Society of Agents: A Framework for Multi-Agent Collaborative Problem Solving
Steven Walczak. © 2020. 24 pages.
The development of multiple agent systems faces many challenges, including agent coordination and collaboration on tasks. Minsky's The Society of Mind provides a conceptual...
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support Systems and a Classification Framework
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support Systems and a Classification Framework
Steven Walczak. © 2020. 20 pages.
Clinical decision support systems are meant to improve the quality of decision-making in healthcare. Artificial intelligence is the science of creating intelligent systems that...
An Artificial Neural Network Classification of Prescription Nonadherence
An Artificial Neural Network Classification of Prescription Nonadherence
Steven Walczak, Senanu R. Okuboyejo. © 2020. 15 pages.
This study investigates the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to classify reasons for medication nonadherence. A survey method is used to collect individual reasons for...
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support Systems and a Classification Framework
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support Systems and a Classification Framework
Steven Walczak. © 2020. 20 pages.
Clinical decision support systems are meant to improve the quality of decision-making in healthcare. Artificial intelligence is the science of creating intelligent systems that...
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Steven Walczak. © 2019. 10 pages.
Artificial intelligence is the science of creating intelligent machines. Human intelligence is comprised of numerous pieces of knowledge as well as processes for utilizing this...
Artificial Neural Networks
Artificial Neural Networks
Steven Walczak. © 2019. 14 pages.
This chapter examines the history of artificial neural networks research through the present day. The components of artificial neural network architectures and both unsupervised...
Analyzing Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms Using Artificial Neural Network Methodologic Triangulation
Analyzing Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms Using Artificial Neural Network Methodologic Triangulation
Steven Walczak, Jennifer B. Permuth, Vic Velanovich. © 2019. 12 pages.
Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) are a type of mucinous pancreatic cyst. IPMN have been shown to be pre-malignant precursors to pancreatic cancer, which has an...
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Steven Walczak. © 2018. 8 pages.
Artificial intelligence is the science of creating intelligent machines. Human intelligence is comprised of numerous pieces of knowledge as well as processes for utilizing this...
Artificial Neural Networks
Artificial Neural Networks
Steven Walczak. © 2018. 12 pages.
This chapter examines the history of artificial neural networks research through the present day. The components of artificial neural network architectures and both unsupervised...
Artificial Neural Networks and Other AI Applications for Business Management Decision Support
Artificial Neural Networks and Other AI Applications for Business Management Decision Support
Steven Walczak. © 2018. 25 pages.
Artificial intelligence (AI) in general and artificial neural networks (ANN) in particular provide a tremendous amount of knowledge to improve managerial decision making....
Society of Agents: A Framework for Multi-Agent Collaborative Problem Solving
Society of Agents: A Framework for Multi-Agent Collaborative Problem Solving
Steven Walczak. © 2018. 23 pages.
The development of multiple agent systems faces many challenges, including agent coordination and collaboration on tasks. Minsky's The Society of Mind provides a conceptual...
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support Systems and a Classification Framework
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support Systems and a Classification Framework
Steven Walczak. © 2018. 17 pages.
Clinical decision support systems are meant to improve the quality of decision-making in healthcare. Artificial intelligence is the science of creating intelligent systems that...
Artificial Neural Network Research in Online Social Networks
Artificial Neural Network Research in Online Social Networks
Steven Walczak. © 2018. 15 pages.
Artificial neural networks are a machine learning method ideal for solving classification and prediction problems using Big Data. Online social networks and virtual communities...
International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT)
International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT)
Vijayan Sugumaran. Est. 2005.
Intelligent information technologies are being used by a large number of organizations for improving productivity in many roles such as assistants to human operators and...