Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2025

Frazier, C., Miao, C., Evans, M., & Frazier, E. A Network-Based Cross-Sectional Geographic Examination of Access to Pediatric Dermatologists Across the U.S. Pediatric Dermatology. (Accepted

Frazier, C., Miao, C., Shalin, S., Jensen, H., & Frazier, E. A Network-Based Cross-Sectional Study of Geographic Access Disparities to Medicare-Participating Dermatologists in the U.S. JAAD International. (Accepted)

Miao, C., Chen, X., & Zhang, C. (2025). Perceived built environment and non-motorist crashes: An exploration with street view imagery. Journal of Transport Geography, 128, 104363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104363  

Lyu, W., Chen, X., Miao, C., Lin, Q., Xiang, X., Zhang, G., & Xu, R. (2025). Revisiting the modified Retail Food Environment Index (mRFEI): Examining food access inequities over a decade in the United States. Discover Public Health, 22(1), 318. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-025-00704-5

Lin, Q., Chen, X., Xiang, X., Lyu, W., Miao, C., Zhang, G., & Xu, R. (2025). Association of activity-based food environment index with obesity-related cancer mortality in the US. BMC Medicine, 23(1), 167. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-03967-6  

2024

Miao, C., Chen, X., & Zhang, C. (2024). Assessing network-based traffic crash risk using prospective space-time scan statistic method. Journal of Transport Geography, 119, 103958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2024.103958 

* Won first Place in the Student Paper Contest at 2024 GIS-T Symposium of American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

* Won third Place in the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group Student Paper Competition at the 2024 AAG Annual Meeting.


Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

2025

Miao, C., He, S., Li, Y., & Zhang, C. (2025). A Spatially-Adapted SHAP Approach for Interpreting Deep Bike Usage Learning and Prediction. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL ’25), ACM, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 4 pages.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3748636.3763207 (Accepted)

2014

Miao, C., & Zhao, Y. (2014). Rotation-invariant image retrieval using hidden Markov tree for remote sensing data. In Proceedings of the SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing (Vol. 9263). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2068889

2013

Zhao, Y., Han, T., Feng, S., & Miao, C. (2013). Remote Sensing Image Mosaic by Incorporating Segmentation and the Shortest Path. In F. Bian, Y. Xie, X. Cui, & Y. Zeng (Eds.), Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem (pp. 684–691). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45025-9_67


Book Chapter

2025

Chen, X., Miao, C., Lyu, W., Mai, G., Xu, R. (2025). From Space to Context: Contextualizing the Food Environment with GeoAI. In: Huang, X., Wang, S., Wilson, J., Kedron, P. (eds) GeoAI and Human Geography. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87421-5_12