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20142025
most citedHow do dataset characteristics affect the performance of propensity score methods and regression for controlling confounding in observational studies? A simulation study

61 citations

26 papers

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

CardioMorphNet: Cardiac Motion Prediction Using a Shape-Guided Bayesian Recurrent Deep Network

Reza Akbari Movahed, Abuzar Rezaee, Arezoo Zakeri +3

Accurate cardiac motion estimation from cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images is vital for assessing cardiac function and detecting its abnormalities. Existing methods often…

cs.CY2025★ 4 cited

Will Large Language Models Transform Clinical Prediction?

Yusuf Yildiz, Goran Nenadic, Meghna Jani +1

Objective: Large language models (LLMs) are attracting increasing interest in healthcare. This commentary evaluates the potential of LLMs to improve clinical prediction models (CPM…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Data Standards in Audiology: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Community Perspectives and Implementation Considerations

Charlotte Vercammen, Antje Heinrich, Christophe Lesimple +3

Objective: This study addresses conceptual issues around data standardisation in audiology, and outlines steps toward achieving it. It reports a survey of the computational audiolo…

physics.med-ph2025

An in silico approach to analyse the influence of carotid haemodynamics on cardiovascular events using 3D tomographic ultrasound and computational fluid dynamics

Sampad Sengupta, Emily Manchester, Jie Wang +3

Analysing the haemodynamics of flow in carotid artery disease serves as a means to better understand the development and progression of associated complex diseases. Carotid artery…

eess.IV2024★ 4 cited

Integrating Deep Learning with Fundus and Optical Coherence Tomography for Cardiovascular Disease Prediction

Cynthia Maldonado-Garcia, Arezoo Zakeri, Alejandro F Frangi +1

Early identification of patients at risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is crucial for effective preventive care, reducing healthcare burden, and improving patients' quality of l…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Multiple Teachers-Meticulous Student: A Domain Adaptive Meta-Knowledge Distillation Model for Medical Image Classification

Shahabedin Nabavi, Kian Anvari Hamedani, Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam +2

Background: Image classification can be considered one of the key pillars of medical image analysis. Deep learning (DL) faces challenges that prevent its practical applications des…

stat.ME2023★ 19 cited

How to develop, externally validate, and update multinomial prediction models

Celina K Gehringer, Glen P Martin, Ben Van Calster +3

Multinomial prediction models (MPMs) have a range of potential applications across healthcare where the primary outcome of interest has multiple nominal or ordinal categories. Howe…

stat.ME2023★ 4 cited

Risk-based decision making: estimands for sequential prediction under interventions

Kim Luijken, Paweł Morzywołek, Wouter van Amsterdam +14

Prediction models are used amongst others to inform medical decisions on interventions. Typically, individuals with high risks of adverse outcomes are advised to undergo an interve…

eess.IV2023★ 6 cited

Multi-view Hybrid Graph Convolutional Network for Volume-to-mesh Reconstruction in Cardiovascular MRI

Nicolás Gaggion, Benjamin A. Matheson, Yan Xia +6

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging is emerging as a crucial tool to examine cardiac morphology and function. Essential to this endeavour are anatomical 3D surface and volume…

cond-mat.dis-nn2022★ 1 cited

Replica analysis of the lattice-gas Restricted Boltzmann Machine partition function

David C. Hoyle

We study the expectation value of the logarithm of the partition function of large binary-to-binary lattice-gas Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) within a replica-symmetric ansa…

stat.ML2022★ 6 cited

Distributed learning optimisation of Cox models can leak patient data: Risks and solutions

Carsten Brink, Christian Rønn Hansen, Matthew Field +5

Medical data are often highly sensitive, and frequently there are missing data. Due to the data's sensitive nature, there is an interest in creating modelling methods where the dat…

stat.ME2022★ 61 cited

How do dataset characteristics affect the performance of propensity score methods and regression for controlling confounding in observational studies? A simulation study

J. Wilkinson, M. A. Mamas, E. Kontopantelis

In observational studies, researchers must select a method to control for confounding. Options include propensity score methods and regression. It remains unclear how dataset chara…

stat.AP2022★ 10 cited

Bridging disconnected networks of first and second lines of biologic therapies in rheumatoid arthritis with registry data: Bayesian evidence synthesis with target trial emulation

Sylwia Bujkiewicz, Janharpreet Singh, Lorna Wheaton +4

Objective: We aim to utilise real world data in evidence synthesis to optimise an evidence base for the effectiveness of biologic therapies in rheumatoid arthritis in order to allo…

q-bio.PE2021★ 23 cited

EpiBeds: Data informed modelling of the COVID-19 hospital burden in England

Christopher E. Overton, Lorenzo Pellis, Helena B. Stage +9

The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic put considerable strain on the national healthcare system in England. In order to predict the effect of the local epidemic on hospital capac…

stat.ME2020★ 1 cited

A scoping review of causal methods enabling predictions under hypothetical interventions

Lijing Lin, Matthew Sperrin, David A. Jenkins +2

Background and Aims: The methods with which prediction models are usually developed mean that neither the parameters nor the predictions should be interpreted causally. However, wh…

q-bio.PE2020★ 60 cited

Using statistics and mathematical modelling to understand infectious disease outbreaks: COVID-19 as an example

Christopher E. Overton, Helena B. Stage, Shazaad Ahmad +16

During an infectious disease outbreak, biases in the data and complexities of the underlying dynamics pose significant challenges in mathematically modelling the outbreak and desig…

stat.ME2020★ 35 cited

Clinical Prediction Models to Predict the Risk of Multiple Binary Outcomes: a comparison of approaches

Glen P. Martin, Matthew Sperrin, Kym I. E. Snell +2

Clinical prediction models (CPMs) are used to predict clinically relevant outcomes or events. Typically, prognostic CPMs are derived to predict the risk of a single future outcome.…

cs.DL2020★ 34 cited

Towards a Framework for the Design, Implementation and Reporting of Methodology Scoping Reviews

Glen P. Martin, David Jenkins, Lucy Bull +10

Background: In view of the growth of published papers, there is an increasing need for studies that summarise scientific research. An increasingly common review is a 'Methodology s…

stat.AP2019★ 26 cited

Examining the impact of data quality and completeness of electronic health records on predictions of patients risks of cardiovascular disease

Yan Li, Matthew Sperrin, Glen P. Martin +2

The objective is to assess the extent of variation of data quality and completeness of electronic health records and impact on the robustness of risk predictions of incident cardio…

q-bio.NC2019★ 29 cited

The influence of diversity on the measurement of functional impairment: An international validation of the Amsterdam IADL Questionnaire in 8 countries

Mark A. Dubbelman, Merike Verrijp, David Facal +18

INTRODUCTION: To understand the potential influence of diversity on the measurement of functional impairment in dementia, we aimed to investigate possible bias caused by age, gende…

physics.med-ph2019★ 46 cited

Mean shape of the human limbus

Alejandra Consejo, Clara Llorens-Quintana, Hema Radhakrishnan +1

Purpose: To characterize the mean topographical shape of the human limbus of a normal eye and ascertain whether it depends on age and refractive power. Setting: Academic institutio…

q-bio.TO2019★ 13 cited

Quantifying the impact of tissue metabolism on solute transport in feto-placental microvascular networks

Alexander Erlich, Gareth A. Nye, Paul Brownbill +2

The primary exchange units in the human placenta are terminal villi, in which fetal capillary networks are surrounded by a thin layer of villous tissue, separating fetal from mater…

physics.bio-ph2018★ 45 cited

Physical and geometric determinants of transport in feto-placental microvascular networks

Alexander Erlich, Philip Pearce, Romina Plitman Mayo +2

Across mammalian species, solute exchange takes place in complex microvascular networks. In the human placenta, the primary exchange units are terminal villi that contain disordere…

q-bio.CB2017★ 41 cited

Mechanical characterization of disordered and anisotropic cellular monolayers

Alexander Nestor-Bergmann, Emma Johns, Sarah Woolner +1

We consider a cellular monolayer, described using a vertex-based model, for which cells form a spatially disordered array of convex polygons that tile the plane. Equilibrium cell c…