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most citedggpicrust2: an R package for PICRUSt2 predicted functional profile analysis and visualization

282 citations

50 papers

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

Balancing Efficiency and Restoration: Lightweight Mamba-Based Model for CT Metal Artifact Reduction

Weikai Qu, Sijun Liang, Xianfeng Li +7

In computed tomography imaging, metal implants frequently generate severe artifacts that compromise image quality and hinder diagnostic accuracy. There are three main challenges in…

stat.ME2026

Optimizing Complex Health Intervention Packages through the Learn-As-you-GO (LAGO) Design

Donna Spiegelman, Dong Roman Xu, Ante Bing +11

In the face of vast numbers of preventable deaths worldwide and gaping disparities in their distribution, we cannot afford to conduct null and inconclusive effectiveness and implem…

astro-ph.SR2026

SN 2017ati: A luminous type IIb explosion from a massive progenitor

Z. -H. Peng, S. Benetti, Y. -Z. Cai +21

We present optical photometric and spectroscopic observations of the Type~IIb supernova (SN)~2017ati. It reached the maximum light at about 27~d after the explosion and the light c…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

SN 2022ngb: A faint, slowly evolving Type IIb supernova with a low-mass envelope

J. -W. Zhao, S. Benetti, Y. -Z. Cai +35

An extensive photometric and spectroscopic follow-up campaign of the Type IIb SN 2022ngb is presented in the article. Through detailed modeling of this dataset, we aim to constrain…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Anatomy of parameter-estimation biases in overlapping gravitational-wave signals: detector network

Ziming Wang, Dicong Liang, Lijing Shao

With the significantly improved sensitivity and a wider frequency band, the next-generation gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are anticipated to detect GW signals per y…

astro-ph.HE2025

Constraining Fermionic Dark Matter with Galactic Neutron Stars

Jianyuan Luo, Dicong Liang, Lijing Shao

Dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant open questions in modern physics, with its nature and interactions largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the behavi…

gr-qc2025★ 97 cited

The Science of the Einstein Telescope

Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485

Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…

cs.CV2024★ 4 cited

3D Distance-color-coded Assessment of PCI Stent Apposition via Deep-learning-based Three-dimensional Multi-object Segmentation

Xiaoyang Qin, Hao Huang, Shuaichen Lin +8

Coronary artery disease poses a significant global health challenge, often necessitating percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stent implantation. Assessing stent appositio…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Vetting quark-star models with gravitational waves in the hierarchical Bayesian framework

Ziming Wang, Yong Gao, Dicong Liang +2

The recent discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) has opened a new avenue for investigating the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter in compact stars, which is an outstanding pr…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Don't Fear Peculiar Activation Functions: EUAF and Beyond

Qianchao Wang, Shijun Zhang, Dong Zeng +4

In this paper, we propose a new super-expressive activation function called the Parametric Elementary Universal Activation Function (PEUAF). We demonstrate the effectiveness of PEU…

cs.CV2024★ 15 cited

Rip-NeRF: Anti-aliasing Radiance Fields with Ripmap-Encoded Platonic Solids

Junchen Liu, Wenbo Hu, Zhuo Yang +6

Despite significant advancements in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), the renderings may still suffer from aliasing and blurring artifacts, since it remains a fundamental challenge t…

gr-qc2024★ 4 cited

Unveiling the existence of nontensorial gravitational-wave polarizations from individual supermassive black hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays

Dicong Liang, Siyuan Chen, Chao Zhang +1

With the strong evidence for a gravitational wave (GW) background in the nanohertz frequency band from pulsar timing arrays, the detection of continuous GWs from individual superma…

stat.ME2024★ 37 cited

A modified debiased inverse-variance weighted estimator in two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization

Youpeng Su, Siqi Xu, Yilei Ma +4

Mendelian randomization uses genetic variants as instrumental variables to make causal inferences about the effects of modifiable risk factors on diseases from observational data.…

gr-qc2024★ 14 cited

The Impact of Spin in Compact Binary Foreground Subtraction for Estimating the Residual Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background in Ground-based Detectors

Hanlin Song, Dicong Liang, Ziming Wang +1

Stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background (SGWB) contains information about the early Universe and astrophysical processes. The recent evidence of SGWB by pulsar timing arrays…

cs.CV2023★ 78 cited

CLIP in Medical Imaging: A Survey

Zihao Zhao, Yuxiao Liu, Han Wu +8

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), a simple yet effective pre-training paradigm, successfully introduces text supervision to vision models. It has shown promising resu…

stat.ME2023★ 5 cited

Analysis of dynamic restricted mean survival time based on pseudo-observations

Zijing Yang, Chengfeng Zhang, Yawen Hou +1

In clinical follow-up studies with a time-to-event end point, the difference in the restricted mean survival time (RMST) is a suitable substitute for the hazard ratio (HR). However…

stat.AP2023★ 282 cited

ggpicrust2: an R package for PICRUSt2 predicted functional profile analysis and visualization

Chen Yang, Jiahao Mai, Xuan Cao +3

Microbiome research is now moving beyond the compositional analysis of microbial taxa in a sample. Increasing evidence from large human microbiome studies suggests that functional…

stat.ME2022★ 2 cited

Doubly robust estimation of optimal treatment regimes for survival data using an instrumental variable

Junwen Xia, Zishu Zhan, Jingxiao Zhang

In survival contexts, substantial literature exists on estimating optimal treatment regimes, where treatments are assigned based on personal characteristics to maximize the surviva…

physics.bio-ph2022

ATP-Dependent Mismatch Recognition in DNA Replication Mismatch Repair

Nianqin Zhang, Yongjun Zhang

Mismatch repair is a critical step in DNA replication that occurs after base selection and proofreading, significantly increasing fidelity. However, the mechanism of mismatch recog…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 9 cited

Potentialities of Hubble parameter and expansion rate function data to alleviate Hubble tension

Yingjie Yang, Xuchen Lu, Lei Qian +1

Taking advantage of Gaussian process (GP), we obtain an improved estimate of the Hubble constant, km s Mpc, using Hubble parameter [] from co…

stat.ME2021★ 6 cited

A Nonparametric Statistical Method for Two Crossing Survival Curves

Xinghui Huang, Jingjing Lyu, Yawen Hou +1

In comparative research on time-to-event data for two groups, when two survival curves cross each other, it may be difficult to use the log-rank test and hazard ratio (HR) to prope…

stat.AP2021★ 14 cited

Dynamic prediction and analysis based on restricted mean survival time in survival analysis with nonproportional hazards

Zijing Yang, Hongji Wu, Yawen Hou +2

In the process of clinical diagnosis and treatment, the restricted mean survival time (RMST), which reflects the life expectancy of patients up to a specified time, can be used as…

stat.AP2021★ 20 cited

Implementation of an alternative method for assessing competing risks: restricted mean time lost

Hongji Wu, Hao Yuan, Zijing Yang +2

In clinical and epidemiological studies, hazard ratios are often applied to compare treatment effects between two groups for survival data. For competing risks data, the correspond…

stat.AP2021

Combined tests based on restricted mean time lost for competing risks data

Jingjing Lyu, Yawen Hou, Zheng Chen

Competing risks data are common in medical studies, and the sub-distribution hazard (SDH) ratio is considered an appropriate measure. However, because the limitations of hazard its…