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20072025
most citedUnderstanding metric-related pitfalls in image analysis validation

204 citations

29 papers

cs.DB2025

The NIAID Discovery Portal: A Unified Search Engine for Infectious and Immune-Mediated Disease Datasets

Ginger Tsueng, Emily Bullen, Candice Czech +18

The NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal (https://data.niaid.nih.gov) provides a unified search interface for over 4 million datasets relevant to infectious and immune-mediated di…

stat.ME2025★ 4 cited

Retrospective score tests versus prospective score tests for genetic association with case-control data

Yukun Liu, Pengfei Li, Lei Song +2

Since the seminal work by Prentice and Pyke (1979), the prospective logistic likelihood has become the standard method of analysis for retrospectively collected case-control data,…

stat.ME2025★ 7 cited

Instability of inverse probability weighting methods and a remedy for non-ignorable missing data

Pengfei Li, Jing Qin, Yukun Liu

Inverse probability weighting (IPW) methods are commonly used to analyze non-ignorable missing data under the assumption of a logistic model for the missingness probability. Howeve…

stat.ME2025★ 4 cited

Empirical likelihood meta analysis with publication bias correction under Copas-like selection model

Mengke Li, Yukun Liu, Pengfei Li +1

Meta analysis is commonly-used to synthesize multiple results from individual studies. However, its validation is usually threatened by publication bias and between-study heterogen…

stat.ME2025★ 1 cited

A mixture distribution approach for assessing genetic impact from twin study

Zonghui Hu, Pengfei Li, Dean Follmann +1

This work was motivated by a twin study with the goal of assessing the genetic control of immune traits. We propose a mixture bivariate distribution to model twin data where the un…

q-bio.TO2024

The IBEX Imaging Knowledge-Base: A Community Resource Enabling Adoption and Development of Immunofluoresence Imaging Methods

Ziv Yaniv, Ifeanyichukwu U. Anidi, Leanne Arakkal +59

The iterative bleaching extends multiplexity (IBEX) Knowledge-Base is a central portal for researchers adopting IBEX and related 2D and 3D immunofluorescence imaging methods. The d…

stat.ME2024★ 4 cited

Conformal predictive intervals in survival analysis: a re-sampling approach

Jing Qin, Jin Piao, Jing Ning +1

The distribution-free method of conformal prediction (Vovk et al, 2005) has gained considerable attention in computer science, machine learning, and statistics. Candes et al. (2023…

q-bio.TO2024★ 1 cited

The IBEX Knowledge-Base: Achieving more together with open science

Andrea J. Radtke, Ifeanyichukwu Anidi, Leanne Arakkal +55

Iterative Bleaching Extends multipleXity (IBEX) is a versatile method for highly multiplexed imaging of diverse tissues. Based on open science principles, we created the IBEX Knowl…

q-bio.OT2024★ 2 cited

Harmonizing the Generation and Pre-publication Stewardship of FAIR Image Data

Nikki Bialy, Frank Alber, Brenda Andrews +44

Alongside molecular insights into genes and proteins, biological imaging holds great promise for deepening scientific understanding of complex cellular systems and advancing predic…

cs.LG2023

Identifying factors associated with fast visual field progression in patients with ocular hypertension based on unsupervised machine learning

Xiaoqin Huang, Asma Poursoroush, Jian Sun +3

Purpose: To identify ocular hypertension (OHT) subtypes with different trends of visual field (VF) progression based on unsupervised machine learning and to discover factors associ…

cs.CV2023★ 204 cited

Understanding metric-related pitfalls in image analysis validation

Annika Reinke, Minu D. Tizabi, Michael Baumgartner +75

Validation metrics are key for the reliable tracking of scientific progress and for bridging the current chasm between artificial intelligence (AI) research and its translation int…

stat.ME2022

Experiment-selector cross-validated targeted maximum likelihood estimator for hybrid RCT-external data studies

Lauren Eyler Dang, Jens Magelund Tarp, Trine Julie Abrahamsen +4

Augmenting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with external data may increase power at the risk of introducing bias. To select and analyze the experiment (RCT alone or combined wi…

stat.ME2022

Mediation Analyses for the Effect of Antibodies in Vaccination

Michael P. Fay, Dean A. Follmann

We review standard mediation assumptions as they apply to identifying antibody effects in a randomized vaccine trial and propose new study designs to allow identification of an est…

q-bio.QM2022★ 66 cited

Accurate Virus Identification with Interpretable Raman Signatures by Machine Learning

Jiarong Ye, Yin-Ting Yeh, Yuan Xue +16

Rapid identification of newly emerging or circulating viruses is an important first step toward managing the public health response to potential outbreaks. A portable virus capture…

stat.ME2022★ 4 cited

Confidence Intervals for Prevalence Estimates from Complex Surveys with Imperfect Assays

Damon Bayer, Michael Fay, Barry Graubard

We present several related methods for creating confidence intervals to assess disease prevalence in variety of survey sampling settings. These include simple random samples with i…

cs.CL2020★ 83 cited

PhenoTagger: A Hybrid Method for Phenotype Concept Recognition using Human Phenotype Ontology

Ling Luo, Shankai Yan, Po-Ting Lai +7

Automatic phenotype concept recognition from unstructured text remains a challenging task in biomedical text mining research. Previous works that address the task typically use dic…

stat.ME2020★ 4 cited

A linear noise approximation for stochastic epidemic models fit to partially observed incidence counts

Jonathan Fintzi, Jon Wakefield, Vladimir N. Minin

Stochastic epidemic models (SEMs) fit to incidence data are critical to elucidating outbreak dynamics, shaping response strategies, and preparing for future epidemics. SEMs typical…

math.ST2019

Test for homogeneity with unordered paired observations

Jiahua Chen, Pengfei Li, Jing Qin +1

In some applications, an experimental unit is composed of two distinct but related subunits. The response from such a unit is but we observe only $Y_1 = \min\{X_{1…

stat.ME2019★ 20 cited

Practical Valid Inferences for the Two-Sample Binomial Problem

Michael P. Fay, Sally A. Hunsberger

Our interest is whether two binomial parameters differ, which parameter is larger, and by how much. This apparently simple problem was addressed by Fisher in the 1930's, and has be…

cs.CV2019★ 68 cited

A Distance Map Regularized CNN for Cardiac Cine MR Image Segmentation

Shusil Dangi, Cristian Linte, Ziv Yaniv

Cardiac image segmentation is a critical process for generating personalized models of the heart and for quantifying cardiac performance parameters. Several convolutional neural ne…

stat.ME2018★ 7 cited

Valid and Approximately Valid Confidence Intervals for Current Status Data

Sungwook Kim, Michael P. Fay, Michael A. Proschan

We introduce a new framework for creating point-wise confidence intervals for the distribution of event times for current status data. Existing methods are based on asymptotics. Ou…

q-bio.QM2016★ 3 cited

Path integral approach to theories of diffusion-influenced reactions

Thorsten Prüstel, Martin Meier-Schellersheim

The path decomposition expansion represents the propagator of the irreversible reaction as a convolution of the first-passage, last-passage and rebinding time probability densities…

q-bio.QM2015★ 2 cited

Quantum mechanical inspired factorization of the molecule pair propagator in theories of diffusion-influenced reactions

Thorsten Prüstel, Martin Meier-Schellersheim

Building on mathematical similarities between quantum mechanics and theories of diffusion-influenced reactions, we discuss how the propagator of a reacting molecule pair can be rep…

stat.AP2014★ 20 cited

Combining isotonic regression and EM algorithm to predict genetic risk under monotonicity constraint

Jing Qin, Tanya P. Garcia, Yanyuan Ma +3

In certain genetic studies, clinicians and genetic counselors are interested in estimating the cumulative risk of a disease for individuals with and without a rare deleterious muta…