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most citedBugs as Features (Part II): A Perspective on Enriching Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis Analyses

52 citations · 140 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

q-bio.BM2023★ 5 cited

Knowledge-based Integration of Multi-Omic Datasets with Anansi: Annotation-based Analysis of Specific Interactions

Thomaz F. S. Bastiaanssen, Thomas P. Quinn, John F. Cryan

Motivation: Studies including more than one type of 'omics data sets are becoming more prevalent. Integrating these data sets can be a way to solidify findings and even to make new…

q-bio.GN2023★ 52 cited

Bugs as Features (Part II): A Perspective on Enriching Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis Analyses

Thomaz F. S. Bastiaanssen, Thomas P. Quinn, Amy Loughman

The microbiome-gut-brain-axis field is multidisciplinary, benefiting from the expertise of microbiology, ecology, psychiatry, computational biology, and epidemiology amongst other…

q-bio.GN2022★ 52 cited

Bugs as Features (Part I): Concepts and Foundations for the Compositional Data Analysis of the Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis

Thomaz F. S. Bastiaanssen, Thomas P. Quinn, Amy Loughman

There has been a growing acknowledgement of the involvement of the gut microbiome - the collection of microbes that reside in our gut - in regulating our mood and behaviour. This p…

stat.ME2022★ 11 cited

Aitchison's Compositional Data Analysis 40 Years On: A Reappraisal

Michael Greenacre, Eric Grunsky, John Bacon-Shone +2

The development of John Aitchison's approach to compositional data analysis is followed since his paper read to the Royal Statistical Society in 1982. Aitchison's logratio approach…

cs.AI2021★ 2 cited

Readying Medical Students for Medical AI: The Need to Embed AI Ethics Education

Thomas P Quinn, Simon Coghlan

Medical students will almost inevitably encounter powerful medical AI systems early in their careers. Yet, contemporary medical education does not adequately equip students with th…

q-bio.GN2021★ 8 cited

Stool Studies Don't Pass the Sniff Test: A Systematic Review of Human Gut Microbiome Research Suggests Widespread Misuse of Machine Learning

Thomas P. Quinn

In the machine learning culture, an independent test set is required for proper model verification. Failures in model verification, including test set omission and test set leakage…

cs.AI2021

Counterfactual Explanation with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Drug Target Prediction

Tri Minh Nguyen, Thomas P Quinn, Thin Nguyen +1

Motivation: Many high-performance DTA models have been proposed, but they are mostly black-box and thus lack human interpretability. Explainable AI (XAI) can make DTA models more t…

cs.AI2020★ 4 cited

Trust and Medical AI: The challenges we face and the expertise needed to overcome them

Thomas P. Quinn, Manisha Senadeera, Stephan Jacobs +2

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly of tremendous interest in the medical field. However, failures of medical AI could have serious consequences for both clinical outcomes…

cs.LG2020★ 6 cited

DeepCoDA: personalized interpretability for compositional health data

Thomas P. Quinn, Dang Nguyen, Santu Rana +2

Interpretability allows the domain-expert to directly evaluate the model's relevance and reliability, a practice that offers assurance and builds trust. In the healthcare setting,…