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20222026
most citedDeep Adaptation of Adult-Child Facial Expressions by Fusing Landmark Features

8 citations · 10 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

stat.ML2026

Copula Adapted Directed Acyclic Graph for Cluster Representation of Biomedical Data

Heranga K. Rathnasekara, Norou Diawara, Manar D. Samad

Diagnostic errors and mislabeling are common in biomedicine, which compromise the reliability of predictive models and data-driven outcomes. Stratifying unlabeled biomedical data b…

stat.CO2026

Vine Copulas for Analyzing Multivariate Conditional Dependencies in Electronic Health Records Data

Manar D. Samad, Yina Hou, Megan A. Witherow +1

Electronic health records (EHR) store hundreds of demographic and laboratory variables from large patient populations. Traditional statistical methods have limited capacity in proc…

stat.ML2025

Causal Explainability of Machine Learning in Heart Failure Prediction from Electronic Health Records

Yina Hou, Shourav B. Rabbani, Liang Hong +2

The importance of clinical variables in the prognosis of the disease is explained using statistical correlation or machine learning (ML). However, the predictive importance of thes…

q-bio.NC2024

Pilot Study to Discover Candidate Biomarkers for Autism based on Perception and Production of Facial Expressions

Megan A. Witherow, Norou Diawara, Janice Keener +2

Purpose: Facial expression production and perception in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suggest potential presence of behavioral biomarkers that may stratify individuals on the spec…

cs.HC2024

Customizable Avatars with Dynamic Facial Action Coded Expressions (CADyFACE) for Improved User Engagement

Megan A. Witherow, Crystal Butler, Winston J. Shields +5

Customizable 3D avatar-based facial expression stimuli may improve user engagement in behavioral biomarker discovery and therapeutic intervention for autism, Alzheimer's disease, f…

cs.LG2023

Prediction of Rapid Early Progression and Survival Risk with Pre-Radiation MRI in WHO Grade 4 Glioma Patients

Walia Farzana, Mustafa M Basree, Norou Diawara +6

Recent clinical research describes a subset of glioblastoma patients that exhibit REP prior to start of radiation therapy. Current literature has thus far described this population…

cs.CV2022★ 8 cited

Deep Adaptation of Adult-Child Facial Expressions by Fusing Landmark Features

Megan A. Witherow, Manar D. Samad, Norou Diawara +2

Imaging of facial affects may be used to measure psychophysiological attributes of children through their adulthood for applications in education, healthcare, and entertainment, am…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Missing Value Estimation using Clustering and Deep Learning within Multiple Imputation Framework

Manar D Samad, Sakib Abrar, Norou Diawara

Missing values in tabular data restrict the use and performance of machine learning, requiring the imputation of missing values. The most popular imputation algorithm is arguably m…