268 research outputs found
Model Selection for Exposure-Mediator Interaction
In mediation analysis, the exposure often influences the mediating effect,
i.e., there is an interaction between exposure and mediator on the dependent
variable. When the mediator is high-dimensional, it is necessary to identify
non-zero mediators (M) and exposure-by-mediator (X-by-M) interactions. Although
several high-dimensional mediation methods can naturally handle X-by-M
interactions, research is scarce in preserving the underlying hierarchical
structure between the main effects and the interactions. To fill the knowledge
gap, we develop the XMInt procedure to select M and X-by-M interactions in the
high-dimensional mediators setting while preserving the hierarchical structure.
Our proposed method employs a sequential regularization-based forward-selection
approach to identify the mediators and their hierarchically preserved
interaction with exposure. Our numerical experiments showed promising selection
results. Further, we applied our method to ADNI morphological data and examined
the role of cortical thickness and subcortical volumes on the effect of
amyloid-beta accumulation on cognitive performance, which could be helpful in
understanding the brain compensation mechanism.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure
HGT: A Hierarchical GCN-Based Transformer for Multimodal Periprosthetic Joint Infection Diagnosis Using CT Images and Text
Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) is a prevalent and severe complication
characterized by high diagnostic challenges. Currently, a unified diagnostic
standard incorporating both computed tomography (CT) images and numerical text
data for PJI remains unestablished, owing to the substantial noise in CT images
and the disparity in data volume between CT images and text data. This study
introduces a diagnostic method, HGT, based on deep learning and multimodal
techniques. It effectively merges features from CT scan images and patients'
numerical text data via a Unidirectional Selective Attention (USA) mechanism
and a graph convolutional network (GCN)-based feature fusion network. We
evaluated the proposed method on a custom-built multimodal PJI dataset,
assessing its performance through ablation experiments and interpretability
evaluations. Our method achieved an accuracy (ACC) of 91.4\% and an area under
the curve (AUC) of 95.9\%, outperforming recent multimodal approaches by 2.9\%
in ACC and 2.2\% in AUC, with a parameter count of only 68M. Notably, the
interpretability results highlighted our model's strong focus and localization
capabilities at lesion sites. This proposed method could provide clinicians
with additional diagnostic tools to enhance accuracy and efficiency in clinical
practice
Estimating a Large Drive Time Matrix between Zip Codes in the United States: A Differential Sampling Approach
Estimating a massive drive time matrix between locations is a practical but
challenging task. The challenges include availability of reliable road network
(including traffic) data, programming expertise, and access to high-performance
computing resources. This research proposes a method for estimating a
nationwide drive time matrix between ZIP code areas in the U.S.--a geographic
unit at which many national datasets such as health information are compiled
and distributed. The method (1) does not rely on intensive efforts in data
preparation or access to advanced computing resources, (2) uses algorithms of
varying complexity and computational time to estimate drive times of different
trip lengths, and (3) accounts for both interzonal and intrazonal drive times.
The core design samples ZIP code pairs with various intensities according to
trip lengths and derives the drive times via Google Maps API, and the Google
times are then used to adjust and improve some primitive estimates of drive
times with low computational costs. The result provides a valuable resource for
researchers
DiffULD: Diffusive Universal Lesion Detection
Universal Lesion Detection (ULD) in computed tomography (CT) plays an
essential role in computer-aided diagnosis. Promising ULD results have been
reported by anchor-based detection designs, but they have inherent drawbacks
due to the use of anchors: i) Insufficient training targets and ii)
Difficulties in anchor design. Diffusion probability models (DPM) have
demonstrated outstanding capabilities in many vision tasks. Many DPM-based
approaches achieve great success in natural image object detection without
using anchors. But they are still ineffective for ULD due to the insufficient
training targets. In this paper, we propose a novel ULD method, DiffULD, which
utilizes DPM for lesion detection. To tackle the negative effect triggered by
insufficient targets, we introduce a novel center-aligned bounding box padding
strategy that provides additional high-quality training targets yet avoids
significant performance deterioration. DiffULD is inherently advanced in
locating lesions with diverse sizes and shapes since it can predict with
arbitrary boxes. Experiments on the benchmark dataset DeepLesion show the
superiority of DiffULD when compared to state-of-the-art ULD approaches
Learning Purified Feature Representations from Task-irrelevant Labels
Learning an empirically effective model with generalization using limited
data is a challenging task for deep neural networks. In this paper, we propose
a novel learning framework called PurifiedLearning to exploit task-irrelevant
features extracted from task-irrelevant labels when training models on
small-scale datasets. Particularly, we purify feature representations by using
the expression of task-irrelevant information, thus facilitating the learning
process of classification. Our work is built on solid theoretical analysis and
extensive experiments, which demonstrate the effectiveness of PurifiedLearning.
According to the theory we proved, PurifiedLearning is model-agnostic and
doesn't have any restrictions on the model needed, so it can be combined with
any existing deep neural networks with ease to achieve better performance. The
source code of this paper will be available in the future for reproducibility.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2011.0847
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