Deep learning predicts AMD progression from longitudinal fundus images.
problem Predicting future stages of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
method InceptionV3 feature vectors, interval scaling, Recurrent Neural Network.
result 0.878 sensitivity, 0.887 specificity, 0.950 AUC.
Proposes a neural network for dynamic risk prediction of AMD using longitudinal fundus images.
problem Dynamic risk prediction for progressive eye disorders like AMD.
method tdCoxSNN, a time-dependent Cox survival neural network integrating CNN.
result Demonstrates commendable predictive performance in AMD and PBC datasets.
New method extracts brain age from MRI sequences over time.
problem Lack of ground-truth labels in longitudinal neuroimaging data.
method Combines factor disentanglement with self-supervised learning.
result Extracts brain age information from MRI sequences.
Deep neural networks are a family of computational models that have led to a dramatical improvement of the state of the art in several domains such as image, voice or text analysis. These methods provide a framework to model complex, non-linear interactions in large datasets, and are naturally suited to the analysis of…
Hierarchical geodesic model for analyzing shapes on manifolds.
problem Analyzing temporal observations on manifold-valued data.
method Adapted functional-based metric for efficiency; variational time discretization of geodesics.
result Performed hypothesis tests and estimated mean trends in longitudinal analysis.
With the increased need for multi-center magnetic resonance imaging studies, problems arise related to differences in hardware and software between centers. Namely, current algorithms for brain volume quantification are unreliable for the longitudinal assessment of volume changes in this type of setting. Currently most…
The knot coloring polynomial defined by Eisermann for a finite pointed group is generalized to an infinite pointed group as the longitudinal mapping invariant of a knot. In turn this can be thought of as a generalization of the quandle 2-cocycle invariant for finite quandles. If the group is a topological group then th…
Objective: Ultrasound elastography is gaining traction as an accessible and useful diagnostic tool for such things as cancer detection and differentiation and thyroid disease diagnostics. Unfortunately, state of the art shear wave imaging techniques, essential to promote this goal, are limited to high-end ultrasound ha…
A tutorial on various methods for clustering longitudinal data.
problem Identifying groups with different trends in longitudinal data.
method Group-based trajectory modeling, growth mixture modeling, longitudinal k-means.
result Strengths, limitations, and model extensions of the methods are discussed.
To accurately analyze changes of anatomical structures in longitudinal imaging studies, consistent segmentation across multiple time-points is required. Existing solutions often involve independent registration and segmentation components. Registration between time-points is used either as a prior for segmentation in a…
LPCI provides valid prediction intervals for longitudinal data.
problem Current conformal prediction methods for time series data lack cross-sectional coverage when applied to longitudinal datasets.
method Modeling residual data as a quantile fixed-effects regression problem, constructing prediction intervals with a trained quantile regressor.
result LPCI achieves valid cross-sectional coverage and outperforms existing benchmarks in terms of longitudinal coverage rates.
Study uses 1D-CNNs to forecast mortality in ELSA survey.
problem Forecasting mortality in the middle-aged and older population.
method 1D-CNNs applied to longitudinal data with various over/undersampling and activation functions.
result Swish nonlinearity outperforms other functions in forecasting mortality.
Deep learning for integrating diverse clinical measurements.
problem Combining data from different measurement instruments in longitudinal clinical registries.
method Domain adaptation using deep learning for mapping items from different instruments.
result Domain adaptation can recover latent trajectories even with limited data and misalignment.
GANs improve longitudinal data imputation but face challenges in missing data and class imbalance.
problem Missing data and class imbalance in longitudinal data.
method GANs applied to longitudinal data imputation (LDI).
result GANs show potential but need more versatile approaches.
Study compares resampling methods for rare event prediction in longitudinal studies.
problem Predicting rare events in longitudinal follow-up studies.
method Comparison of resampling methods to improve standard regression models.
result Effect of sampling rate on model predictive performance.
We propose a method to predict the subject-specific longitudinal progression of brain structures extracted from baseline MRI, and evaluate its performance on Alzheimer's disease data. The disease progression is modeled as a trajectory on a group of diffeomorphisms in the context of large deformation diffeomorphic metri…
latrend simplifies longitudinal clustering for numeric measurements.
problem Clustering of longitudinal data to identify common trends over time.
method Unified framework for applying various clustering methods.
result Facilitates comparison and rapid prototyping of new methods.
New method models longitudinal data using variational inference and normalizing flows.
problem Handling high-dimensional longitudinal data with time dependency.
method Variational inference with normalizing flows for latent variables.
result The method achieves better likelihood estimates and more reliable missing data imputation.
While studying response trajectory, often the population of interest may be diverse enough to exist distinct subgroups within it and the longitudinal change in response may not be uniform in these subgroups. That is, the timeslope and/or influence of covariates in longitudinal profile may vary among these different sub…
In this paper we consider a family of Dirac-type operators on fibration P→B equivariant with respect to an action of an etale groupoid. Such a family defines an element in the bivariant K theory. We compute the action of the bivariant Chern character of this element on the image of Connes' map Φ in the cyclic…
The paper studies quandles over a hyperboloid and computes a knot invariant.
problem Computing knot invariants for specific algebraic structures.
method Defined quandles over a hyperboloid and computed a longitudinal mapping invariant.
result Computed a new knot invariant for SL(2,R). We study regularized estimation in high-dimensional longitudinal classification problems, using the lasso and fused lasso regularizers. The constructed coefficient estimates are piecewise constant across the time dimension in the longitudinal problem, with adaptively selected change points (break points). We present an…
Automates kernel discovery for longitudinal data analysis.
problem Handling irregularly sampled, sparse longitudinal data with multilevel correlation.
method Combines deep neural networks and non-parametric kernel methods to discover complex multilevel correlation structure.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark data sets.
TransformerLSR models longitudinal, recurrent, and survival data jointly.
problem Joint modeling of longitudinal measurements, recurrent events, and survival data with dependencies.
method Transformer-based deep learning framework integrating deep temporal point processes and latent structure representation.
result TransformerLSR effectively models all three components simultaneously, demonstrating necessity and effectiveness through simulations and real-world data.
CausalLongPFN predicts counterfactual outcomes from time-series data.
problem Predicting future outcomes under varying treatments in time-series data with confounding and heterogeneity.
method Prior-fitted network pretrained on synthetic episodes of temporal structural causal models.
result CausalLongPFN outperforms domain-trained models on factual and counterfactual prediction tasks.
New method calibrates asynchronous, error-prone covariates for longitudinal data.
problem Estimation biases and slow convergence in analyzing time-varying covariates with measurement error.
method Functional calibration approach based on functional principal component analysis.
result Asymptotically unbiased and consistent estimators for time-invariant coefficients; optimal convergence rate for time-varying coefficients.
HL-VAE extends VAE for heterogeneous temporal and longitudinal data.
problem Handling heterogeneous data in temporal and longitudinal datasets.
method Proposes HL-VAE, an extension of existing VAEs for temporal and longitudinal data, incorporating likelihood models for various data types.
result HL-VAE achieves competitive performance in missing value imputation and predictive accuracy.
Develops privacy-preserving methods for longitudinal linear regression.
problem Protecting individual information in longitudinal data with privacy-preserving statistics.
method Proposes a user-level private regression estimator and a privatized covariance estimator for longitudinal linear regression under user-level differential privacy.
result Establishes theoretical guarantees for practical user-level differential privacy estimation and inference in longitudinal linear regression.
A scalable model for high-dimensional longitudinal data.
problem Modeling high-dimensional, non-linear, time-varying longitudinal data.
method LMM-VAE, combining linear mixed models and amortized variational inference.
result Competitive performance across simulated and real-world datasets.
Develops new algorithms for QRF to handle mixed-frequency and longitudinal data.
problem Handling mixed-frequency and longitudinal data in quantile regression.
method Mixed-Frequency Quantile Regression Forest (MIDAS-QRF) and Finite Mixture Quantile Regression Forest (FM-QRF).
result Valid and flexible models for complex empirical settings in financial risk management and climate-change impact evaluation.
CDM models counterfactual outcomes in longitudinal data with improved accuracy.
problem Predicting counterfactual outcomes in longitudinal data with complex time-dependent confounding.
method Causal Diffusion Model (CDM) using denoising diffusion architecture with relational self-attention.
result CDM outperforms state-of-the-art methods in generating full probabilistic distributions of counterfactual outcomes.
Finite mixture models have become a popular tool for clustering. Amongst other uses, they have been applied for clustering longitudinal data and clustering high-dimensional data. In the latter case, a latent Gaussian mixture model is sometimes used. Although there has been much work on clustering using latent variables…
Model uses smartphone data to assess MS trajectories.
problem Personalized longitudinal MS assessment.
method Imputation, generalized estimation equation, ensemble learning, fine-tuning.
result Promising model for predicting MS over time.
Bayesian Causal Forests model assesses part-time work's impact on student growth.
problem Estimating causal effects of part-time work on student growth in mathematics achievement.
method Longitudinal Bayesian Causal Forests model combining non-parametric and difference-in-differences methods.
result Negative impact of part-time work for most students, potential benefits for those with low school belonging, widening achievement gap identified.
Develops algorithm to find subgroups with different treatment effects in HIV patients.
problem Estimating treatment effects in EHR data with challenges like time-varying confounding.
method SDLD algorithm combining generalized interaction tree and longitudinal targeted maximum likelihood estimation.
result Identifies subgroups of HIV patients at higher risk of weight gain with dolutegravir-containing ARTs.
TraCeR uses transformers to analyze survival data with longitudinal covariates.
problem Handling longitudinal covariates and assessing model calibration in survival analysis.
method Transformer-based survival analysis framework with factorized self-attention architecture.
result TraCeR achieves significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art methods.
DEBIAS learns causal effects from psychiatric longitudinal data by optimizing outcome weights.
problem Causal inference challenges in psychiatric longitudinal data due to symptom heterogeneity and latent confounding.
method DEBIAS algorithm that optimizes outcome weights to maximize durable treatment effects and minimize confounding.
result DEBIAS consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in recovering causal effects for clinically interpretable composite outcomes.
This paper reviews random forest methods for analyzing longitudinal data in precision medicine.
problem Analyzing longitudinal data for precision medicine.
method Extensions of random forest for longitudinal data analysis.
result Categorization of random forest methods for different data structures and repeated measurements.
VTD uses deep embeddings to estimate treatment effects from longitudinal data without unconfoundedness assumption.
problem Challenges in estimating individualized treatment effects from longitudinal observational data due to confounding bias.
method Leverages deep variational embeddings and observed proxies to learn hidden confounders.
result Effective in estimating treatment effects when hidden confounding is the leading bias.
Proposes a method for valid inference in GPLSIMs with longitudinal data.
problem Challenges in longitudinal data inference due to within-subject correlation and unstable variance estimation.
method Profile estimating-equation approach using spline approximation and block empirical likelihood.
result Block empirical likelihood ratio statistic with Wilks-type chi-square limit for joint inference.
We introduce a mixed-effects model to learn spatiotempo-ral patterns on a network by considering longitudinal measures distributed on a fixed graph. The data come from repeated observations of subjects at different time points which take the form of measurement maps distributed on a graph such as an image or a mesh. Th…
Proposes L-VAE for longitudinal data analysis.
problem Analyse high-dimensional longitudinal data with missing values.
method Uses a multi-output additive Gaussian process (GP) prior to extend VAE's capability.
result Achieves highly accurate predictive performance.
We consider the problem of learning predictive models from longitudinal data, consisting of irregularly repeated, sparse observations from a set of individuals over time. Such data often exhibit {\em longitudinal correlation} (LC) (correlations among observations for each individual over time), {\em cluster correlation…
New method for analyzing multiple longitudinal data processes.
problem Exploring associations between multiple random processes observed jointly.
method Functional Generalized Canonical Correlation Analysis (FGCCA) based on multiblock Regularized Generalized Canonical Correlation Analysis (RGCCA).
result FGCCA framework is robust to sparsely and irregularly observed data.
The evaluation of white matter lesion progression is an important biomarker in the follow-up of MS patients and plays a crucial role when deciding the course of treatment. Current automated lesion segmentation algorithms are susceptible to variability in image characteristics related to MRI scanner or protocol differen…
Proposes Deep LTMLE for estimating dynamic treatment effects in longitudinal studies.
problem Estimating counterfactual mean outcomes under dynamic treatment policies in longitudinal settings.
method Uses a transformer architecture with temporal-difference learning for initial estimation, followed by TMLE correction and statistical inference.
result Demonstrates superior performance in complex, long-term scenarios compared to existing methods.
A Longitudinal Attribute-Conditioned Neural Network (LANTERN) framework for modeling health-state transition probabilities in irregular longitudinal data.
problem Estimating long-term care transition probabilities in irregular longitudinal health data.
method A neural network that learns from individual health history, incorporates time elapsed, and conditions on demographic and socioeconomic attributes.
result Improves severe disability discrimination and maintains strong calibration.
Gliomas are the most common primary brain malignancies, with different degrees of aggressiveness, variable prognosis and various heterogeneous histologic sub-regions, i.e., peritumoral edematous/invaded tissue, necrotic core, active and non-enhancing core. This intrinsic heterogeneity is also portrayed in their radio-p…