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Minh Nguyen
Gia H. Ngo
Mert R. Sabuncu

GLACIAL:面向纵向影像研究的格兰杰与学习式因果分析

研究问题
在多名受试者被稀疏追踪、变量关系非线性且存在广泛缺失的纵向影像数据中,如何利用预测信息探查变量之间的动态连接?
方法与思路
作者结合格兰杰框架与多任务神经预测模型,将受试者视为独立样本,用留出受试者的平均预测准确率探查连接,并使用输入丢弃及模型插值。
材料陈述的贡献
摘要称,该方法针对传统格兰杰方法难处理的纵向数据问题,在模拟和真实医学影像数据中优于所比较的基准方法,但未报告具体数值。
阅读关注点
应核对预测准确率如何转化为连接判据、直接与间接关系如何区分,以及受试者独立性、个体异质性和缺失值处理所需的条件。
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所用摘要来自 arXiv 预印本,同行评审及期刊接收未核实;预测性的格兰杰连接不能仅凭摘要视为干预因果效应,比较细节未说明。

原文摘要

The Granger framework is useful for discovering causal relations in time-varying signals. However, most Granger causality (GC) methods are developed for densely sampled timeseries data. A substantially different setting, particularly common in medical imaging, is the longitudinal study design, where multiple subjects are followed and sparsely observed over time. Longitudinal studies commonly track several biomarkers, which are likely governed by nonlinear dynamics that might have subject-specific idiosyncrasies and exhibit both direct and indirect causes. Furthermore, real-world longitudinal data often suffer from widespread missingness. GC methods are not well-suited to handle these issues. In this paper, we propose an approach named GLACIAL (Granger and LeArning-based CausalIty Analysis for Longitudinal studies) to fill this methodological gap by marrying GC with a multi-task neural forecasting model. GLACIAL treats subjects as independent samples and uses the model's average prediction accuracy on hold-out subjects to probe causal links. Input dropout and model interpolation are used to efficiently learn nonlinear dynamic relationships between a large number of variables and to handle missing values respectively. Extensive simulations and experiments on a real longitudinal medical imaging dataset show GLACIAL beating competitive baselines and confirm its utility. Our code is available at https://github.com/mnhng/GLACIAL.

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