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ArticleIEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions

A New MI-Based Visualization Aided Validation Index for Mining Big Longitudinal Web Trial Data.

Zhaoyang Zhang, Hua Fang, Honggang Wang

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Article in IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhaoyang ZhangDepartment of Quantitative Health Science, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
Hua FangDepartment of Quantitative Health Science, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
Honggang WangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA.
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · USUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth · US

Funding

University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical Science and Translational SupplementUL1TR001453 · NCATS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI LUZURIAGA, KATHERINE F · 2015 to 2024
$39.0M
University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical and Translational ScienceUL1TR000161 · NCATS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI LUZURIAGA, KATHERINE F · 2012 to 2015
$11.0M
DISC: Describe Smoking Cessation in RCT Multi-Component Behavioral InterventionR01DA033323 · NIDA · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI FANG, HUA · 2013 to 2015
$701k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000161NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001453NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA033323
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Web-delivered clinical trials generate big complex data. To help untangle the heterogeneity of treatment effects, unsupervised learning methods have been widely applied. However, identifying valid patterns is a priority but challenging issue for these methods. This paper, built upon our previous research on multiple imputation (MI)-based fuzzy clustering and validation, proposes a new MI-based Visualization-aided validation index (MIVOOS) to determine the optimal number of clusters for big incomplete longitudinal Web-trial data with inflated zeros. Different from a recently developed fuzzy clustering validation index, MIVOOS uses a more suitable overlap and separation measures for Web-trial data but does not depend on the choice of fuzzifiers as the widely used Xie and Beni (XB) index. Through optimizing the view angles of 3-D projections using Sammon mapping, the optimal 2-D projection-guided MIVOOS is obtained to better visualize and verify the patterns in conjunction with trajectory patterns. Compared with XB and VOS, our newly proposed MIVOOS shows its robustness in validating big Web-trial data under different missing data mechanisms using real and simulated Web-trial data.

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clustering validationlongitudinal web trial dataMultiple imputationpattern recognitionvisualization

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PMID27482473
PMCPMC4963037
OpenAlexW2400441649

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