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ArticleStatistics in biosciences2023

Irregular Shaped Small Nodule Detection Using a Robust Scan Statistic.

Ali Abolhassani, Marcos O Prates, Safieh Mahmoodi

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Article in Statistics in biosciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Ali AbolhassaniDepartment of Applied Mathematics, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran.
Marcos O PratesDepartamento de Estatística, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-8077-4898
Safieh MahmoodiDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spatial scan statistics based on the Poisson and binomial models are the most common methods to detect spatial clusters in disease surveillance. These models rely on Monte-Carlo simulation which are time consuming. Moreover, frequently, datasets present over-dispersion which cannot be handled by them. Thus, we have the following goals. First, we propose irregularly shaped spatial scan for the Bell, Poisson, and binomial. The Bell distribution has just one parameter but it is capable of handling over-dispersed datasets. Second, we apply these scan statistics to big maps. A fast version, without Monte-Carlo simulation, for the proposed Poisson and binomial scans is introduced. Intensive simulation studies are carried out to assess the quality of the proposals. In addition, we show the time improvement of the fast scan versions over their traditional ones. Finally, we end the paper with an application on the detection of irregular shape small nodules in a medical image. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12561-022-09353-7.

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Bell distributionLinear time subset scanMinimum spanning treeScan statisticValidity Index

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PMID36042931
PMCPMC9415267

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