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ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2022

Principal Component Pursuit for Pattern Identification in Environmental Mixtures.

Elizabeth A Gibson, Junhui Zhang, Jingkai Yan, Lawrence Chillrud, Jaime Benavides, Yanelli Nunez, Julie B Herbstman, Jeff Goldsmith, John Wright, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou

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Article in Environmental health perspectives, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth A GibsonDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5119-5133
Junhui ZhangDepartment of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Jingkai YanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University Data Science Institute, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2094-2092
Lawrence ChillrudDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0727-0161
Jaime BenavidesDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1851-5155
Yanelli NunezDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA.
Julie B HerbstmanDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA.
Jeff GoldsmithDepartment of Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA.
John WrightDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University Data Science Institute, New York, New York, USA.
Marianthi-Anna KioumourtzoglouDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA.
Columbia University · US

Funding

True Metal fac coreP30ES009089 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MATTHEW S PERZANOWSKI · 1998 to 2026
$44.7M
Principal Component Pursuit to Assess Exposure to Environmental Mixtures in Epidemiologic StudiesR01ES028805 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KIOUMOURTZOGLOU, MARIANTHI-ANNA · 2018 to 2021
$2.2M
Complex Mixtures of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Relation to Cognitive DevelopmentF31ES030263 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI GIBSON, ELIZABETH ATKESON · 2019 to 2021
$75k
NIEHS NIH HHS F31 ES030263NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES009089NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES028805
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEnvironmental health researchers often aim to identify sources or behaviors that give rise to potentially harmful environmental exposures.

objectiveWe adapted principal component pursuit (PCP)-a robust and well-established technique for dimensionality reduction in computer vision and signal processing-to identify patterns in environmental mixtures. PCP decomposes the exposure mixture into a low-rank matrix containing consistent patterns of exposure across pollutants and a sparse matrix isolating unique or extreme exposure events.

methodsWe adapted PCP to accommodate nonnegative data, missing data, and values below a given limit of detection (LOD). We simulated data to represent environmental mixtures of two sizes with increasing proportions

resultsPCP-LOD recovered the true number of patterns through cross-validation for all simulations; based on an DISCUSSION: PCP-LOD serves as a useful tool to express multidimensional exposures as consistent patterns that, if found to be related to adverse health, are amenable to targeted public health messaging. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP10479.

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Environmental PollutantsEnvironmental ExposureNutrition SurveysPrincipal Component AnalysisPublic HealthEnvironmental Pollutants

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PMID36416734
PMCPMC9683097
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