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Bayesian Scalar on Image Regression With Nonignorable Nonresponse

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  • Xiangnan Feng
  • Tengfei Li
  • Xinyuan Song
  • Hongtu Zhu

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Medical imaging has become an increasingly important tool in screening, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of various diseases given its information visualization and quantitative assessment. The aim of this article is to develop a Bayesian scalar-on-image regression model to integrate high-dimensional imaging data and clinical data to predict cognitive, behavioral, or emotional outcomes, while allowing for nonignorable missing outcomes. Such a nonignorable nonresponse consideration is motivated by examining the association between baseline characteristics and cognitive abilities for 802 Alzheimer patients enrolled in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 1 (ADNI1), for which data are partially missing. Ignoring such missing data may distort the accuracy of statistical inference and provoke misleading results. To address this issue, we propose an imaging exponential tilting model to delineate the data missing mechanism and incorporate an instrumental variable to facilitate model identifiability followed by a Bayesian framework with Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms to conduct statistical inference. This approach is validated in simulation studies where both the finite sample performance and asymptotic properties are evaluated and compared with the model with fully observed data and that with a misspecified ignorable missing mechanism. Our proposed methods are finally carried out on the ADNI1 dataset, which turns out to capture both of those clinical risk factors and imaging regions consistent with the existing literature that exhibits clinical significance.Supplementary materials for this article, including a standardized description of the materials available for reproducing the work, are available as an online supplement.

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  • Xiangnan Feng & Tengfei Li & Xinyuan Song & Hongtu Zhu, 2020. "Bayesian Scalar on Image Regression With Nonignorable Nonresponse," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 115(532), pages 1574-1597, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:jnlasa:v:115:y:2020:i:532:p:1574-1597
    DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2019.1686391
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    1. Wang, Chuchu & Song, Xinyuan, 2024. "Nonparametric quantile scalar-on-image regression," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 191(C).
    2. Liu, Hefei & Song, Xinyuan & Zhang, Baoxue, 2022. "Varying-coefficient hidden Markov models with zero-effect regions," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).

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