SPEED 7: Imaging, Biometrics, and Privacy, Part 1 -- JSM 2026

A Framework for Parametric Time-Varying Treatment Effects in Multi-Intervention Stepped Wedge Trial

8:35 AM - 8:40 AM

Samantha Levy (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)

Co-authors: Jose-Miguel Yamal (UT School of Public Health)

Multiple-Intervention Stepped Wedge Designs Time-varying treatment effects Parametric exposure-response functions Design- and analysis-stage misspecification Power and efficiency in cluster randomized trials Treatment effect interactions

A Framework for the Design of Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Systems

8:40 AM - 8:45 AM

Emily Gentles (RTI International)

Co-authors: Zixin Nie

Privacy preserving record linkage Privacy Security Record Linkage

A Mathematically Accurate Angular Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Phase Activation in FMRI

8:45 AM - 8:50 AM

John Bodenschatz

Co-authors: Daniel B. Rowe (Marquette University)

FMRI Maximum Likelihood Estimation Phase BOLD

Application of the Learn-As-you-GO (LAGO) Design to the PULESA-Uganda Trial: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Evaluation of Implementation Strategies for Integrating Hypertension Care into HIV Clinics in Kampala and Wakiso District, Uganda

8:50 AM - 8:55 AM

Jingyu Cui (Yale School of Public Health)

Co-authors: Judith Lok (Boston University), Mona Abdo (Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health), John Baptist Kiggundu (Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration), Drew Cameron (Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health), Fred Semitala (Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, and Department of Medicine, Makerere University), Xin Zhou (Yale University), Christopher Longnecker (University of Washington), Donna Spiegelman (Yale School of Public Health)

Adaptive study design Stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial Hypertension care integration Blood pressure control Cost-effectiveness Learn-As-you-GO (LAGO)

Assessing Compositional Equivalence for Food Safety Evaluation

8:55 AM - 9:00 AM

Bo Liu

Co-authors: Thomas Mathew (University of Maryland-Baltimore)

Food safety Genetically modified crops Likelihood ratio criterion Overlap coefficient Parametric bootstrap

Bayesian Historical Borrowing for Binary and Count Data

9:00 AM - 9:05 AM

Jing Zhang (Miami University)

Co-authors: Shixuan Wang (University of Cincinnati), Bin Zhang (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)

Historical Borrowing Bayesian analysis posterior predictive p value simulations

Case-Specific Testing of Similarity under Optimized Alignment for Bullet and Breech Face Comparisons

9:05 AM - 9:10 AM

Hana Lee (Iowa State University)

Co-authors: Alicia Carriquiry (Iowa State University)

Forensic statistics Permutation test Bullet comparison Breech face comparison Common source inference

Debiased Inference for Semi-Supervised Mixture of Experts model of Flow Cytometry Data

9:10 AM - 9:15 AM

Ziyue Zheng

Co-authors: Sangwon Hyun, Francois Ribalet (University of Washington, Seattle)

Debiased Inference Semi-supervised learning Mixture of Experts Flow Cytometry Data

EvalOx: A software tool for evaluating oximeter performance in paired repeated measures studies

9:15 AM - 9:20 AM

Ngoc Ty Nguyen (Food and Drug Administration)

Co-authors: Gene Pennello (Food and Drug Administration)

Paired repeated measures Linear mixed effect model Pulse oximeters RShiny software application

Evaluating Visual Heuristics for Subgroup Heterogeneity in Forest Plots

9:20 AM - 9:25 AM

Hyejeong Jang (Wayne State University)

Co-authors: Abhinav Deol (Wayne State University), Seongho Kim (Wayne State University)

Forest plot Heterogeneity of treatment effects Subgroup analysis

Flexible and Interpretable Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Censored Data

9:30 AM - 9:35 AM

Xiaoqi Jiao

Co-authors: Huijuan Ma, Alan Wan (City Univ of Hong Kong), Yong Zhou (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science), Richard Chappell (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Censored data Heterogeneous treatment effects Nasopharyngeal carcinoma Precision medicine Semi-parametric model

Goodness-of-fit Testing for Brain Charts Applied to New Samples

9:35 AM - 9:40 AM

Yao Xin (Medical University of South Carolina)

Co-authors: Andrew Chen

Centile scores Brain Chart Goodness of Fit Neuroimaging

GPOT: An uncertainty quantification method for cell-cell communication using spatial transcriptomics

9:40 AM - 9:45 AM

Henry Uddyback

Co-authors: Brian Reich (North Carolina State University), Matthias Katzfuss (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Spatial Statistics Spatial Transcriptomics Optimal Transport Gaussian Processes

Leveraging RWD for Post-Marketing Safety Studies: Design, Challenges, and Success

9:45 AM - 9:50 AM

Yun Ling (Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)

Co-authors: Jie Zhou (Takeda Pharmaceutical Company), Tianming Zhang (Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited), Linyun Zhou (Takeda), Peter Yu (Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc.)

MSM marginal structural model longitudinal observational treatment switch Real World Data RWD Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting IPTW time-varying

Optimal Differentially Private Group Testing for Disease Surveillance

9:50 AM - 9:55 AM

Ahmer Raza

Co-authors: Christopher McMahan, Rafael D'Oliveira (Clemson University)

Group testing Differential privacy Prevalence estimation Optimal experimental design Public health surveillance Privacy-preserving statistics

Partial least squares methods for elastic shape analysis with clinical applications

9:55 AM - 10:00 AM

Dong-wook Kim (Inha University)

Co-authors: Yeongju Kim (Inha University), Sejin Kim (Inha University), Sungmin Cho (Inha University), Min Ho Cho

Elastic shape analysis Partial least squares Riemannian manifold Dimensionality reduction Glioblastoma Visualization

Rapid Sequential Detection of Tumor-Like Changes in Synthetic Mammogram Images