Automated causal inference in application to randomized controlled clinical trials
Autor: | Ji Q. Wu, Nanda Horeweg, Marco de Bruyn, Remi A. Nout, Ina M. Jürgenliemk-Schulz, Ludy C. H. W. Lutgens, Jan J. Jobsen, Elzbieta M. van der Steen-Banasik, Hans W. Nijman, Vincent T. H. B. M. Smit, Tjalling Bosse, Carien L. Creutzberg, Viktor H. Koelzer |
---|---|
Přispěvatelé: | Radiotherapie, RS: GROW - R3 - Innovative Cancer Diagnostics & Therapy, Targeted Gynaecologic Oncology (TARGON), Translational Immunology Groningen (TRIGR), Radiotherapy |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2022 |
Předmět: |
FOS: Computer and information sciences
RISK Computer Science - Machine Learning Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence PREDICTION PORTEC TRIAL CANCER STATISTICS Machine Learning (cs.LG) STAGE-1 ENDOMETRIAL CARCINOMA Human-Computer Interaction Methodology (stat.ME) POOLED ANALYSIS Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being POSTOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY Artificial Intelligence SURVIVAL Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition RECURRENCE Software Statistics - Methodology |
Zdroj: | Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(5), 436-444. NATURE PORTFOLIO Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(5), 436-444. Nature Publishing Group Nature Machine Intelligence, 4. NATURE PORTFOLIO Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(5), 436-444. Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
ISSN: | 2522-5839 |
Popis: | Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered as the gold standard for testing causal hypotheses in the clinical domain. However, the investigation of prognostic variables of patient outcome in a hypothesized cause-effect route is not feasible using standard statistical methods. Here, we propose a new automated causal inference method (AutoCI) built upon the invariant causal prediction (ICP) framework for the causal re-interpretation of clinical trial data. Compared to existing methods, we show that the proposed AutoCI allows to efficiently determine the causal variables with a clear differentiation on two real-world RCTs of endometrial cancer patients with mature outcome and extensive clinicopathological and molecular data. This is achieved via suppressing the causal probability of non-causal variables by a wide margin. In ablation studies, we further demonstrate that the assignment of causal probabilities by AutoCI remain consistent in the presence of confounders. In conclusion, these results confirm the robustness and feasibility of AutoCI for future applications in real-world clinical analysis. Submitted to Nature Machine Intelligence. The code is publicly available via https://github.com/CTPLab/AutoCI |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
Externí odkaz: |