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Lasai Barreñada, "Lasso"

@lasaibarrenada.bsky.social

Learning to research less but better at KU Leuven. Statistics and models for medicine.

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The fundamental problem of risk prediction for individuals: health AI, uncertainty, and personalized medicine Background: Clinical prediction models for a health condition are commonly evaluated regarding performance for a population, although decisions are made for individuals. The classic view relates uncer...

In our latest work, we show that risk estimates for patients are HUGELY uncertain due to model, data, and population uncertainty. Even for well performing models (c statistic, calibration, utility) based on large N.
@laure_wynants @ESteyerberg @lasaibarrenada.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2506.17141

29.08.2025 08:27 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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What a great day yesterday! 🎉 Dr. Shan Gao and Dr. Elena Albu successfully defended their PhDs on the dynamic prediction of CLABSI using EHR data. A huge milestone after four years of dedicated research!

02.04.2025 09:23 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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PROBAST+AI is out! A risk of bias tool for prediction models developed using any kind of analytical approach (stats/ml/ai/ds)

Really proud of this collaboration with many prediction model experts around the world

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

24.03.2025 11:16 — 👍 60    🔁 28    💬 1    📌 0
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I will be presenting our recent work on individual risk estimation uncertainty at ENAR in New Orleans. Come say hi!

Work with @benvancalster.bsky.social @laurewynants.bsky.social #DoranneThomassen #EwoutSteyerberg

23.03.2025 15:35 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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PhD in Epidemiology on value-of-information from validating clinical prediction models and AI Join Maastricht University as a PhD student in Epidemiology, advancing interdisciplinary methods to ensure reliable AI in healthcare through innovative statistical and health-economic approaches. Job ...

Are you a statistician or health-economist who wants to develop new methods and who is interested in evaluating the role of diagnostic & prognostic prediction models and AI? We have an opening for a PhD position at Maastricht University!

www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3503...

21.03.2025 14:44 — 👍 13    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 4

NEW PREPRINT 📊: We propose 3 methods to obtain flexible calibration plots while accounting for clustering:

1. Clustered Group Calibration (CG-C)
2. Two-Stage Meta-Analysis Calibration (2MA-C)
3. Mixed Model Calibration (MIX-C)

Ready-to-use R code included!

12.03.2025 12:07 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to share the first paper of my PhD is published☺️!

In case you like to use class imbalance corrections, maybe it is interesting. Let me know what you think!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Many thanks to @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social, @benvancalster.bsky.social, Anne, Kim and Carl !!

27.01.2025 15:27 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Time to say goodbye to the Julius center and the beautiful city of Utrecht 👋 In just 4 short months, I’ve gained invaluable experiences, connections, and good memories. Grateful for the opportunity to grow in such an inspiring place and special thanks to @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social for hosting me 💙

24.01.2025 17:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
PhD in Epidemiology on value-of-information from validating clinical prediction models and AI PhD in Epidemiology on value-of-information from validating clinical prediction models and AI

We have two vacancies for a postdoctoral and PhD researcher at Maastricht University. They will work on the development and application of value-of-information methods for the validation of clinical risk prediction models and medical AI.

links below

20.12.2024 15:43 — 👍 21    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 4
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My favourite thing about the paper is this summary table

16.12.2024 08:50 — 👍 27    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

Just out as preprint our overview of 32 performance measures for clinical prediction models.

We recommend always including: AUROC, calibration plot, a clinical utility measure and a plot of probability distributions per outcome.

Fully reproducible code in Pyhton and R: github.com/benvancalste...

16.12.2024 14:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We've made the move across...so here’s a little thread introducing the various TRIPOD reporting guidelines to provide standards for #transparency and completeness of clinical prediction models to facilitate #reproducibility and guide #openscience

#MLSky #StatsSky #statistics #academia #EpiSky

23.11.2024 11:50 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Happy to share the first article of my PhD, which is now available as a pre-proof!

We looked at methods used to adjust existing (AI/ML) clinical prediction models to new contexts, like different hospitals, clinical domains or to a specific individual.

Curious to hear your thoughts!😃

13.12.2024 12:59 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 6    📌 0

IMO it’s a mistake to give stats to 1st year med students. It’s not why they chose medicine & they resent it. Better to wait until they have developed some curiosity for it. I argued unsuccessfully for this during my time at UCL.

25.11.2024 07:49 — 👍 38    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 0

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