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Título: Latent archetypes of the spatial patterns of cancer

Ciclo de Palestras do PPGE - 2025

Palestrante: Marcos Prates

Data: 09/04/25

Duração: 15:30 - 17:00

Local: I-044-B

Laboratório de Sistemas Estocásticos (LSE)

Centro de Tecnologia (CT) - UFRJ

Resumo: The cancer atlas edited by several countries is the main resource for the analysis of the geographic variation of cancer risk. Correlating the observed spatial patterns with known or hypothesized risk factors is time-consuming work for epidemiologists who need to deal with each cancer separately, breaking down the patterns according to sex and race. The recent literature has proposed to study more than one cancer simultaneously looking for common spatial risk factors. However, this previous work has two constraints: they consider only a very small (2–4) number of cancers previously known to share risk factors. In this article, we propose an exploratory method to search for latent spatial risk factors of a large number of supposedly unrelated cancers. The method is based on the singular value decomposition and nonnegative matrix factorization, it is computationally efficient, scaling easily with the number of regions and cancers. We carried out a simulation study to evaluate the method’s performance and apply it to cancer atlas from the USA, England, France, Australia, Spain, and Brazil. We conclude that with very few latent maps, which can represent a reduction of up to 90% of atlas maps, most of the spatial variability is conserved. By concentrating on the epidemiological analysis of these few latent maps a substantial amount of work is saved and, at the same time, high-level explanations affecting many cancers simultaneously can be reached. The work was partially supported by FAPEMIG and CNPq. Joint work with Mônica De Castro, Renato Assunção and Thais Menezes.

See details  in: Menezes, T. P. and Prates, M. O. and Assunção, R. and de Castro, M. S. M.. Latent Archetypes of the Spatial Patterns of Cancer. Statistics in Medicine, 43, 5115-5137, 2024

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