PMID- 38515248 OWN - NLM STAT- Publisher LR - 20240322 IS - 1520-5711 (Electronic) IS - 1054-3406 (Linking) DP - 2024 Mar 21 TI - Bayesian spatial cluster signal learning with application to adverse event (AE). PG - 1-13 LID - 10.1080/10543406.2024.2325148 [doi] AB - There is growing interest in understanding geographic patterns of medical device-related adverse events (AEs). A spatial scan method combined with the likelihood ratio test (LRT) for spatial-cluster signal detection over the geographical region is universally used. The spatial scan method used a moving window to scan the entire study region and collected some candidate sub-regions from which the spatial-cluster signal(s) will be found. However, it has some challenges, especially in computation. First, the computational cost increased when the number of sub-regions increased. Second, the computational cost may increase if a large spatial-cluster pattern is present and a flexible-shaped window is used. To reduce the computational cost, we propose a Bayesian nonparametric method that combines the ideas of Markov random field (MRF) to leverage geographical information to find potential signal clusters. Then, the LRT is applied for the detection of spatial cluster signals. The proposed method provides an ability to capture both locally spatially contiguous clusters and globally discontiguous clusters, and is manifested to be effective and tractable using hypothetical Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) data as an illustration. FAU - Yang, Hou-Cheng AU - Yang HC AD - Center for Spatial Temporal Modeling for Applications in Population Sciences, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, United States. FAU - Hu, Guanyu AU - Hu G AD - Center for Spatial Temporal Modeling for Applications in Population Sciences, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, United States. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20240321 PL - England TA - J Biopharm Stat JT - Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics JID - 9200436 SB - IM OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bayesian nonparametric OT - Markov random field (MRF) OT - Mixture of finite mixtures OT - likelihood ratio test OT - medical device data OT - spatial-Cluster Signal EDAT- 2024/03/22 06:45 MHDA- 2024/03/22 06:45 CRDT- 2024/03/22 02:03 PHST- 2024/03/22 06:45 [medline] PHST- 2024/03/22 06:45 [pubmed] PHST- 2024/03/22 02:03 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/10543406.2024.2325148 [doi] PST - aheadofprint SO - J Biopharm Stat. 2024 Mar 21:1-13. doi: 10.1080/10543406.2024.2325148.