publications

Selected publications in reversed chronological order.

See my Google Scholar page for a complete and up-to-date list.

2025

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    Comparative diagnostic accuracy of GPT-4o and LLaMA 3-70b: Proprietary vs. open-source large language models in radiology
    David Li, Kartik Gupta, Mousumi Bhaduri, Paul Sathiadoss, Sahir Bhatnagar, and Jaron Chong
    Clinical Imaging, 2025

2024

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    Accelerated gradient methods for sparse statistical learning with nonconvex penalties
    Kai Yang, Masoud Asgharian, and Sahir Bhatnagar
    Statistics and Computing, 2024
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    Variable selection for individualised treatment rules with discrete outcomes
    Zeyu Bian, Erica EM Moodie, Susan M Shortreed, Sylvie D Lambert, and Sahir Bhatnagar
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, 2024
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    Case-Base Neural Network: Survival analysis with time-varying, higher-order interactions
    Jesse Islam, Maxime Turgeon, Robert Sladek, and Sahir Bhatnagar
    Machine Learning with Applications, 2024
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    Investigating Sensitive Issues in Class Through Randomized Response Polling
    Christian Genest, James A Hanley, and Sahir R Bhatnagar
    Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
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    Comparing GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 accuracy and drift in radiology diagnosis please cases
    David Li, Kartik Gupta, Mousumi Bhaduri, Paul Sathiadoss, Sahir Bhatnagar, and Jaron Chong
    Radiology, 2024
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    A multimodal neural network with gradient blending improves predictions of survival and metastasis in sarcoma
    Anthony Bozzo, Alex Hollingsworth, Subrata Chatterjee, Aditya Apte, Jiawen Deng, Simon Sun, William Tap, Ahmed Aoude, Sahir Bhatnagar, and John H Healey
    npj Precision Oncology, 2024
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    Development of Machine Learning Models for Predicting the 1-Year Risk of Reoperation After Lower Limb Oncological Resection and Endoprosthetic Reconstruction Based on Data From the PARITY Trial
    Jiawen Deng, Myron Moskalyk, Matthew Shammas-Toma, Ahmed Aoude, Michelle Ghert, Sahir Bhatnagar, and Anthony Bozzo
    Journal of surgical oncology, 2024
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    Hierarchical selection of genetic and gene by environment interaction effects in high-dimensional mixed models
    Julien St-Pierre, Karim Oualkacha, and Sahir Rai Bhatnagar
    Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2024

2023

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    A sparse additive model for high-dimensional interactions with an exposure variable
    Sahir R Bhatnagar, Tianyuan Lu, Amanda Lovato, David L Olds, Michael S Kobor, Michael J Meaney, Kieran O’Donnell, Archer Y Yang, and Celia MT Greenwood
    Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2023
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    Efficient penalized generalized linear mixed models for variable selection and genetic risk prediction in high-dimensional data
    Julien St-Pierre, Karim Oualkacha, and Sahir Rai Bhatnagar
    Bioinformatics, 2023
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    Predicting histopathology markers of endometrial carcinoma with a quantitative image analysis approach based on spherical harmonics in multiparametric MRI
    Thierry L Lefebvre, Ozan Ciga, Sahir Rai Bhatnagar, Yoshiko Ueno, Sameh Saif, Eric Winter-Reinhold, Anthony Dohan, Philippe Soyer, Reza Forghani, Kaleem Siddiqi, and  others
    Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, 2023
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    Tailoring variable selection and ranking for optimal treatment decisions
    Zeyu Bian, Erica EM Moodie, Susan M Shortreed, Sylvie Lambert, and Sahir Bhatnagar
    Handbook of Statistical Methods for Precision Medicine, 2023

2022

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    Sparse Bayesian Predictive Modelling of Tumor Response Using Radiomic Features
    Shirin Golchi, Jingyan Fu, Xiaoyang Liu, Eugene Yu, Reza Forghani, and Sahir Bhatnagar
    Stat, 2022
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    The “Poisson” distribution: history, reenactments, adaptations
    James A Hanley, and Sahir Bhatnagar
    The American Statistician, 2022
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    Novel mobility index tracks COVID-19 transmission following stay-at-home orders
    Peter Hyunwuk Her, Sahar Saeed, Khai Hoan Tram, and Sahir R Bhatnagar
    Scientific reports, 2022
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    Considering strategies for SNP selection in genetic and polygenic risk scores
    Julien St-Pierre, Xinyi Zhang, Tianyuan Lu, Lai Jiang, Xavier Loffree, Linbo Wang, Sahir Bhatnagar, and Celia MT Greenwood
    Frontiers in Genetics, 2022
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    Deep Learning and Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Orthopaedic Surgery
    Anthony Bozzo, James MG Tsui, Sahir Bhatnagar, and Jonathan Forsberg
    JAAOS-Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2022
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    casebase: An Alternative Framework for Survival Analysis and Comparison of Event Rates
    Sahir Bhatnagar, Maxime Turgeon, Jesse Islam, James A. Hanley, and Olli Saarela
    The R Journal, 2022
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    Malignancy risk stratification of cystic renal lesions based on a contrast-enhanced CT-based machine learning model and a clinical decision algorithm
    Jérémy Dana, Thierry L Lefebvre, Peter Savadjiev, Sylvain Bodard, Simon Gauvin, Sahir Rai Bhatnagar, Reza Forghani, Olivier Hélénon, and Caroline Reinhold
    European Radiology, 2022

2021

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    Polygenic risk score for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol is associated with risk of ischemic heart disease and enriches for individuals with familial hypercholesterolemia
    Haoyu Wu, Vincenzo Forgetta, Sirui Zhou, Sahir R Bhatnagar, Guillaume Pare, and J Brent Richards
    Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, 2021
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    Variable selection in regression-based estimation of dynamic treatment regimes
    Zeyu Bian, Erica EM Moodie, Susan M Shortreed, and Sahir Bhatnagar
    Biometrics, 2021
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    Block coordinate descent algorithm improves variable selection and estimation in error-in-variables regression
    Célia Escribe, Tianyuan Lu, Julyan Keller-Baruch, Vincenzo Forgetta, Bowei Xiao, J Brent Richards, Sahir Bhatnagar, Karim Oualkacha, and Celia MT Greenwood
    Genetic Epidemiology, 2021
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    Improved detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at chest ct using the mean curvature of isophotes
    Peter Savadjiev, Benoit Gallix, Morteza Rezanejad, Sahir Bhatnagar, Alexandre Semionov, Kaleem Siddiqi, Reza Forghani, Caroline Reinhold, David H Eidelman, and Ronald J Dandurand
    Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, 2021

2020

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    Simultaneous SNP selection and adjustment for population structure in high dimensional prediction models
    Sahir R Bhatnagar, Yi Yang, Tianyuan Lu, Erwin Schurr, JC Loredo-Osti, Marie Forest, Karim Oualkacha, and Celia MT Greenwood
    PLoS genetics, 2020
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    Development of a polygenic risk score to improve screening for fracture risk: a genetic risk prediction study
    Vincenzo Forgetta, Julyan Keller-Baruch, Marie Forest, Audrey Durand, Sahir Bhatnagar, John P Kemp, Maria Nethander, Daniel Evans, John A Morris, Douglas P Kiel, and  others
    PLoS medicine, 2020
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    Improved prediction of fracture risk leveraging a genome-wide polygenic risk score
    Tianyuan Lu, Vincenzo Forgetta, Julyan Keller-Baruch, Maria Nethander, Derrick Bennett, Marie Forest, Sahir Bhatnagar, Robin Walters, Kuang Lin, Zhengming Chen, and  others
    2020

2019

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    Identification of new therapeutic targets for osteoarthritis through genome-wide analyses of UK Biobank data
    Ioanna Tachmazidou, Konstantinos Hatzikotoulas, Lorraine Southam, Jorge Esparza-Gordillo, Valeriia Haberland, Jie Zheng, Toby Johnson, Mine Koprulu, Eleni Zengini, Julia Steinberg, Jeremy Wilkinson, Sahir Bhatnagar, and  others
    Nature genetics, 2019

2018

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    An analytic approach for interpretable predictive models in high-dimensional data in the presence of interactions with exposures
    Sahir Rai Bhatnagar, Yi Yang, Budhachandra Khundrakpam, Alan C Evans, Mathieu Blanchette, Luigi Bouchard, and Celia MT Greenwood
    Genetic epidemiology, 2018

2016

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    Gene coexpression analyses differentiate networks associated with diverse cancers harboring TP53 missense or null mutations
    Kathleen Oros Klein, Karim Oualkacha, Marie-Hélène Lafond, Sahir Bhatnagar, Patricia N Tonin, and Celia MT Greenwood
    Frontiers in genetics, 2016

2015

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    Comparing alternating logistic regressions to other approaches to modelling correlated binary data
    SR Bhatnagar, J Atherton, and A Benedetti
    Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 2015