Fares Darawshy

Spatial mixed models for assessing environmental exposure effects on the microbiome

Environmental exposures such as air pollution may influence human health partly through microbiome, but statistical modeling is challenged by spatial dependence across regions and ecological correlations among taxa. We propose SpaMixed, a novel spatial mixed modeling framework fo...

Characterization of pulmonary embolism events in patients with suspected pneumonia

Abstract Pneumonia and pulmonary embolism (PE) share similar clinical presentations, posing a significant diagnostic challenge. We investigated whether available diagnostic modalities could identify distinct characteristics in patients suspected of pneumonia later diagnosed with...