Members’ Database

Area of expertise
Veterinary diagnostics, Bayesian Latent Class Models (BLCMs) applied on dichotomic test results

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Analysis of continuous data to select optimal cut-offs and/or models that incorporate covariates

Current research task
Analysis of data coming from bovine tuberculosis (bTB) ELISA tests

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Advanced Safety Assessment Methodologies, Bayesian Analysis, Probabilistic Dynamics, Structural analysis, Joint Evaluation of
Connected Health Technologies, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Human Reliability, Smart Wearable Sport and Health Solutions, Reliability Engineering, Extreme Events Analysis, Design and Optimization, Structural analysis, Uncertainty analysis, Risk and hazard analysis, Nuclear fusion research, Integrated Risk-Informed Decision Making

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Coordination of New International Projects

Current research task
Probabilistic assessment of resistance parameters for COVID-19 related decisions. The project’s activities would aim to determine the relevant resistance parameters, derive relevant formulas, acquire new knowledge and create probabilistic models, software tools and use the available data to evaluate the probabilistic parameters and their accuracy. The mathematical theory of reliability, random processes, survival and epidemiology, mathematical data analysis and statistical methods (e. g. Bayesian methods, various probabilistic distributions) will be applied in the analysis and modeling of events and dynamics. If necessary, big data analytics and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning will be used

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Microbiology, Mastitis, Epidemiology

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Genotyping of bacterial pathogens

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Epidemiology of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), Public Health, Kidney disease, Systematic reviews

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Systematic reviews, Modeling of diagnostic tests Se/ Sp, Modeling of disease prevalence

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Radiology and medical imaging, Medical research methods

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Understanding BLCMs

Current research task
Blood measurements on patients with cancer – try to identify which ones are useful markers for prediction

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Clinical aspects of infectious diseases and public health aspects related to the control of neglected tropical diseases

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1. Methodology for evaluation of diagnostic tests in absence of a diagnostic gold standard
2. Methodology for estimation of disease prevalence
3. Cost-effectiveness in different settings (high-low incomes countries)

Area of expertise
1. Epidemiological analyses of animal health and welfare data
2. Basic BLCMs for diagnostic test evaluation

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BLCMs for evaluation of diagnostic tests with continuous outcome, test dependencies and different test performances across populations, demonstrating freedom from disease

Current research task
BLCMs for the evaluation of diagnostic tests, estimate accuracy of meat inspection, scenario tree modelling for demonstrating disease freedom

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Diagnostic meta-analyses & mixture models

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Programming and systematic review of literature

Current research task
1. Use of healthcare electronic data for incidence and prevalence estimation
2. Collaboration for systematic reviews and meta-analyses

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Biostatistics, Clinical trials, Receiver Operating characteristic (ROC) curves, Neural networks

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Clinical and practical aspects, Bayesian approach

Current research task
1. Development of a web based modular platform to manage and collect data that can be easily adapted to any study design
2. Head of the Statistical Consulting Unit that can serve as a Data Coordinating Center for any study

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Patient-reported outcome measurement and use of health questionnaires as diagnostic tools

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Accounting for measurement error in prevalence estimation

Current research task
Diagnostic accuracy of the Patient Health Questionaire-9 (PHQ-9) 

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Epidemiology, Life tables, Cardiovascular prevention, Ageing

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Health economics, modelling

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Veterinary Public Health, Biostatistics, Veterinary Medical Ethics

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BLCMs with covariates and random effects

Current research task
BLCM for COVID-19 diagnostic tests

Area of expertise
Computational epidemiology

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Infectious disease epidemiology and epizootiology

Current research task
Risk perception of infectious disease and infodemiology

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Bayesian inference, MCMC, Machine learning, Deep learning

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1. Application of deep learning development of new methods (and more general machine learning) to biomedical cases like cell segmentation, histological image classification, MRI segmentation for multiple sclerosis, etc.
2.Application of MCMC techniques for Bayesian inference in survival models (hierarchical, spatial dependence, etc.)

Area of expertise
Infection prevention, Virology

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Epidemiology

Current research task
Airborne transmission of SARS-COV2

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Veterinary epidemiology and economics

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1. Sampling design for Bayesian diagnostic test evaluation
2. Bayesian methods for disease transmission and cost estimation

Current research task
I developed a compartmental model for paratuberculosis spread in a small herd (using EMULSION) and a model for human exposure assessment (using @RISK). Later this year I plan to extend these models and try to use Bayesian methods

Area of expertise
Veterinary epidemiology and infectious diseases

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Modeling, Data Analyzing, R

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1. Epidemiological analyses
2. BLCMs for diagnostic test evaluation

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Evaluation of diagnostic tests

Current research task
BLCMs for the evaluation of diagnostic tests, true prevalence estimation and poof of disease freedom

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Educating students in statistics (frequentist and Bayesian; statistics for psychologists), frequentist Latent Class Analysis, as used in social science

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Participate in writing a common-sense argumentative guide and/or creating an online tutorial on conducting analyses using BLCMs for beginners

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Networking and Knowledge sharing

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Data of true disease prevalence with BLCMs

Current research task
Epidemiological research of zoonosis

Area of expertise
BLCMs, Farm animal medicine and surgery

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Handling of continuous data

Current research task
BLCMs generalization to continuous data

Area of expertise
Application of Bayesian methods in the evaluation of diagnostic tests and true prevalence estimation

Area of interest
Available datasets that can be used to develop & apply BLCMs

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Research on complex diseases

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Bioinformatics

Current research task
Child growth, prevention of complex disease, isolated population

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Paratuberculosis, Cattle, Infectious diseases

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Modelling prevalence when the infection is latent

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Epidemiology, mainly relating with ticks and tick-borne pathogens

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1. Novel research projects dealing with the epidemiology of tick-borne pathogens, and their early warning systems (using statistical methods)
2. Writing scientific papers relating with spatial distribution of ticks and tick-borne diseases and some meta-analyses of them

Current research task
Molecular epidemiology of multiple tick-borne pathogens, which cause infection in both animals and/or humans, in ticks and vertebrate host (mainly including wild and domestic animals); such as Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), Spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae, Lyme borreliosis, babesiosis, theileriosis, anaplasmosis etc.

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Animal health economics and veterinary administration (State veterinary medicine)

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1. Application of BLCMs
2. Estimations on prevalence and production impact of diseases

Current research task
Paratuberculosis (PTBC) – related issues

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Zoonotic diseases, Vector borne diseases, Diagnostics, Methodology

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True prevalence estimation

Current research task
True prevalence estimation instead of apparent prevalence estimation (positive/analyzed), which is currently used in our research

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Anesthesia and Critical Care, Evidence based research, Statistics communicator in human medicine

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Application of BLCMs and Neural Networks

Current research task
Clinical scores for predicting COVID-19 hospitalisation, Spatiotemporal spread of COVID-19, Pain and neural networks, Medical software and health digitalization

Area of expertise
Public Health, Clinical Trials, Neglected Tropical Diseases

Area of interest
BLCMs & Metanalyses

Current research task
Metanalysis of diagnostic studies of Schistosomiasis in low prevalence settings