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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Survival Analysis
  • Diagnostic Test Evaluation

Background:

  • Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves are standard for evaluating diagnostic marker accuracy.
  • Time-dependent ROC curves are crucial for time-to-event data but complicated by censoring.
  • Existing methods often fail to address mixed interval-censored data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a new time-dependent ROC curve estimator for time-to-event data with mixed censoring (left, right, interval).
  • To evaluate summary measures like area under the ROC curve and Youden index for the proposed estimator.
  • To develop variance estimation and confidence intervals using Bootstrap methods.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a novel time-dependent ROC curve estimator accommodating mixed censoring.
  • Estimated unknown statuses of censored subjects using conditional survival functions (model-based and nonparametric).
  • Employed Bootstrap methods for variance estimation and confidence intervals.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method efficiently utilizes available data.
  • Simulation studies showed superior finite sample performance compared to existing methods.
  • Illustrative examples from decompression sickness and oral health studies demonstrated practical applicability.

Conclusions:

  • The new time-dependent ROC curve estimator effectively handles mixed censoring in time-to-event data.
  • The method offers improved accuracy and efficiency for diagnostic marker evaluation in complex survival settings.
  • The proposed methods are available in the R package cenROC.