Ying Guo, PhD

Research Program

Cancer Prevention and Control
Phone Number

404-712-8646
Email Address

yguo2@sph.emory.edu

Biography

Ying Guo, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and serves as director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics at Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University.

Dr. Guo is a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.

Education

Dr. Guo earned her PhD in Biostatistics from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Titles & Roles

Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Research

Dr. Guo's research interests include imaging, mental health and biostatistics.

Publications

Dr. Guo is the Statistical Editor for Psychosomatic Medicine.

Title/Journal	Authors	Publication Date
A general framework for investigating neurodevelopment of brain functional networks using multisite and longitudinal neuroimaging. The annals of applied statistics	J Lukemire, Y Wang, Y Guo	03/01/2026
A group distributional ICA method for decomposing multi-subject diffusion tensor imaging. Biometrics	G Yang, B Wu, J Kang, Y Guo	07/03/2025
Framework for constructing an optimal weighted score based on agreement. Journal of applied statistics	Z Qiu, M Amita, L Peng, Y Guo, T Jovanovic	01/01/2025
Partial Quantile Tensor Regression. Journal of the American Statistical Association	D Sun, L Peng, Z Qiu, Y Guo, A Manatunga	12/23/2024
Structural deviations of the posterior fossa and the cerebellum and their cognitive links in a neurodevelopmental deletion syndrome. Molecular psychiatry	E Sefik, K Duan, Y Li, B Sholar, L Evans, J Pincus, Z Ammar, MM Murphy, C Klaiman, CA Saulnier, SL Pulver, AE Goldman-Yassen, Y Guo, EF Walker, L Li, JG Mulle, S Shultz	11/01/2024
Comprehensive examination of resting state fMRI connectomics yields new insights into brain function deficits in Gulf War illness after accounting for heterogeneity in brain impairment across the ill veteran population. Neuroimage. Reports	G Yang, RW Haley, Y Guo, KS Gopinath	09/01/2024
A Randomized, Sham-Controlled Trial of Cranial Electrical Stimulation for Fibromyalgia Pain and Physical Function, Using Brain Imaging Biomarkers. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE	A Ree, B Rapsas, C Denmon, M Vernon, SA Rauch, Y Guo, X Cui, JS Stevens, V Krishnamurthy, V Napadow, JA Turner, A Woodbury	01/05/2024
Longitudinal resting-state network connectivity changes in electroconvulsive therapy patients compared to healthy controls. Brain stimulation	JPAJ Verdijk, LA van de Mortel, F Ten Doesschate, JCM Pottkämper, S Stuiver, WB Bruin, CC Abbott, M Argyelan, OT Ousdal, H Bartsch, K Narr, I Tendolkar, V Calhoun, J Lukemire, Y Guo, L Oltedal, G van Wingen, JA van Waarde	01/01/2024
Unveiling hidden sources of dynamic functional connectome through a novel regularized blind source separation approach. Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)	J Ran, Y Wang, Y Guo	01/01/2024
Bayesian Spatial Blind Source Separation via the Thresholded Gaussian Process. Journal of the American Statistical Association	B Wu, Y Guo, J Kang	01/01/2024
Sparse Bayesian modeling of hierarchical independent component analysis: Reliable estimation of individual differences in brain networks. Biometrics	J Lukemire, G Pagnoni, Y Guo	12/01/2023
Overview of the 8^th Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) Shared Tasks at the AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences	AZ Klein, JM Banda, Y Guo, AL Schmidt, D Xu, JIF Amaro, R Rodriguez-Esteban, A Sarker, G Gonzalez-Hernandez	11/08/2023
Simultaneous cluster structure learning and estimation of heterogeneous graphs for matrix-variate fMRI data. Biometrics	D Liu, C Zhao, Y He, L Liu, Y Guo, X Zhang	09/01/2023
Tensor response quantile regression with neuroimaging data. Biometrics	B Wei, L Peng, Y Guo, A Manatunga, J Stevens	09/01/2023
R-Mixup: Riemannian Mixup for Biological Networks. ArXiv	X Kan, Z Li, H Cui, Y Yu, R Xu, S Yu, Z Zhang, Y Guo, C Yang	06/05/2023
LOCUS: A REGULARIZED BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION METHOD WITH LOW-RANK STRUCTURE FOR INVESTIGATING BRAIN CONNECTIVITY. The annals of applied statistics	Y Wang, Y Guo	06/01/2023
DEEP DAG LEARNING OF EFFECTIVE BRAIN CONNECTIVITY FOR FMRI ANALYSIS. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging	Y Yu, X Kan, H Cui, R Xu, Y Zheng, X Song, Y Zhu, K Zhang, R Nabi, Y Guo, C Zhang, C Yang	04/01/2023
Automatic Detection of Intimate Partner Violence Victims from Social Media for Proactive Delivery of Support. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science	Y Guo, S Kim, E Warren, YC Yang, S Lakamana, A Sarker	01/01/2023
Generalizable Natural Language Processing Framework for Migraine Reporting from Social Media. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science	Y Guo, S Rajwal, S Lakamana, CC Chiang, PC Menell, AH Shahid, YC Pharm D, N Chhabra, WJ Chao, CJ Chao, TJ Schwedt, I Banerjee, A Sarker	01/01/2023
Distributional independent component analysis for diverse neuroimaging modalities. Biometrics	B Wu, S Pal, J Kang, Y Guo	09/01/2022
Rejoinder to discussions of "distributional independent component analysis for diverse neuroimaging modalities". Biometrics	B Wu, S Pal, J Kang, Y Guo	09/01/2022
Simultaneous differential network analysis and classification for matrix-variate data with application to brain connectivity. Biostatistics (Oxford, England)	H Chen, Y Guo, Y He, J Ji, L Liu, Y Shi, Y Wang, L Yu, X Zhang	07/18/2022
FBNetGen: Task-aware GNN-based fMRI Analysis via Functional Brain Network Generation. Proceedings of machine learning research	X Kan, H Cui, J Lukemire, Y Guo, C Yang	07/01/2022
Interpretive JIVE: Connections with CCA and an application to brain connectivity. Frontiers in neuroscience	RJ Murden, Z Zhang, Y Guo, BB Risk	01/01/2022
A Multimodal Multilevel Neuroimaging Model for Investigating Brain Connectome Development. Journal of the American Statistical Association	Y Hu, M Zeydabadinezhad, L Li, Y Guo	01/01/2022
Association of Blood Donor Sex and Age With Outcomes in Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants Receiving Blood Transfusion. JAMA network open	RM Patel, J Lukemire, N Shenvi, C Arthur, SR Stowell, M Sola-Visner, K Easley, JD Roback, Y Guo, CD Josephson	09/01/2021
Feasibility of Auricular Field Stimulation in Fibromyalgia: Evaluation by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Randomized Trial. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)	A Woodbury, V Krishnamurthy, M Gebre, V Napadow, C Bicknese, M Liu, J Lukemire, J Kalangara, X Cui, Y Guo, R Sniecinski, B Crosson	03/18/2021
Bayesian Joint Modeling of Multiple Brain Functional Networks. Journal of the American Statistical Association	J Lukemire, S Kundu, G Pagnoni, Y Guo	01/01/2021
HINT: A hierarchical independent component analysis toolbox for investigating brain functional networks using neuroimaging data. Journal of neuroscience methods	J Lukemire, Y Wang, A Verma, Y Guo	07/15/2020
Nonparametric estimation of broad sense agreement between ordinal and censored continuous outcomes. Statistics in medicine	T Dai, Y Guo, L Peng, A Manatunga	06/30/2020
A New Functional Representation of Broad Sense Agreement. Statistics & probability letters	B Wei, T Dai, L Peng, Y Guo, A Manatunga	03/01/2020
Template Independent Component Analysis: Targeted and Reliable Estimation of Subject-level Brain Networks using Big Data Population Priors. Journal of the American Statistical Association	AF Mejia, MB Nebel, Y Wang, BS Caffo, Y Guo	01/01/2020
A Novel Joint Brain Network Analysis Using Longitudinal Alzheimer's Disease Data. Scientific reports	S Kundu, J Lukemire, Y Wang, Y Guo	12/20/2019
A difference degree test for comparing brain networks. Human brain mapping	IA Higgins, S Kundu, KS Choi, HS Mayberg, Y Guo	10/15/2019
Genome-wide identification of DNA methylation QTLs in whole blood highlights pathways for cardiovascular disease. Nature communications	T Huan, R Joehanes, C Song, F Peng, Y Guo, M Mendelson, C Yao, C Liu, J Ma, M Richard, G Agha, W Guan, LM Almli, KN Conneely, J Keefe, SJ Hwang, AD Johnson, M Fornage, L Liang, D Levy	09/19/2019
Statistical methods for characterizing transfusion-related changes in regional oxygenation using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in preterm infants. Statistical methods in medical research	Y Guo, Y Wang, T Marin, K Easley, RM Patel, CD Josephson	09/01/2019
ER⁺/HER2⁺ Breast Cancer Has Different Metastatic Patterns and Better Survival Than ER^-/HER2⁺ Breast Cancer. Clinical breast cancer	CA Arciero, Y Guo, R Jiang, M Behera, R O'Regan, L Peng, X Li	08/01/2019
A Comparison of Missing-Data Imputation Techniques in Exploratory Factor Analysis. Journal of nursing measurement	C Xiao, DW Bruner, T Dai, Y Guo, A Hanlon	08/01/2019
A Smooth Nonparametric Approach to Determining Cut-Points of A Continuous Scale. Computational statistics & data analysis	Z Qiu, L Peng, A Manatunga, Y Guo	06/01/2019
Variability of Resting-State Functional MRI Graph Theory Metrics across 3T Platforms. Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging	R Hu, D Qiu, Y Guo, Y Zhao, C Leatherday, J Wu, JW Allen	05/01/2019
A hierarchical independent component analysis model for longitudinal neuroimaging studies. NeuroImage	Y Wang, Y Guo	04/01/2019
Estimating dynamic brain functional networks using multi-subject fMRI data. NeuroImage	S Kundu, J Ming, J Pierce, J McDowell, Y Guo	12/01/2018
Integrative Bayesian analysis of brain functional networks incorporating anatomical knowledge. NeuroImage	IA Higgins, S Kundu, Y Guo	11/01/2018
Racial Disparities in HIV Antiretroviral Medication Management are Mediated by Health Literacy. Health literacy research and practice	D Waldrop-Valverde, RJ Murden, Y Guo, M Holstad, RL Ownby	10/01/2018
Understanding the Association of Internalized HIV Stigma with Retention in HIV Care. Journal of HIV and AIDS	E Valverde, A Rodriguez, B White, Y Guo, D Waldrop-Valverde	10/01/2018
Does red blood cell irradiation and/or anemia trigger intestinal injury in premature infants with birth weight ≤ 1250 g? An observational birth cohort study. BMC pediatrics	T Marin, RM Patel, JD Roback, SR Stowell, Y Guo, K Easley, M Warnock, J Skvarich, CD Josephson	08/11/2018
Circulating progenitor cells in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia. Journal of clinical apheresis	PB Sandesara, V Ramjee, N Ghasemzadeh, Y Guo, N Bhatia, Q Li, L Vaughn, C Nell-Dybdahl, EK Waller, EA Mahar, K Brigham, PWF Wilson, A Quyyumi, NA Le, LS Sperling	06/01/2018
A local agreement pattern measure based on hazard functions for survival outcomes. Biometrics	T Dai, Y Guo, L Peng, AK Manatunga	03/01/2018
A latent class analysis of PTSD symptoms among inner city primary care patients. Journal of psychiatric research	AF Rahman, A Manatunga, Y Guo, L Peng, M Warnock, KJ Ressler, T Jovanovic	03/01/2018
Central nervous system histoplasmosis: Multicenter retrospective study on clinical features, diagnostic approach and outcome of treatment. Medicine	J Wheat, T Myint, Y Guo, P Kemmer, C Hage, C Terry, MM Azar, J Riddell, P Ender, S Chen, K Shehab, K Cleveland, E Esguerra, J Johnson, P Wright, V Douglas, P Vergidis, W Ooi, J Baddley, D Bamberger, R Khairy, HR Vikram, E Jenny-Avital, G Sivasubramanian, K Bowlware, B Pahud, J Sarria, T Tsai, M Assi, S Mocherla, V Prakash, D Allen, C Passaretti, S Huprikar, A Anderson	03/01/2018
Predicting individual brain functional connectivity using a Bayesian hierarchical model. NeuroImage	T Dai, Y Guo	02/15/2017
Nonparametric Regression Method for Broad Sense Agreement. Journal of nonparametric statistics	AF Rahman, L Peng, A Manatunga, Y Guo	01/01/2017
Maternal and Neonatal Birth Factors Affecting the Age of ASD Diagnosis. Newborn and infant nursing reviews : NAINR	A Darcy-Mahoney, B Minter, M Higgins, Y Guo, LH Zauche, J Hirst	12/01/2016
Probability of an Autism Diagnosis by Gestational Age^. Newborn and infant nursing reviews : NAINR	A Darcy-Mahoney, B Minter, M Higgins, Y Guo, B Williams, LM Head Zauche, K Birth	12/01/2016
INVESTIGATING DIFFERENCES IN BRAIN FUNCTIONAL NETWORKS USING HIERARCHICAL COVARIATE-ADJUSTED INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS. The annals of applied statistics	R Shi, Y Guo	12/01/2016
Semi-Automated Volumetric and Morphological Assessment of Glioblastoma Resection with Fluorescence-Guided Surgery. Molecular imaging and biology	JS Cordova, SS Gurbani, CA Holder, JJ Olson, E Schreibmann, R Shi, Y Guo, HK Shu, H Shim, CG Hadjipanayis	06/01/2016
A general approach to categorizing a continuous scale according to an ordinal outcome. Journal of statistical planning and inference	L Peng, A Manatunga, M Wang, Y Guo, AF Rahman	05/01/2016
The Role of Depression in Retention in Care for Persons Living with HIV. AIDS patient care and STDs	JA Zuniga, M Yoo-Jeong, T Dai, Y Guo, D Waldrop-Valverde	01/01/2016
An Efficient and Reliable Statistical Method for Estimating Functional Connectivity in Large Scale Brain Networks Using Partial Correlation. Frontiers in neuroscience	Y Wang, J Kang, PB Kemmer, Y Guo	01/01/2016
One-Step Preparation of Silver Hexagonal Microsheets as Electrically Conductive Adhesive Fillers for Printed Electronics. ACS applied materials & interfaces	HM Ren, Y Guo, SY Huang, K Zhang, MM Yuen, XZ Fu, S Yu, R Sun, CP Wong	06/24/2015
Network-based characterization of brain functional connectivity in Zen practitioners. Frontiers in psychology	PB Kemmer, Y Guo, Y Wang, G Pagnoni	01/01/2015
Risk and protective factors for retention in HIV care. AIDS and behavior	D Waldrop-Valverde, Y Guo, RL Ownby, A Rodriguez, DL Jones	08/01/2014
Use of high-resolution volumetric MR spectroscopic imaging in assessing treatment response of glioblastoma to an HDAC inhibitor. AJR. American journal of roentgenology	H Shim, L Wei, CA Holder, Y Guo, XP Hu, AH Miller, JJ Olson	08/01/2014
Quantitative tumor segmentation for evaluation of extent of glioblastoma resection to facilitate multisite clinical trials. Translational oncology	JS Cordova, E Schreibmann, CG Hadjipanayis, Y Guo, HK Shu, H Shim, CA Holder	02/01/2014
Dietary self-efficacy predicts AHEI diet quality in women with previous gestational diabetes. The Diabetes educator	EP Ferranti, KM Narayan, CM Reilly, J Foster, M McCullough, TR Ziegler, Y Guo, SB Dunbar	01/01/2014
New agreement measures based on survival processes. Biometrics	Y Guo, R Li, L Peng, AK Manatunga	12/01/2013
Immune dysregulation and glucocorticoid resistance in minority and low income pregnant women. Psychoneuroendocrinology	EJ Corwin, Y Guo, K Pajer, N Lowe, D McCarthy, S Schmiege, M Weber, T Pace, B Stafford	09/01/2013
Association of IL-12p70 and IL-6:IL-10 ratio with autism-related behaviors in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: a preliminary report. Brain, behavior, and immunity	HE Ross, Y Guo, K Coleman, O Ousley, AH Miller	07/01/2013
Reducing Bias and Mean Squared Error Associated With Regression-Based Odds Ratio Estimators. Journal of statistical planning and inference	RH Lyles, Y Guo, S Greenland	12/01/2012
A general probabilistic model for group independent component analysis and its estimation methods. Biometrics	Y Guo	12/01/2011
A Framework for Assessing Broad Sense Agreement Between Ordinal and Continuous Measurements. Journal of the American Statistical Association	L Peng, R Li, Y Guo, A Manatunga	01/01/2011
A note on assessing agreement for frailty models. Statistics & probability letters	Y Guo, AK Manatunga	04/01/2010
A weighted cluster kernel PCA prediction model for multi-subject brain imaging data. Statistics and its interface	Y Guo	01/01/2010
Measuring agreement of multivariate discrete survival times using a modified weighted kappa coefficient. Biometrics	Y Guo, AK Manatunga	03/01/2009
A Fresh Look at the Discriminant Function Approach for Estimating Crude or Adjusted Odds Ratios. The American statistician	RH Lyles, Y Guo, AN Hill	01/01/2009
"Thinking about not-thinking": neural correlates of conceptual processing during Zen meditation. PloS one	G Pagnoni, M Cekic, Y Guo	09/03/2008
Predicting the brain response to treatment using a Bayesian hierarchical model with application to a study of schizophrenia. Human brain mapping	Y Guo, F DuBois Bowman, C Kilts	09/01/2008
A unified framework for group independent component analysis for multi-subject fMRI data. NeuroImage	Y Guo, G Pagnoni	09/01/2008
Modeling dose-dependent neural processing responses using mixed effects spline models: with application to a PET study of ethanol. NeuroImage	Y Guo, FD Bowman	04/01/2008
Platelet thromboxane A2 secretion in patients with major depression responsive to electroconvulsive therapy. Psychosomatic medicine	EC Bruce, Y Guo, KC Lawson, AK Manatunga, SF Auyeung, WM McDonald, N Rushing, AR Brown, N Gilles, M Emery, R Bonsall, J Porquez, Z Stowe, CB Nemeroff, DL Musselman	04/01/2008

Awards

Dr. Guo is the recipient of the following awards and honors:

Honorable Mention in 2013 Biostatistics Teaching Award, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, 2013
Paper listed in ScienceDirect's Top 25 hottest articles of NeuroImage, 2008
R.L. Anderson Award of Summer Research Conference on Statistics, 2005
International Biometric Society's Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Distinguished Student Paper Award, 2004
Travel award by the International Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis (ICRSA), 2003
Graduate Fellowship, Emory University, 2000-2004
Wu Yuzhang Scholarship of Renmin University (highest student award of Renmin Univ.), 1998
Outstanding Student Award by National Bureau of Statistics of China, 1997
Metropolitan Life Scholarship by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) of USA, 1997
World's highest prize among undergraduate students in the CALCULUS AND LINEAR ALGEBRA examination by SOA (Society of Actuaries, USA), 1996
University Fellowship, Renmin University of China, 1994-1998