Faculty Profile

Timothy Johnson

Timothy D Johnson, PhD

  • Professor, Biostatistics

Statistical modeling of biomedical data. Bayesian and MCMC methodology with and emphasis on mixture models, highly correlated high dimensional data, and variable parameter spaces. Applications in medical imaging, neurology, cancer, radiology, and endocrinology.

  • PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
  • MS, University of California, Riverside, 1986
  • BS, University of California, Riverside, 1984

Research Interests:
  • Bayesian methods and MCMC.
  • Statistical image analysis.
  • Spatial point processes.
  • Statistical modeling of biomedical data.
  • Applications in neuroscience, cancer, radiology, radiation oncolocy, Psychology/Psychiatry, endocrinology, and medical imaging.

Research Projects:
Bayesian methods for big imaging data. Along with Professor Jian Kang and graduate students, we are developing fast Bayesian algorithms to handle massively large imaging data sets such as those from the ABCD Consortium and the UK Biobank.

Bayesian methods for functional near-infrared spectroscopy (FNIRS). Along with Ioulia Kovelman, Assoc. Prof. of Psychology, I am developing fully Bayesian methods to analyze the spatio-temporal data obtained by fNIRS.

Bayesian methods for the analysis of pre-surgical fMRI data. I am interested in Bayesian method to analyze single subject fMRI data in the pre-surgical setting. Neurosurgeons are increasingly relying on fMRI data to assist in pre-surgical planning. What is unique and different about this setting is that false-negatives are arguably more important than false-positive signals and both types of errors need to be accounted.

Samartsidis, P., Eickhoof, C. R., Eickhoff, S. B., Wager, T. D., Feldman Barrett, S., Atzil, S., Johnson, T. D., Nichols, T. E. (2018) Bayesian log-Gaussian Cox process regression: with applications to meta-analysis of neuroimaging working memory studies. JRSSC

Teng, M., Johnson, T. D., Nathoo, F. S. (2018) Time Series Analysis of fMRI Data: Spatial Modelling and Bayesian Computation. Statistics in Medicine 37 2753-2770. DOI: 10.1002/sim.7680

Liu, Z., Bartsch, A. J., Berrocal, V. J., Johnson, T. D. (2018) A mixed-effects, spatially varying coefficients model with application to multi-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging data. Statistical Methods in Medical Research DOI: 10.1177/0962280217752378

Montagna, S., Wager, T., Feldman Barrett, L., Johnson, T. D., Nichols, T. E. (2017) Spatial Bayesian Latent Factor Regression Modeling of Coordinate-based Meta-analysis Data. Biometrics PMCID: PMC5682245.

Samartsidis, P., Montagna, S., Johnson, T. D., Nichols, T. E. (2017) The Coordinate-Based Meta- Analysis of Neuroimaging Data. Statistical Science 32(4) 580-599. DOI: 10.1214/17-STS624, PM- CID: PMC5849270.

Teng, M., Nathoo, F., Johnson, T. D. (2017) Bayesian Computation for Log-Gaussian Cox Pro- cesses: A Comparative Analysis of Methods. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 87:11, 2227-2252, DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2017.1326117, PMCID: PMC5708893.

Liu, Z., Berrocal, V. J., Bartsch, A. J., Johnson, T. D. (2016) Pre-surgical fMRI data analysis using a spatially adaptive conditionally autoregressive model. Bayesian Analysis 11(2), 599-625. PMCID: PMC4814103.

Carlson, N. E., Grunwald, G. K., Johnson, T. D. (2016) Using Cox cluster processes to model the pulse generating mechanism driving time series of hormone data. Biostatistics 17(2), 320-333. doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxv046.

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Areas of Expertise: Biostatistics