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Survival functions (client side) for DataSHIELD. Package for building survival models, Cox proportional hazards models and Cox regression models in DataSHIELD.

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Introduction

dsSurvivalClient is a package for building survival functions (client side) in DataSHIELD (a platform for federated analysis of private data). These are client side functions for building survival models, Cox proportional hazards models and Cox regression models.

A tutorial in bookdown format with executable code is available here:

https://neelsoumya.github.io/dsSurvivalbookdown/

DataSHIELD is a platform for federated analysis of private data. DataSHIELD has a client-server architecture and this package has a client side and server side component.

If you use the code, please cite the following manuscript:

Banerjee S, Sofack G, Papakonstantinou T, Avraam D, Burton P, et al. (2022), dsSurvival: Privacy preserving survival models for federated individual patient meta-analysis in DataSHIELD, bioRxiv: 2022.01.04.471418.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.04.471418v2

https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.04.471418

https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-022-06085-1

A bib file is available here:

https://github.com/neelsoumya/dsSurvival/blob/main/CITATION.bib

Quick start

Install R

https://www.r-project.org/

and R Studio

https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/preview/

Install the following packages:

install.packages('devtools')
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github('neelsoumya/dsSurvivalClient')
devtools::install_github('datashield/[email protected]')
install.packages('rmarkdown')
install.packages('knitr')
install.packages('tinytex')
install.packages('metafor')
install.packages('DSOpal')
install.packages('DSI')
install.packages('opalr')
install.packages('patchwork')

Follow the tutorial in bookdown format with executable code:

https://neelsoumya.github.io/dsSurvivalbookdown/

This uses the Opal demo server which has all server-side packages preinstalled

https://opal-sandbox.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/

You can also see the script simple_script.R

https://github.com/neelsoumya/dsSurvival/blob/main/vignettes/simple_script.R

Installation

Screenshot of installation of package in VM

Please see the link below on how to install a package in Opal

https://opaldoc.obiba.org/en/latest/web-user-guide/administration/datashield.html#add-package

install.packages('devtools')

library(devtools)

devtools::install_github('neelsoumya/dsBaseClient')

devtools::install_github('neelsoumya/dsSurvivalClient')

If you want to use a certain release then you can do the following

library(devtools)

devtools::install_github('neelsoumya/[email protected]')

If you want to try privacy preserving survival curves (available in v2.0), you can use the main branch or you can do the following

library(devtools)

devtools::install_github('neelsoumya/dsSurvivalClient', ref = 'privacy_survival_curves')

or

library(devtools)

devtools::install_github('neelsoumya/[email protected]')

Usage

A tutorial in bookdown format is available here:

https://neelsoumya.github.io/dsSurvivalbookdown/

A screenshot of meta-analyzed hazard ratios from a survival model is shown below.

Meta-analyzed hazard ratios from survival models

For polished publication ready plots, use the following script forestplot_FINAL.R

https://github.com/neelsoumya/dsSurvival/blob/main/forestplot_FINAL.R

or the script simple_script.R

https://github.com/neelsoumya/dsSurvival/blob/main/vignettes/simple_script.R

If you want to learn the basics of survival models, see the following repository:

https://github.com/neelsoumya/survival_models

If you want to learn coding models in DataSHIELD, see the following repository:

https://github.com/neelsoumya/dsMiscellaneous

Release notes

v1.0.0: A basic release of survival models in DataSHIELD. This release has Cox proportional hazards models, summaries of models, diagnostics and the ability to meta-analyze hazard ratios. There is also capability to generate forest plots of meta-analyzed hazard ratios. This release supports study-level meta-analysis.

A shiny graphical user interface for building survival models in DataSHIELD has also been created by Xavier Escriba Montagut and Juan Gonzalez. It calls dsSurvival and dsSurvivalClient.

v1.0.1: Minor fixes.

v2.0.0: This release has privacy preserving survival curves.

v2.1.1: This has minor fixes.

v2.1.2: This has minor fixes.

v2.1.3: This has minor fixes, fixes for plotting of a stratified survival analysis and use of ggplot in plotting survival curves.

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the help and support of the DataSHIELD technical team. We are especially grateful to Elaine Smith, Eleanor Hyde, Shareen Tan, Stuart Wheater, Yannick Marcon, Paul Burton, Demetris Avraam, Patricia Ryser-Welch, Kevin Rue-Albrecht, Maria Gomez Vazquez and Wolfgang Viechtbauer for fruitful discussions and feedback.

We thank Yannick Marcon and @StuartWheater for fixes, @joerghenkebuero for suggestions about documentation, @AlanRace and Stefan Buchka for bug fixes and Xavier Escriba Montagut for a fix to the plotting functionality.

Contact

  • Soumya Banerjee, Demetris Avraam, Paul Burton, Xavier Escriba Montagut, Juan Gonzalez, Tom R. P. Bishop and DataSHIELD technical team

  • [email protected]

  • DataSHIELD

Citation

If you use the code, please cite the following manuscript:

Banerjee S, Sofack G, Papakonstantinou T, Avraam D, Burton P, et al. (2022), dsSurvival: Privacy preserving survival models for federated individual patient meta-analysis in DataSHIELD, bioRxiv: 2022.01.04.471418.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.04.471418v2

https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.04.471418

https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-022-06085-1

A bib file is available here:

https://github.com/neelsoumya/dsSurvivalClient/blob/main/project/CITATION.bib

@article{Banerjee2022,
author = {Banerjee, Soumya and Sofack, Ghislain and Papakonstantinou, Thodoris and Avraam, Demetris and Burton, Paul and Z{\"{o}}ller, Daniela and Bishop, Tom RP},
doi = {10.1101/2022.01.04.471418},
journal = {bioRxiv},
month = {jan},
pages = {2022.01.04.471418},
publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
title = {{dsSurvival: Privacy preserving survival models for federated individual patient meta-analysis in DataSHIELD}},
year = {2022}
}

Publications

The following publications describe dsSurvival

Banerjee, S., Sofack, G.N., Papakonstantinou, T. et al. dsSurvival: Privacy preserving survival models for federated individual patient meta-analysis in DataSHIELD. BMC Res Notes 15, 197 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-06085-1

Banerjee, S., Bishop, T.R.P. dsSurvival 2.0: privacy enhancing survival curves for survival models in the federated DataSHIELD analysis system. BMC Res Notes 16, 98 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06372-5

If you use the code, please cite the following manuscript:

Banerjee, S., Sofack, G.N., Papakonstantinou, T. et al. dsSurvival: Privacy preserving survival models for federated individual patient meta-analysis in DataSHIELD. BMC Res Notes 15, 197 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-06085-1