DICErClust

0.1.3

Deep Significance Clustering for Clinical Risk Stratification

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Overview

About

Maintained by Sarah AytonFirst published 2026-05-282 releasesCRAN page ↗

We provide an R implementation of Deep Significance Clustering (DICE), a self-supervised learning framework designed to identify clinically meaningful and risk-stratified patient subgroups from electronic health record (EHR) data. DICE jointly optimizes deep representation learning, clustering, and outcome prediction while enforcing statistical significance between predicted outcomes and cluster membership. This integrated optimization produces subgroups that are both clinically coherent and predictive, addressing a gap where traditional unsupervised clustering methods and supervised risk prediction models alone may fail to generate actionable clinical groupings. See Huang et al. (2021) doi:10.1093/jamia/ocab203.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("DICErClust", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-dicerclust

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-DICErClust

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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Documentation

READMEYes · 302 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 21%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Sarah Ayton

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Sarah Ayton

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Yiye Zhang

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0.1.3Latest
2026-07-09 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.2
2026-05-28
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

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First published: 2026-05-28
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
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