“…By contrast, our proposed analysis is a type of machine learning framework that considers all image measurements together to identify the subset of measurements (called patterns) specific to HIV and then relates the significance of the pattern to its accuracy in distinguishing individuals with HIV from CTRLs. A popular approach for identifying patterns uses sparse classifiers [12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 8], which assume that only a few measurements are informative for distinguishing cohorts. After identifying a pattern, the corresponding measures are often applied to a second (non-sparse) approach, which focuses only on improving classification accuracy [17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22].…”