1.Machine Learning Prediction of Attachment Type From Bio-Psychological Factors in Patients With Depression
Yoon Jae CHO ; Jin Sun RYU ; Jeong-Ho SEOK ; Eunjoo KIM ; Jooyoung OH ; Byung-Hoon KIM
Psychiatry Investigation 2025;22(4):412-423
Objective:
Adult attachment style is linked to how an individual responds to threats or stress and is known to be related to the onset of psychiatric symptoms such as depression. However, as the current assessment of attachment type mainly relies on self-report questionnaires and can be prone to bias, there is a need to incorporate physiological factors along with psychological symptoms and history in this process. We aimed to predict the measurement of two important types of adult attachment with heart rate variability (HRV), early life stress experience, and subjective psychiatric symptoms.
Methods:
Five hundred eighty-two subjects with depressive disorder were recruited retrospectively from January 2015 to June 2021. The experience of early life stress and psychiatric symptoms were collected, and HRV measures were obtained as input for an ensembled Voting Regressor model of machine learning-based regression models, including linear regression, ElasticNet, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest, and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost).
Results:
Model performances evaluated with R-squared score averaged across 30 seeds were 0.377 and 0.188 for anxious- and avoidant-attachment, respectively. Mean absolute error averaged to 13.251 and 12.083, respectively. Shapley value importance analysis indicated that for both attachment types, the most important feature was the trait-anxiety, followed by emotional abuse, state-anxiety or self-reported depressive symptoms, and fear or helplessness felt in the moment of an early life stressor.
Conclusion
Our results provide the evidence base that may be utilized in clinical settings to predict the degree of attachment type using bio-psychological factors.
2.Atypical features of hepatic veno‑occlusive disease/sinusoidal obstruction syndrome after inotuzumab ozogamicin in adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Kyung‑Hun SUNG ; Daehun KWAG ; Gi June MIN ; Sung‑Soo PARK ; Silvia PARK ; Sung‑Eun LEE ; Byung‑Sik CHO ; Ki‑Seong EOM ; Yoo‑Jin KIM ; Hee‑Je KIM ; Chang‑Ki MIN ; Seok‑Goo CHO ; Seok LEE ; Jae‑Ho YOON
Blood Research 2025;60():28-
Purpose:
Inotuzumab ozogamicin (INO) has demonstrated a safe bridging role to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (R/R B-ALL). How‑ ever, hepatic veno-occlusive disease/sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (VOD/SOS) is frequently observed. This study aimed to identify significant features of INO-associated VOD/SOS.
Methods:
We reviewed seven cases of hepatic VOD/SOS that developed either during INO salvage or after alloge‑ neic HSCT following INO-induced complete remission (CR). Diagnosis and severity grading of VOD/SOS were based on the revised criteria from the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Defibrotide was used to treat severe to very severe cases.
Results:
Four patients developed VOD/SOS during INO salvage therapy (at 21 and 36 days post-INO1, 77 days postINO3, and 21 days post-INO5), while three were diagnosed at 2, 5, and 10 days post-HSCT following INO-induced CR.Doppler ultrasonography revealed preserved portal vein flow (range 10.2–26.0 cm/sec) and normal hepatic artery resistive index (RI, range 0.56–0.74) in all but one patient (RI 0.83). Despite this, all patients presented with massive ascites and progressively elevated total bilirubin levels. All cases were classified as severe to very severe; six were treated with defibrotide and one underwent liver transplantation. Most patients ultimately died owing to VOD/SOS progression.
Conclusion
Post-INO VOD/SOS manifested as two different clinical settings and was characterized by preserved portal vein flow, which complicated diagnosis. Despite timely defibrotide administration, clinical outcomes were poor.These findings emphasize the need for vigilance and potential consideration of prophylactic strategies for prevention of INO-associated VOD/SOS.
3.The Survival and Financial Benefit of Investigator-Initiated Trials Conducted by Korean Cancer Study Group
Bum Jun KIM ; Chi Hoon MAENG ; Bhumsuk KEAM ; Young-Hyuck IM ; Jungsil RO ; Kyung Hae JUNG ; Seock-Ah IM ; Tae Won KIM ; Jae Lyun LEE ; Dae Seog HEO ; Sang-We KIM ; Keunchil PARK ; Myung-Ju AHN ; Byoung Chul CHO ; Hoon-Kyo KIM ; Yoon-Koo KANG ; Jae Yong CHO ; Hwan Jung YUN ; Byung-Ho NAM ; Dae Young ZANG
Cancer Research and Treatment 2025;57(1):39-46
Purpose:
The Korean Cancer Study Group (KCSG) is a nationwide cancer clinical trial group dedicated to advancing investigator-initiated trials (IITs) by conducting and supporting clinical trials. This study aims to review IITs conducted by KCSG and quantitatively evaluate the survival and financial benefits of IITs for patients.
Materials and Methods:
We reviewed IITs conducted by KCSG from 1998 to 2023, analyzing progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) gains for participants. PFS and OS benefits were calculated as the difference in median survival times between the intervention and control groups, multiplied by the number of patients in the intervention group. Financial benefits were assessed based on the cost of investigational products provided.
Results:
From 1998 to 2023, KCSG conducted 310 IITs, with 133 completed and published. Of these, 21 were included in the survival analysis. The analysis revealed that 1,951 patients in the intervention groups gained a total of 2,558.4 months (213.2 years) of PFS and 2,501.6 months (208.5 years) of OS, with median gains of 1.31 months in PFS and 1.58 months in OS per patient. When analyzing only statistically significant results, PFS and OS gain per patients was 1.69 months and 3.02 months, respectively. Investigational drug cost analysis from six available IITs indicated that investigational products provided to 252 patients were valued at 10,400,077,294 won (approximately 8,046,481 US dollars), averaging about 41,270,148 won (approximately 31,930 US dollars) per patient.
Conclusion
Our findings, based on analysis of published research, suggest that IITs conducted by KCSG led to survival benefits for participants and, in some studies, may have provided financial benefits by providing investment drugs.
4.Machine Learning Prediction of Attachment Type From Bio-Psychological Factors in Patients With Depression
Yoon Jae CHO ; Jin Sun RYU ; Jeong-Ho SEOK ; Eunjoo KIM ; Jooyoung OH ; Byung-Hoon KIM
Psychiatry Investigation 2025;22(4):412-423
Objective:
Adult attachment style is linked to how an individual responds to threats or stress and is known to be related to the onset of psychiatric symptoms such as depression. However, as the current assessment of attachment type mainly relies on self-report questionnaires and can be prone to bias, there is a need to incorporate physiological factors along with psychological symptoms and history in this process. We aimed to predict the measurement of two important types of adult attachment with heart rate variability (HRV), early life stress experience, and subjective psychiatric symptoms.
Methods:
Five hundred eighty-two subjects with depressive disorder were recruited retrospectively from January 2015 to June 2021. The experience of early life stress and psychiatric symptoms were collected, and HRV measures were obtained as input for an ensembled Voting Regressor model of machine learning-based regression models, including linear regression, ElasticNet, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest, and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost).
Results:
Model performances evaluated with R-squared score averaged across 30 seeds were 0.377 and 0.188 for anxious- and avoidant-attachment, respectively. Mean absolute error averaged to 13.251 and 12.083, respectively. Shapley value importance analysis indicated that for both attachment types, the most important feature was the trait-anxiety, followed by emotional abuse, state-anxiety or self-reported depressive symptoms, and fear or helplessness felt in the moment of an early life stressor.
Conclusion
Our results provide the evidence base that may be utilized in clinical settings to predict the degree of attachment type using bio-psychological factors.
5.Machine Learning Prediction of Attachment Type From Bio-Psychological Factors in Patients With Depression
Yoon Jae CHO ; Jin Sun RYU ; Jeong-Ho SEOK ; Eunjoo KIM ; Jooyoung OH ; Byung-Hoon KIM
Psychiatry Investigation 2025;22(4):412-423
Objective:
Adult attachment style is linked to how an individual responds to threats or stress and is known to be related to the onset of psychiatric symptoms such as depression. However, as the current assessment of attachment type mainly relies on self-report questionnaires and can be prone to bias, there is a need to incorporate physiological factors along with psychological symptoms and history in this process. We aimed to predict the measurement of two important types of adult attachment with heart rate variability (HRV), early life stress experience, and subjective psychiatric symptoms.
Methods:
Five hundred eighty-two subjects with depressive disorder were recruited retrospectively from January 2015 to June 2021. The experience of early life stress and psychiatric symptoms were collected, and HRV measures were obtained as input for an ensembled Voting Regressor model of machine learning-based regression models, including linear regression, ElasticNet, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest, and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost).
Results:
Model performances evaluated with R-squared score averaged across 30 seeds were 0.377 and 0.188 for anxious- and avoidant-attachment, respectively. Mean absolute error averaged to 13.251 and 12.083, respectively. Shapley value importance analysis indicated that for both attachment types, the most important feature was the trait-anxiety, followed by emotional abuse, state-anxiety or self-reported depressive symptoms, and fear or helplessness felt in the moment of an early life stressor.
Conclusion
Our results provide the evidence base that may be utilized in clinical settings to predict the degree of attachment type using bio-psychological factors.
6.Atypical features of hepatic veno‑occlusive disease/sinusoidal obstruction syndrome after inotuzumab ozogamicin in adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Kyung‑Hun SUNG ; Daehun KWAG ; Gi June MIN ; Sung‑Soo PARK ; Silvia PARK ; Sung‑Eun LEE ; Byung‑Sik CHO ; Ki‑Seong EOM ; Yoo‑Jin KIM ; Hee‑Je KIM ; Chang‑Ki MIN ; Seok‑Goo CHO ; Seok LEE ; Jae‑Ho YOON
Blood Research 2025;60():28-
Purpose:
Inotuzumab ozogamicin (INO) has demonstrated a safe bridging role to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (R/R B-ALL). How‑ ever, hepatic veno-occlusive disease/sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (VOD/SOS) is frequently observed. This study aimed to identify significant features of INO-associated VOD/SOS.
Methods:
We reviewed seven cases of hepatic VOD/SOS that developed either during INO salvage or after alloge‑ neic HSCT following INO-induced complete remission (CR). Diagnosis and severity grading of VOD/SOS were based on the revised criteria from the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Defibrotide was used to treat severe to very severe cases.
Results:
Four patients developed VOD/SOS during INO salvage therapy (at 21 and 36 days post-INO1, 77 days postINO3, and 21 days post-INO5), while three were diagnosed at 2, 5, and 10 days post-HSCT following INO-induced CR.Doppler ultrasonography revealed preserved portal vein flow (range 10.2–26.0 cm/sec) and normal hepatic artery resistive index (RI, range 0.56–0.74) in all but one patient (RI 0.83). Despite this, all patients presented with massive ascites and progressively elevated total bilirubin levels. All cases were classified as severe to very severe; six were treated with defibrotide and one underwent liver transplantation. Most patients ultimately died owing to VOD/SOS progression.
Conclusion
Post-INO VOD/SOS manifested as two different clinical settings and was characterized by preserved portal vein flow, which complicated diagnosis. Despite timely defibrotide administration, clinical outcomes were poor.These findings emphasize the need for vigilance and potential consideration of prophylactic strategies for prevention of INO-associated VOD/SOS.
7.The Survival and Financial Benefit of Investigator-Initiated Trials Conducted by Korean Cancer Study Group
Bum Jun KIM ; Chi Hoon MAENG ; Bhumsuk KEAM ; Young-Hyuck IM ; Jungsil RO ; Kyung Hae JUNG ; Seock-Ah IM ; Tae Won KIM ; Jae Lyun LEE ; Dae Seog HEO ; Sang-We KIM ; Keunchil PARK ; Myung-Ju AHN ; Byoung Chul CHO ; Hoon-Kyo KIM ; Yoon-Koo KANG ; Jae Yong CHO ; Hwan Jung YUN ; Byung-Ho NAM ; Dae Young ZANG
Cancer Research and Treatment 2025;57(1):39-46
Purpose:
The Korean Cancer Study Group (KCSG) is a nationwide cancer clinical trial group dedicated to advancing investigator-initiated trials (IITs) by conducting and supporting clinical trials. This study aims to review IITs conducted by KCSG and quantitatively evaluate the survival and financial benefits of IITs for patients.
Materials and Methods:
We reviewed IITs conducted by KCSG from 1998 to 2023, analyzing progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) gains for participants. PFS and OS benefits were calculated as the difference in median survival times between the intervention and control groups, multiplied by the number of patients in the intervention group. Financial benefits were assessed based on the cost of investigational products provided.
Results:
From 1998 to 2023, KCSG conducted 310 IITs, with 133 completed and published. Of these, 21 were included in the survival analysis. The analysis revealed that 1,951 patients in the intervention groups gained a total of 2,558.4 months (213.2 years) of PFS and 2,501.6 months (208.5 years) of OS, with median gains of 1.31 months in PFS and 1.58 months in OS per patient. When analyzing only statistically significant results, PFS and OS gain per patients was 1.69 months and 3.02 months, respectively. Investigational drug cost analysis from six available IITs indicated that investigational products provided to 252 patients were valued at 10,400,077,294 won (approximately 8,046,481 US dollars), averaging about 41,270,148 won (approximately 31,930 US dollars) per patient.
Conclusion
Our findings, based on analysis of published research, suggest that IITs conducted by KCSG led to survival benefits for participants and, in some studies, may have provided financial benefits by providing investment drugs.
8.Machine Learning Prediction of Attachment Type From Bio-Psychological Factors in Patients With Depression
Yoon Jae CHO ; Jin Sun RYU ; Jeong-Ho SEOK ; Eunjoo KIM ; Jooyoung OH ; Byung-Hoon KIM
Psychiatry Investigation 2025;22(4):412-423
Objective:
Adult attachment style is linked to how an individual responds to threats or stress and is known to be related to the onset of psychiatric symptoms such as depression. However, as the current assessment of attachment type mainly relies on self-report questionnaires and can be prone to bias, there is a need to incorporate physiological factors along with psychological symptoms and history in this process. We aimed to predict the measurement of two important types of adult attachment with heart rate variability (HRV), early life stress experience, and subjective psychiatric symptoms.
Methods:
Five hundred eighty-two subjects with depressive disorder were recruited retrospectively from January 2015 to June 2021. The experience of early life stress and psychiatric symptoms were collected, and HRV measures were obtained as input for an ensembled Voting Regressor model of machine learning-based regression models, including linear regression, ElasticNet, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest, and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost).
Results:
Model performances evaluated with R-squared score averaged across 30 seeds were 0.377 and 0.188 for anxious- and avoidant-attachment, respectively. Mean absolute error averaged to 13.251 and 12.083, respectively. Shapley value importance analysis indicated that for both attachment types, the most important feature was the trait-anxiety, followed by emotional abuse, state-anxiety or self-reported depressive symptoms, and fear or helplessness felt in the moment of an early life stressor.
Conclusion
Our results provide the evidence base that may be utilized in clinical settings to predict the degree of attachment type using bio-psychological factors.
9.Atypical features of hepatic veno‑occlusive disease/sinusoidal obstruction syndrome after inotuzumab ozogamicin in adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Kyung‑Hun SUNG ; Daehun KWAG ; Gi June MIN ; Sung‑Soo PARK ; Silvia PARK ; Sung‑Eun LEE ; Byung‑Sik CHO ; Ki‑Seong EOM ; Yoo‑Jin KIM ; Hee‑Je KIM ; Chang‑Ki MIN ; Seok‑Goo CHO ; Seok LEE ; Jae‑Ho YOON
Blood Research 2025;60():28-
Purpose:
Inotuzumab ozogamicin (INO) has demonstrated a safe bridging role to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (R/R B-ALL). How‑ ever, hepatic veno-occlusive disease/sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (VOD/SOS) is frequently observed. This study aimed to identify significant features of INO-associated VOD/SOS.
Methods:
We reviewed seven cases of hepatic VOD/SOS that developed either during INO salvage or after alloge‑ neic HSCT following INO-induced complete remission (CR). Diagnosis and severity grading of VOD/SOS were based on the revised criteria from the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Defibrotide was used to treat severe to very severe cases.
Results:
Four patients developed VOD/SOS during INO salvage therapy (at 21 and 36 days post-INO1, 77 days postINO3, and 21 days post-INO5), while three were diagnosed at 2, 5, and 10 days post-HSCT following INO-induced CR.Doppler ultrasonography revealed preserved portal vein flow (range 10.2–26.0 cm/sec) and normal hepatic artery resistive index (RI, range 0.56–0.74) in all but one patient (RI 0.83). Despite this, all patients presented with massive ascites and progressively elevated total bilirubin levels. All cases were classified as severe to very severe; six were treated with defibrotide and one underwent liver transplantation. Most patients ultimately died owing to VOD/SOS progression.
Conclusion
Post-INO VOD/SOS manifested as two different clinical settings and was characterized by preserved portal vein flow, which complicated diagnosis. Despite timely defibrotide administration, clinical outcomes were poor.These findings emphasize the need for vigilance and potential consideration of prophylactic strategies for prevention of INO-associated VOD/SOS.
10.The Survival and Financial Benefit of Investigator-Initiated Trials Conducted by Korean Cancer Study Group
Bum Jun KIM ; Chi Hoon MAENG ; Bhumsuk KEAM ; Young-Hyuck IM ; Jungsil RO ; Kyung Hae JUNG ; Seock-Ah IM ; Tae Won KIM ; Jae Lyun LEE ; Dae Seog HEO ; Sang-We KIM ; Keunchil PARK ; Myung-Ju AHN ; Byoung Chul CHO ; Hoon-Kyo KIM ; Yoon-Koo KANG ; Jae Yong CHO ; Hwan Jung YUN ; Byung-Ho NAM ; Dae Young ZANG
Cancer Research and Treatment 2025;57(1):39-46
Purpose:
The Korean Cancer Study Group (KCSG) is a nationwide cancer clinical trial group dedicated to advancing investigator-initiated trials (IITs) by conducting and supporting clinical trials. This study aims to review IITs conducted by KCSG and quantitatively evaluate the survival and financial benefits of IITs for patients.
Materials and Methods:
We reviewed IITs conducted by KCSG from 1998 to 2023, analyzing progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) gains for participants. PFS and OS benefits were calculated as the difference in median survival times between the intervention and control groups, multiplied by the number of patients in the intervention group. Financial benefits were assessed based on the cost of investigational products provided.
Results:
From 1998 to 2023, KCSG conducted 310 IITs, with 133 completed and published. Of these, 21 were included in the survival analysis. The analysis revealed that 1,951 patients in the intervention groups gained a total of 2,558.4 months (213.2 years) of PFS and 2,501.6 months (208.5 years) of OS, with median gains of 1.31 months in PFS and 1.58 months in OS per patient. When analyzing only statistically significant results, PFS and OS gain per patients was 1.69 months and 3.02 months, respectively. Investigational drug cost analysis from six available IITs indicated that investigational products provided to 252 patients were valued at 10,400,077,294 won (approximately 8,046,481 US dollars), averaging about 41,270,148 won (approximately 31,930 US dollars) per patient.
Conclusion
Our findings, based on analysis of published research, suggest that IITs conducted by KCSG led to survival benefits for participants and, in some studies, may have provided financial benefits by providing investment drugs.

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