Structural identifiability of compartmental models: Recent progress and future directions

We summarize recent progress on the theory and applications of structural identifiability of compartmental models. On the applications side, we review identifiability analyses undertaken recently for models arising in epidemiology, oncology, and other areas; and we summarize common approaches for handling models that are unidentifiable. We also highlight recent theoretical and algorithmic results on how to reparametrize unidentifiable models and, in the context of linear compartmental models, how to predict identifiability properties directly from the model structure. Finally, we highlight future research directions.

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Current Opinion in Systems Biology
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2025-09-25
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coisb.2025.100559
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Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
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Structural identifiability of compartmental models: Recent progress and future directions

Anne Shiu, Nicolette Meshkat
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Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
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Structural identifiability of compartmental models: Recent progress and future directions

Anne Shiu, Nicolette Meshkat
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Abstract

We summarize recent progress on the theory and applications of structural identifiability of compartmental models. On the applications side, we review identifiability analyses undertaken recently for models arising in epidemiology, oncology, and other areas; and we summarize common approaches for handling models that are unidentifiable. We also highlight recent theoretical and algorithmic results on how to reparametrize unidentifiable models and, in the context of linear compartmental models, how to predict identifiability properties directly from the model structure. Finally, we highlight future research directions.

Current Opinion in Systems BiologyVol. 42
Santa Clara University (US), Mitchell Institute (US), Texas A&M University (US)
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Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
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