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 Survival neural networks for time-to-event prediction in longitudinal study
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              303311

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          J. F. Zhang;
                        et al
Date Published

2020
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              This article proposes two real-time survival networks: a time-dependent survival neural network (TSNN) with a feed-forward architecture and a recurrent survival neural network (RSNN) incorporating long short-term memory units.
Abstract
              Time-to-event prediction has been an important practical task for longitudinal studies in many fields, such as manufacturing, medicine, and healthcare. Although most of the conventional survival analysis approaches suffer from the presence of censored failures and statistically circumscribed assumptions, few attempts have been made to develop survival learning machines that explore the underlying relationship between repeated measures of covariates and failure-free survival probability. This requires a purely dynamic-data-driven prediction approach, free of survival models or statistical assumptions. The TSNN proposed in this article additively estimates a latent failure risk arising from the repeated measures and performs multiple binary classifications to generate prognostics of survival probability, while the RSNN with time-dependent input covariates implicitly estimates the relation between these covariates and the survival probability. The novel survival learning criterion is proposed in this article to train the neural networks by minimizing the censoring Kullback–Leibler divergence, which guarantees monotonicity of the resulting probability. Besides the failure-event AUC, C-index, and censoring Brier score, the authors redefine a survival time estimate to evaluate the performance of the competing models. Experiments on four datasets demonstrate the great promise of this approach in real applications. (publisher abstract modified)
      
  
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