Summary of Toward a Well-calibrated Discrimination Via Survival Outcome-aware Contrastive Learning, by Dongjoon Lee et al.
Toward a Well-Calibrated Discrimination via Survival Outcome-Aware Contrastive Learning
by Dongjoon Lee, Hyeryn Park, Changhee Lee
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel contrastive learning approach is proposed to improve survival analysis in medical research. The method uses weighted sampling within a contrastive learning framework to enhance discrimination without sacrificing calibration. This is achieved by assigning lower penalties to samples with similar survival outcomes, aligning with the assumption that patients with similar event times share similar clinical statuses. When combined with a negative log-likelihood loss, the approach significantly improves discrimination performance and achieves better calibration. Experimental results on multiple real-world clinical datasets show that the method outperforms state-of-the-art deep survival models in both discrimination and calibration. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to analyze how long people will live is presented. The goal is to make accurate predictions while also making sure they are correct. To do this, a special kind of learning is used that looks at patients with similar outcomes together. This helps the model understand what’s important for predicting survival times. The results show that this approach works better than other methods and can be applied to real-world medical data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Log likelihood
