Summary of Survcorn: Survival Analysis with Conditional Ordinal Ranking Neural Network, by Muhammad Ridzuan et al.
SurvCORN: Survival Analysis with Conditional Ordinal Ranking Neural Network
by Muhammad Ridzuan, Numan Saeed, Fadillah Adamsyah Maani, Karthik Nandakumar, Mohammad Yaqub
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes two novel methods for survival analysis in healthcare settings: SurvCORN, a conditional ordinal ranking network that predicts survival curves directly, and SurvMAE, a metric for evaluating model predictions. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of SurvCORN on two real-world cancer datasets, showing its ability to maintain accurate ordering between patient outcomes while improving individual time-to-event predictions. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Survival analysis is important in healthcare because it helps doctors predict when patients might experience certain events, like death or disease recurrence. But this type of analysis can be tricky because some data points don’t have complete information. This paper suggests two new ways to deal with these missing pieces: SurvCORN and SurvMAE. They test their methods on real-world cancer data and show that they work well. |
