Variational Learning of Individual Survival Distributions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04430v2
• Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 05:01:25 GMT
• Title: Variational Learning of Individual Survival Distributions
• Authors: Zidi Xiu, Chenyang Tao, Benjamin A. Goldstein, Ricardo Henao
• Abstract summary: We introduce a variational time-to-event prediction model, named Variational Survival Inference (VSI), which builds upon recent advances in distribution learning techniques and deep neural networks. To validate effectiveness of our approach, an extensive set of experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets is carried out, showing improved performance relative to competing solutions.
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• Abstract: The abundance of modern health data provides many opportunities for the use of machine learning techniques to build better statistical models to improve clinical decision making. Predicting time-to-event distributions, also known as survival analysis, plays a key role in many clinical applications. We introduce a variational time-to-event prediction model, named Variational Survival Inference (VSI), which builds upon recent advances in distribution learning techniques and deep neural networks. VSI addresses the challenges of non-parametric distribution estimation by ($i$) relaxing the restrictive modeling assumptions made in classical models, and ($ii$) efficiently handling the censored observations, {\it i.e.}, events that occur outside the observation window, all within the variational framework. To validate the effectiveness of our approach, an extensive set of experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets is carried out, showing improved performance relative to competing solutions.

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