ChronoSurv: A Clinical Pathway-Guided Graph Framework for Multimodal Survival Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19140v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:46:47 GMT
• Title: ChronoSurv: A Clinical Pathway-Guided Graph Framework for Multimodal Survival Analysis
• Abstract summary: ChronoSurv represents patient care as a progression-aware clinical trajectory using directed graphs aligned with key diagnostic steps.<n> Experimental results on two public datasets demonstrate that ChronoSurv achieves state-of-the-art discriminative performance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Accurate survival prediction is essential for personalized treatment planning in head and neck cancer, yet remains challenging due to the heterogeneous and high-dimensional nature of multimodal clinical data. While deep survival models have improved predictive performance over classical statistical approaches, existing methods typically rely on static fusion strategies or temporally agnostic modeling, limiting their ability to capture structured clinical workflows. In this work, we propose ChronoSurv, a heterogeneous hierarchical directed graph framework for multimodal survival analysis. ChronoSurv represents patient care as a progression-aware clinical trajectory using directed graphs aligned with key diagnostic steps. A hierarchical topology incorporates fine-grained, coarse, and global representations, further supporting flexible adaptation to missing modalities, while heterogeneous message passing models complex and asymmetric relationships across modalities and clinical steps. Experimental results on two public datasets demonstrate that ChronoSurv achieves state-of-the-art discriminative performance while maintaining statistically reliable calibration. Comprehensive ablation studies further confirm the contribution of each architectural component, highlighting the potential of trajectory-aware graph modeling for multimodal survival prediction.

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