{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/personalized-survival-prediction-with","title":"Personalized Survival Prediction with Contextual Explanation Networks","arxiv_id":"1801.09810","date":"2018-01-30","proceeding":null,"authors":["Maruan Al-Shedivat","Avinava Dubey","Eric P. Xing"],"abstract":"Accurate and transparent prediction of cancer survival times on the level of\nindividual patients can inform and improve patient care and treatment\npractices. In this paper, we design a model that concurrently learns to\naccurately predict patient-specific survival distributions and to explain its\npredictions in terms of patient attributes such as clinical tests or\nassessments. Our model is flexible and based on a recurrent network, can handle\nvarious modalities of data including temporal measurements, and yet constructs\nand uses simple explanations in the form of patient- and time-specific linear\nregression. For analysis, we use two publicly available datasets and show that\nour networks outperform a number of baselines in prediction while providing a\nway to inspect the reasons behind each prediction.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09810v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.09810v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"personalized-survival-prediction-with","repo_url":"https://github.com/alshedivat/cen","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"prediction","task_name":"Prediction"},{"task_slug":"survival-prediction","task_name":"Survival Prediction"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}