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Ensembles of genetically trained artificial neural networks for survival analysis

Kalderstam, Jonas LU ; Edén, Patrik LU and Ohlsson, Mattias LU orcid (2013) 21st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, ESANN 2013 p.333-338
Abstract

We have developed a prognostic index model for survival data based on an ensemble of artificial neural networks that optimizes directly on the concordance index. Approximations of the c-index are avoided with the use of a genetic algorithm, which does not require gradient information. The model is compared with Cox proportional hazards (COX) and three support vector machine (SVM) models by Van Belle et al. [10] on two clinical data sets, and only with COX on one artificial data set. Results indicate comparable performance to COX and SVM models on clinical data and superior performance compared to COX on non-linear data.

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ESANN 2013 proceedings, 21st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning
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6 pages
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21st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, ESANN 2013
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Bruges, Belgium
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2013-04-24 - 2013-04-26
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  • scopus:84887057609
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9782874190810
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English
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  author       = {{Kalderstam, Jonas and Edén, Patrik and Ohlsson, Mattias}},
  booktitle    = {{ESANN 2013 proceedings, 21st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning}},
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  pages        = {{333--338}},
  title        = {{Ensembles of genetically trained artificial neural networks for survival analysis}},
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