Effective Survival Prediction and Evaluation for Cancer Patients
Mahtab Farrokh,
Shiang Qi,
Neeraj Kumar
et al.
Abstract:Background: As cancer is the leading global cause of death, an ongoing challenge is predicting an individual’s cancer progression accurately, to facilitate personalized treatment planning. In deploying individual survival prediction models, a pivotal question emerges: Are we striving to compare survival durations between patients (e.g., ‘Who survives longer between patients A and B?’) or are we endeavoring to estimate a specific patient’s survival time (e.g., ‘How long will patient A survive?’), among other sc… Show more
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