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Fulfilling the promise of precision medicine requires accurately and precisely classifying disease states. For cancer, this includes prediction of survival time from a surfeit of covariates. Such data presents an opportunity for improved…

Applications · Statistics 2017-06-22 Shannon R. McCurdy , Annette Molinaro , Lior Pachter

Background Predicting overall survival (OS) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is essential for clinical decision-making and drug development. While tumor and blood test markers kinetics are intrinsically linked, their joint dynamics and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-19 Ruben Taieb , René Bruno , Pascal Chanu , Jin Yan Jin , Sébastien Benzekry

Accurate prognosis for an individual patient is a key component of precision oncology. Recent advances in machine learning have enabled the development of models using a wider range of data, including imaging. Radiomics aims to extract…

Tumor shape plays a critical role in influencing both growth and metastasis. We introduce a novel topological radiomic feature derived from persistent homology to characterize tumor shape, focusing on its association with time-to-event…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-08 Yuhyeong Jang , Tu Dan , Eric Vu , Chul Moon

Complex data features, such as unmodelled censored event times and variables with time-dependent effects, are common in cancer recurrence studies and pose challenges for Bayesian survival modelling. Current methodologies for predictive…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-12 Saku Suorsa , Aki Vehtari

We present a neural network framework for learning a survival model to predict a time-to-event outcome while simultaneously learning a topic model that reveals feature relationships. In particular, we model each subject as a distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 George H. Chen , Linhong Li , Ren Zuo , Amanda Coston , Jeremy C. Weiss

This work presents an omics-driven modeling pipeline that integrates machine-learning tools to facilitate the dynamic modeling of multiscale biological systems. Random forests and permutation feature importance are proposed to mine omics…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-17 Sebastián Espinel-Ríos , José Montaño López , José L. Avalos

Surgery planning in patients diagnosed with brain tumor is dependent on their survival prognosis. A poor prognosis might demand for a more aggressive treatment and therapy plan, while a favorable prognosis might enable a less risky surgery…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Sobia Yousaf , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Harish RaviPrakash , Ulas Bagci

Prediction of patient survival using high-dimensional multi-omics data requires systematic feature selection methods that ensure predictive performance, sparsity, and reliability for prognostic biomarker discovery. We developed a hybrid…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-15 John Zobolas , Anne-Marie George , Alberto López , Sebastian Fischer , Marc Becker , Tero Aittokallio

Multi-omics data present significant challenges for statistical inference due to the complex interdependencies among biological layers. In this paper, we introduce a novel Multi-Omics Factor-Adjusted Cox (MOFA-Cox) model for analyzing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-07 Heyuan Zhang , Meiling Hao , Lianqiang Qu , Liuquan Sun

In recent years, the growing availability of biomedical datasets featuring numerous longitudinal covariates has motivated the development of several multi-step methods for the dynamic prediction of survival outcomes. These methods employ…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-14 Mirko Signorelli , Sophie Retif

Enrichment of predictive models with new biomolecular markers is an important task in high-dimensional omic applications. Increasingly, clinical studies include several sets of such omics markers available for each patient, measuring…

Survival prediction is a crucial task associated with cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. This paper presents a novel approach to survival prediction by harnessing comprehensive information from CT and PET scans, along with associated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Aiman Farooq , Deepak Mishra , Santanu Chaudhury

Motivation: The size of available omics datasets is steadily increasing with technological advancement in recent years. While this increase in sample size can be used to improve the performance of relevant prediction tasks in healthcare,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-04 Jonas C. Ditz , Bernhard Reuter , Nico Pfeifer

For predicting cancer survival outcomes, standard approaches in clinical research are often based on two main modalities: pathology images for observing cell morphology features, and genomic (e.g., bulk RNA-seq) for quantifying gene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hongxiao Wang , Yang Yang , Zhuo Zhao , Pengfei Gu , Nishchal Sapkota , Danny Z. Chen

The discovery of disease subtypes is an essential step for developing precision medicine, and disease subtyping via omics data has become a popular approach. While promising, subtypes obtained from existing approaches are not necessarily…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-01 Lingsong Meng , Dorina Avram , George Tseng , Zhiguang Huo

An important goal in cancer research is the survival prognosis of a patient based on a minimal panel of genomic and molecular markers such as genes or proteins. Purely data-driven models without any biological knowledge can produce…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-02 Tobias Østmo Hermansen , Manuela Zucknick , Zhi Zhao

Cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease with significant variability in molecular features and clinical outcomes, making diagnosis and treatment challenging. In recent years, high-throughput omic technologies have facilitated the discovery…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-19 Saiful Islam , Md. Nahid Hasan

Background: Accurate survival prediction in breast cancer is essential for patient stratification and personalized therapy. Integrating gene expression data with clinical factors may enhance prognostic performance and support precision…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-26 Robert Amevor , Emmanuel Kubuafor , Dennis Baidoo , Junaidu Salifu , Koshali Muthunama Gonnage , Onyedikachi Joshua Okeke

This work presents the first large-scale neutral benchmark experiment focused on single-event, right-censored, low-dimensional survival data. Benchmark experiments are essential in methodological research to scientifically compare new and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-24 Lukas Burk , John Zobolas , Bernd Bischl , Andreas Bender , Marvin N. Wright , Raphael Sonabend