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The Cox proportional hazards model is a canonical method in survival analysis for prediction of the life expectancy of a patient given clinical or genetic covariates -- it is a linear model in its original form. In recent years, several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-23 Xuelin Yang , Louis Abraham , Sejin Kim , Petr Smirnov , Feng Ruan , Benjamin Haibe-Kains , Robert Tibshirani

Semi-parametric survival analysis methods like the Cox Proportional Hazards (CPH) regression (Cox, 1972) are a popular approach for survival analysis. These methods involve fitting of the log-proportional hazard as a function of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Chirag Nagpal , Rohan Sangave , Amit Chahar , Parth Shah , Artur Dubrawski , Bhiksha Raj

The Cox proportional hazards (CPH) model has been widely applied in survival analysis to estimate relative risks across different subjects given multiple covariates. Traditional CPH models rely on a linear combination of covariates weighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Jiaxiang Cheng , Guoqiang Hu

Survival analysis is widely deployed in a diverse set of fields, including healthcare, business, ecology, etc. The Cox Proportional Hazard (CoxPH) model is a semi-parametric model often encountered in the literature. Despite its popularity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Chengzhi Shi , Stratis Ioannidis

Survival analysis is a challenging variation of regression modeling because of the presence of censoring, where the outcome measurement is only partially known, due to, for example, loss to follow up. Such problems come up frequently in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Chirag Nagpal , Steve Yadlowsky , Negar Rostamzadeh , Katherine Heller

Survival analysis often relies on Cox models, assuming both linearity and proportional hazards (PH). This study evaluates machine and deep learning methods that relax these constraints, comparing their performance with penalized Cox models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ivan Rossi , Flavio Sartori , Cesare Rollo , Giovanni Birolo , Piero Fariselli , Tiziana Sanavia

In this study, we address the challenge of survival analysis within heterogeneous patient populations, where traditional reliance on a single regression model such as the Cox proportional hazards (Cox PH) model often falls short.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-15 Ahmad Talafha

Survival analysis is a widely known method for predicting the likelihood of an event over time. The challenge of dealing with censored samples still remains. Traditional methods, such as the Cox Proportional Hazards (CPH) model, hinge on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Chanon Puttanawarut , Panu Looareesuwan , Romen Samuel Wabina , Prut Saowaprut

The Cox Proportional Hazards (CPH) model has long been the preferred survival model for its explainability. However, to increase its predictive power beyond its linear log-risk, it was extended to utilize deep neural networks, sacrificing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Abdallah Alabdallah , Omar Hamed , Mattias Ohlsson , Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson , Sepideh Pashami

The use of massive survival data has become common in survival analysis. In this study, a subsampling algorithm is proposed for the Cox proportional hazards model with time-dependent covariates when the sample is extraordinarily large but…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-07 Nan Qiao , Wangcheng Li , Feng Xiao , Cunjie Lin , Yong Zhou

The Cox model, which remains as the first choice in analyzing time-to-event data even for large datasets, relies on the proportional hazards (PH) assumption. When survival data arrive sequentially in chunks, a fast and minimally storage…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-24 Yishu Xue , HaiYing Wang , Jun Yan , Elizabeth D. Schifano

Survival prediction is an important branch of cancer prognosis analysis. The model that predicts survival risk through TCGA genomics data can discover genes related to cancer and provide diagnosis and treatment recommendations based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Wankang Zhai

In many biomedical applications, outcome is measured as a ``time-to-event'' (eg. disease progression or death). To assess the connection between features of a patient and this outcome, it is common to assume a proportional hazards model,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Aliasghar Tarkhan , Noah Simon

A new method called SurvLIME for explaining machine learning survival models is proposed. It can be viewed as an extension or modification of the well-known method LIME. The main idea behind the proposed method is to apply the Cox…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Maxim S. Kovalev , Lev V. Utkin , Ernest M. Kasimov

Although the Cox proportional hazards model is well established and extensively used in the analysis of survival data, the proportional hazards (PH) assumption may not always hold in practical scenarios. The class of semiparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-21 Junkai Yin , Yue Zhang , Zhangsheng Yu

Medical practitioners use survival models to explore and understand the relationships between patients' covariates (e.g. clinical and genetic features) and the effectiveness of various treatment options. Standard survival models like the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-09 Jared Katzman , Uri Shaham , Jonathan Bates , Alexander Cloninger , Tingting Jiang , Yuval Kluger

Cox proportional hazards model is one of the most popular models in biomedical data analysis. There have been continuing efforts to improve the flexibility of such models for complex signal detection, for example, via additive functions.…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-25 Boyi Guo , Nengjun Yi

Survival analysis aims to explore the relationship between covariates and the time until the occurrence of an event. The Cox proportional hazards model is commonly used for right-censored data, but it is not strictly limited to this type of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-02 Abdoulaye Dioni , Lynne Moore , Aida Eslami

Prognostic models in survival analysis are aimed at understanding the relationship between patients' covariates and the distribution of survival time. Traditionally, semi-parametric models, such as the Cox model, have been assumed. These…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-06 Denise Rava , Jelena Bradic

The Cox proportional hazards model is widely used in survival analysis to model time-to-event data. However, it faces significant computational challenges in the era of large-scale data, particularly when dealing with time-dependent…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-14 Miaomiao Su , Ruoyu Wang
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