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ArticleGigaScience2022

SurvBenchmark: comprehensive benchmarking study of survival analysis methods using both omics data and clinical data.

Yunwei Zhang, Germaine Wong, Graham Mann, Samuel Muller, Jean Y H Yang

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Article in GigaScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yunwei ZhangSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2173-3185
Germaine WongSydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, NSW, Sydney 2006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8422-7269
Graham MannJohn Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1301-405X
Samuel MullerSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-3087-8127
Jean Y H YangSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5271-2603
The University of Sydney · AUAustralian National University · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Survival analysis is a branch of statistics that deals with both the tracking of time and the survival status simultaneously as the dependent response. Current comparisons of survival model performance mostly center on clinical data with classic statistical survival models, with prediction accuracy often serving as the sole metric of model performance. Moreover, survival analysis approaches for censored omics data have not been thoroughly investigated. The common approach is to binarize the survival time and perform a classification analysis. Here, we develop a benchmarking design, SurvBenchmark, that evaluates a diverse collection of survival models for both clinical and omics data sets. SurvBenchmark not only focuses on classical approaches such as the Cox model but also evaluates state-of-the-art machine learning survival models. All approaches were assessed using multiple performance metrics; these include model predictability, stability, flexibility, and computational issues. Our systematic comparison design with 320 comparisons (20 methods over 16 data sets) shows that the performances of survival models vary in practice over real-world data sets and over the choice of the evaluation metric. In particular, we highlight that using multiple performance metrics is critical in providing a balanced assessment of various models. The results in our study will provide practical guidelines for translational scientists and clinicians, as well as define possible areas of investigation in both survival technique and benchmarking strategies.

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BenchmarkingMachine LearningAlgorithmsProportional Hazards ModelsSurvival Analysismachine learningsurvival analysissurvival prediction

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PMID35906887
PMCPMC9338425
OpenAlexW4288770119

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