DeepSurv: personalized treatment recommender system using a Cox proportional hazards deep neural network
Abstract Background 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 linear Cox proportional hazards model requ...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-02-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-018-0482-1 |