@inproceedings{c6884553600f4efa8b932fccda622f56,
title = "Survival analysis via transduction for semi-supervised neural networks in medical prognosis",
abstract = "The central challenge in predictive modeling for survival analysis in medical prognostics is managing censored observations. Traditional regression techniques are challenged by these censored samples. In such problems the true target times of a majority of instances are unknown; what is known is a censored target representing some earlier indeterminate time. Such censored samples can be considered as semi-supervised targets; however most efforts in semi-supervised regression do not take into account the partial nature of unsupervised information; samples are treated as either fully labelled or unlabeled. In this work we extend a novel transduction approach for semi-supervised survival analysis to neural networks. The true target times are approximated from the censored times through transduction. For prostate and breast cancer applications, this semi-supervised regression framework yields a significant improvement in performance.",
keywords = "cancer prognosis, neural networks, regression, semi-supervised, survival analysis, transduction",
author = "Khan, {Faisal M.} and Kulikowski, {Casimir A.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2015 ; Conference date: 09-11-2015 Through 12-11-2015",
year = "2015",
month = dec,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1109/BIBM.2015.7359722",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2015",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "433--437",
editor = "Schapranow, {lng. Matthieu} and Jiayu Zhou and Hu, {Xiaohua Tony} and Bin Ma and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Satoru Miyano and Illhoi Yoo and Brian Pierce and Amarda Shehu and Gombar, {Vijay K.} and Brian Chen and Vinay Pai and Jun Huan",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2015",
address = "United States",
}