Time-to-event analysis is important in a wide range of applications from clinical prognosis to risk modeling for credit scoring and insurance. In risk modeling, it is sometimes required to make a simultaneous assessment of the hazard arising from two or more mutually exclusive factors. This paper applies to an existing neural network model for competing risks (PLANNCR), a Bayesian regularization with the standard approximation of the evidence to implement automatic relevance determination (PLANNCR-ARD). The theoretical framework for the model is described and its application is illustrated with reference to local and distal recurrence of breast cancer, using the data set of Veronesi et al (1995).
Partial logistic artificial neural network for competing risks regularized with automatic relevance determination / P.J.G. Lisboa, T.A. Etchells, I.H. Jarman, C.T.C. Arsene, M.S.H. Aung, A. Eleuteri, A.F.G. Taktak, F. Ambrogi, P. Boracchi, E. Biganzoli. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS. - ISSN 1045-9227. - 20:9(2009), pp. 1403-1416.
Partial logistic artificial neural network for competing risks regularized with automatic relevance determination
F. Ambrogi;P. BoracchiPenultimo
;E. BiganzoliUltimo
2009
Abstract
Time-to-event analysis is important in a wide range of applications from clinical prognosis to risk modeling for credit scoring and insurance. In risk modeling, it is sometimes required to make a simultaneous assessment of the hazard arising from two or more mutually exclusive factors. This paper applies to an existing neural network model for competing risks (PLANNCR), a Bayesian regularization with the standard approximation of the evidence to implement automatic relevance determination (PLANNCR-ARD). The theoretical framework for the model is described and its application is illustrated with reference to local and distal recurrence of breast cancer, using the data set of Veronesi et al (1995).Pubblicazioni consigliate
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