no code implementations • 15 Aug 2017 • Michael T. Lash, Yuqi Sun, Xun Zhou, Charles F. Lynch, W. Nick Street
Specifically, we compare model performance using a newly defined metric -- area between the curves (ABC) -- to assess (a) whether survival curves can be reasonably predicted for colorectal cancer patients in the state of Iowa, (b) whether geographical features improve predictive performance, and (c) whether a simple binary representation or richer, spectral clustering-based representation perform better.