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  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Data Science

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  • Cancer registries collect vital patient data but often suffer from missing variables.
  • Incomplete data hinders accurate survival probability analyses.
  • Existing imputation methods are typically evaluated only on feature-wise errors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a novel approach for evaluating imputation methods in cancer survival analysis.
  • To assess the data distribution learned by imputation techniques.
  • To improve the quality of survival analyses using imputed data.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Kaplan-Meier (KM) curves to estimate survival probabilities.
  • Stratified data by Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) tumor stage.
  • Compared KM curves from known vs. imputed UICC stages using log-rank test, Manhattan distance, and maximum absolute distance.

Main Results:

  • The Miss Forest imputer demonstrated the best performance across all evaluation metrics for UICC stage II.
  • KM curve comparisons showed alignment between imputed and known data for UICC stage II.
  • The proposed evaluation metrics effectively assessed imputation quality for survival analysis.

Conclusions:

  • The developed metrics aid epidemiological researchers in selecting imputation methods that preserve survival probability trends.
  • Accurate imputation is crucial for reliable cancer survival analysis.
  • Miss Forest shows promise for imputing cancer registry data for survival studies.