survivalContour:通过彩色的轮图片可视化预测的生存率
Yushu Shi1, Liangliang Zhang2, Kim-Anh Do3
1Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, United States.
Bioinformatics advances
|August 1, 2024
概括
研究人员开发了一个新的彩色轮图,以可视化连续变量如何随着时间的推移影响生存预测. 该工具增强了各种模型的生存分析,包括机器学习方法.
科学领域:
- 生物统计学 生物统计学
- 数据可视化 数据可视化
- 机器学习 机器学习
背景情况:
- 生存分析模型提供灵活性,但缺乏可视化持续共变量对生存结果影响的工具.
- 现有的方法往往无法充分说明连续预测因素对时间到事件数据的影响.
- 需要直观的图形工具来解释复杂的生存模型.
研究的目的:
- 介绍一种新的彩色轮图,用于可视化随时间推移预测的生存概率.
- 用传统和先进的生存模型来证明这种可视化技术的实用性.
- 为拟议的可视化工具提供可访问的实现.
主要方法:
- 开发一个彩色的轮图表来表示生存概率.
- 将轮图应用于传统的生存模型 (Cox, Fine-Gray).
- 将轮图与机器学习模型 (随机生存森林,深度神经网络) 集成.
主要成果:
- 彩色的轮图有效地说明了连续共变量对生存结果的影响.
- 可视化方法与一系列生存分析技术兼容.
- 该工具为复杂的生存模型提供了增强的解释性,特别是那些使用机器学习的模型.
结论:
- 提出的彩色轮图是一个有价值的工具,可以提高生存分析的解释性.
- 这种可视化方法弥合了在生存预测中说明连续共变量效应的差距.
- 相关的R包和Shiny应用程序促进了这种新技术的实际应用.
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