DeepSurv swMATH ID: 41011 Software Authors: Katzman, JL; Shaham, U.; Cloninger, A.; Bates, J.; Jiang, T.; Kluger, Y Description: DeepSurv: personalized treatment recommender system using a Cox proportional hazards deep neural network. Methods: We introduce DeepSurv, a Cox proportional hazards deep neural network and state-of-the-art survival method for modeling interactions between a patient’s covariates and treatment effectiveness in order to provide personalized treatment recommendations. Results: We perform a number of experiments training DeepSurv on simulated and real survival data. We demonstrate that DeepSurv performs as well as or better than other state-of-the-art survival models and validate that DeepSurv successfully models increasingly complex relationships between a patient’s covariates and their risk of failure. We then show how DeepSurv models the relationship between a patient’s features and effectiveness of different treatment options to show how DeepSurv can be used to provide individual treatment recommendations. Finally, we train DeepSurv on real clinical studies to demonstrate how it’s personalized treatment recommendations would increase the survival time of a set of patients. Conclusions: The predictive and modeling capabilities of DeepSurv will enable medical researchers to use deep neural networks as a tool in their exploration, understanding, and prediction of the effects of a patient’s characteristics on their risk of failure. Homepage: https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-018-0482-1 Source Code: https://github.com/jaredleekatzman/DeepSurv Related Software: Adam; pycox; survival; GitHub; PyTorch; SVRc; shap; ElemStatLearn; AlexNet; lifelines; ImageNet; Smcure; gss; dynpred; Cox-nnet; Albatross Analytics; crrSC; dhglm; frailtyHL; cmprsk Cited in: 10 Publications all top 5 Cited by 21 Authors 2 Borgan, Ørnulf 2 Kovalev, Maxim S. 2 Kvamme, Håvard 2 Utkin, Lev V. 1 Coolen, Frank P. A. 1 Cournède, Paul-Henry 1 Ha, Il Do 1 Jeong, Jong-Hyeon 1 Jia, Yichen 1 Konstantinov, Andrei 1 Lee, Youngjo 1 Lemler, Sarah 1 Müller, Jonas 1 Sautreuil, Mathilde 1 Scheel, Ida 1 Tong, Jianyang 1 Wang, Jane-Ling 1 Xie, Yujing 1 Yu, Zhangsheng 1 Zhao, Xuejing 1 Zhong, Qixian all top 5 Cited in 9 Serials 1 The Annals of Statistics 1 Neural Networks 1 Computational Statistics 1 Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 1 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 1 Lifetime Data Analysis 1 Informatica (Vilnius) 1 Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) 1 Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science Cited in 5 Fields 10 Statistics (62-XX) 2 Computer science (68-XX) 1 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 1 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 1 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) Citations by Year