Support Vector Hazards Machine: A Counting Process Framework for Learning Risk Scores for Censored Outcomes.

IF 4.3 3区 计算机科学 Q1 AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS Journal of Machine Learning Research Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Epub Date: 2016-08-01
Yuanjia Wang, Tianle Chen, Donglin Zeng
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Learning risk scores to predict dichotomous or continuous outcomes using machine learning approaches has been studied extensively. However, how to learn risk scores for time-to-event outcomes subject to right censoring has received little attention until recently. Existing approaches rely on inverse probability weighting or rank-based regression, which may be inefficient. In this paper, we develop a new support vector hazards machine (SVHM) approach to predict censored outcomes. Our method is based on predicting the counting process associated with the time-to-event outcomes among subjects at risk via a series of support vector machines. Introducing counting processes to represent time-to-event data leads to a connection between support vector machines in supervised learning and hazards regression in standard survival analysis. To account for different at risk populations at observed event times, a time-varying offset is used in estimating risk scores. The resulting optimization is a convex quadratic programming problem that can easily incorporate non-linearity using kernel trick. We demonstrate an interesting link from the profiled empirical risk function of SVHM to the Cox partial likelihood. We then formally show that SVHM is optimal in discriminating covariate-specific hazard function from population average hazard function, and establish the consistency and learning rate of the predicted risk using the estimated risk scores. Simulation studies show improved prediction accuracy of the event times using SVHM compared to existing machine learning methods and standard conventional approaches. Finally, we analyze two real world biomedical study data where we use clinical markers and neuroimaging biomarkers to predict age-at-onset of a disease, and demonstrate superiority of SVHM in distinguishing high risk versus low risk subjects.

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支持向量危险机:一个计算过程框架,用于学习审查结果的风险评分。
使用机器学习方法来预测二分或连续结果的学习风险评分已经被广泛研究。然而,直到最近,如何在严格审查的情况下学习时间到事件结果的风险评分才受到关注。现有的方法依赖于逆概率加权或基于秩的回归,这可能是低效的。在本文中,我们开发了一种新的支持向量危险机(SVHM)方法来预测审查结果。我们的方法基于通过一系列支持向量机预测风险受试者中与事件发生时间结果相关的计数过程。引入计数过程来表示事件数据的时间,导致了监督学习中的支持向量机和标准生存分析中的危险回归之间的联系。为了说明观察到的事件时间的不同风险人群,在估计风险评分时使用了时变偏移。由此产生的优化是一个凸二次规划问题,可以使用核技巧很容易地结合非线性。我们证明了SVHM的经验风险函数与Cox偏似然之间的有趣联系。然后,我们正式证明了SVHM在区分协变量特定风险函数和人群平均风险函数方面是最优的,并使用估计的风险得分建立了预测风险的一致性和学习率。仿真研究表明,与现有的机器学习方法和标准的传统方法相比,使用SVHM可以提高事件时间的预测精度。最后,我们分析了两个真实世界的生物医学研究数据,其中我们使用临床标志物和神经成像生物标志物来预测疾病发作时的年龄,并证明了SVHM在区分高风险和低风险受试者方面的优越性。
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Journal of Machine Learning Research
Journal of Machine Learning Research 工程技术-计算机:人工智能
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) provides an international forum for the electronic and paper publication of high-quality scholarly articles in all areas of machine learning. All published papers are freely available online. JMLR has a commitment to rigorous yet rapid reviewing. JMLR seeks previously unpublished papers on machine learning that contain: new principled algorithms with sound empirical validation, and with justification of theoretical, psychological, or biological nature; experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insight into the design and behavior of learning in intelligent systems; accounts of applications of existing techniques that shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of the methods; formalization of new learning tasks (e.g., in the context of new applications) and of methods for assessing performance on those tasks; development of new analytical frameworks that advance theoretical studies of practical learning methods; computational models of data from natural learning systems at the behavioral or neural level; or extremely well-written surveys of existing work.
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