• DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-47426-3_53
• Corpus ID: 211252677

Estimation of Conditional Mixture Weibull Distribution with Right Censored Data Using Neural Network for Time-to-Event Analysis

@article{Bennis2020EstimationOC,
  title={Estimation of Conditional Mixture Weibull Distribution with Right Censored Data Using Neural Network for Time-to-Event Analysis},
  author={A.-C. Bennis and Sandrine Mouysset and Mathieu Serrurier},
  journal={Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining},
  year={2020},
  volume={12084},
  pages={687 - 698}
}

• A.-C. Bennis, S. Mouysset, M. Serrurier
• Published 21 February 2020
• Computer Science
• Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

In this paper, we consider survival analysis with right-censored data which is a common situation in predictive maintenance and health field. We propose a model based on the estimation of two-parameter Weibull distribution conditionally to the features. To achieve this result, we describe a neural network architecture and the associated loss functions that takes into account the right-censored data. We extend the approach to a finite mixture of two-parameter Weibull distributions. We first validate that our model is able to precisely estimate the right parameters of the conditional Weibull distribution on synthetic datasets. In numerical experiments on two real-word datasets (METABRIC and SEER), our model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. We also demonstrate that our approach can consider any survival time horizon.