Neural Networks for Survival Prediction in Medicine Using Prognostic Factors: A Review and Critical Appraisal

Figure 4

A schematic representation of the SNN by Han et al., adapted from [33], built for 242 patients with synovial sarcoma. Here ANN means artificial neural network, is the set of 9 clinical features, is the survival probability of the previous year sequentially updated ( input feature), is the predicted survival risk (alive/death probability), and the predicted survival probability for the following year .