Understanding survival models through counterfactual explanations

A Alabdallah, J Jakubowski, S Pashami… - International Conference …, 2024 - Springer
The development of black-box survival models has created a need for methods that explain
their outputs, just as in the case of traditional machine learning methods. Survival models …

CoxSE: Exploring the Potential of Self-Explaining Neural Networks with Cox Proportional Hazards Model for Survival Analysis

A Alabdallah, O Hamed, M Ohlsson… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The Cox Proportional Hazards (CPH) model has long been the preferred survival model for
its explainability. However, to increase its predictive power beyond its linear log-risk, it was …

Towards Trustworthy Survival Analysis with Machine Learning Models

A Alabdallah - 2025 - diva-portal.org
Survival Analysis is a major sub-field of statistics that studies the time to an event, like a
patient's death or a machine's failure. This makes survival analysis crucial in critical …

Machine Learning Survival Models: Performance and Explainability

A Alabdallah - 2023 - diva-portal.org
Abstract: Survival analysis is an essential statistics and machine learning field in various
critical applications like medical research and predictive maintenance. In these domains …