Cancer Survival Prediction

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Cancer survival prediction estimates outcomes such as overall survival, recurrence, and treatment response while accounting for censored follow-up, where the event time is unknown for some patients. Methods range from Cox models and random survival forests to deep learning on pathology slides, radiology, clinical records, and genomic or other molecular data; multimodal models use attention, graphs, prototypes, or mixture-of-experts to combine these sources. Much work evaluates risk ranking on TCGA cohorts and clinical benchmarks, while handling missing modalities, learning interpretable features, and testing generalization across institutions remain central challenges. Strong concordance does not ensure accurate survival probabilities, so calibration, external validation, fairness, and robustness to data shifts also matter for clinical use.

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  1. Benchmarking Pathology Foundation Models for Breast Cancer Survival Prediction

    Apr 27, 2026Fredrik K. Gustafsson, Constance Boissin, Johan Vallon-Christersson +2Cancer Survival PredictionSurvival Analysis

    Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden · Division of Oncology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden · Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK +1

  2. PathMoG: A Pathway-Centric Modular Graph Neural Network for Multi-Omics Survival Prediction

    Apr 27, 2026Di Wang, Chupei Tang, Junxiao Kong +3Survival AnalysisGraph Neural Networks

    1Cuiying Honors College, Lanzhou University, China · School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, China · School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, China and Shanghai Innovation Institute +1

  3. Graph Transformer-Based Pathway Embedding for Cancer Prognosis

    Apr 17, 2026Koushik Howlader, Md Tauhidul Islam, Wei LeCancer GenomicsCancer Survival Prediction

    Iowa State University, Iowa, USA · Stanford University, CA, USA

  4. Ranking XAI Methods for Head and Neck Cancer Outcome Prediction

    Apr 17, 2026Baoqiang Ma, Djennifer K. Madzia-Madzou, Rosa C. J. Kraaijveld +1Gradient-Based AttributionCancer Survival Prediction

    Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht

  5. AMO-ENE: Attention-based Multi-Omics Fusion Model for Outcome Prediction in Extra Nodal Extension and HPV-associated Oropharyngeal Cancer

    Apr 10, 2026Gautier Hénique, William Le, Gabriel Dayan +8Clinical Outcome PredictionCancer Survival Prediction

    MedICAL Laboratory, Polytechnique Montréeal, Montreal, Canada · Centre de recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM), Montréal, Canada · Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal Canada

  6. Time-driven Survival Analysis from FDG-PET/CT in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Apr 8, 2026Sambit Tarai, Ashish Chauhan, Elin Lundström +5Cancer Survival PredictionSurvival Analysis

    Radiology, Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SE-75185, Sweden · Molecular Imaging and Medical Physics, Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SE-75185, Sweden · Antaros Medical, Mölndal, SE-43153, Sweden

  7. MorphDistill: Distilling Unified Morphological Knowledge from Pathology Foundation Models for Colorectal Cancer Survival Prediction

    Apr 7, 2026Hikmat Khan, Usama Sajjad, Metin N. Gurcan +4Cancer Survival PredictionComputational Pathology

    Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA · Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA

  8. MO-RiskVAE: A Multi-Omics Variational Autoencoder for Survival Risk Modeling in Multiple MyelomaMO-RiskVAE

    Apr 7, 2026Zixuan Chen, Heng Zhang, YuPeng Qin +5Latent-Space RegularizationCancer Survival Prediction

    Binjiang Institute of Zhejiang University · Zhejiang University · School of Medicine, Zhejiang University

  9. PRIME: Prototype-Driven Multimodal Pretraining for Cancer Prognosis with Missing Modalities

    Apr 5, 2026Kai Yu, Shuang Zhou, Yiran Song +9Multimodal PretrainingMissing-Modality Learning

    Division of Computational Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. · North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. +2

  10. Good Rankings, Wrong Probabilities: A Calibration Audit of Multimodal Cancer Survival Models

    Apr 5, 2026Sajad GhawamiCancer Survival PredictionMultimodal Survival Analysis

    Independent Researcher

  11. Quantifying Cross-Modal Interactions in Multimodal Glioma Survival Prediction via InterSHAP: Evidence for Additive Signal Integration

    Mar 31, 2026Iain Swift, JingHua Ye, Ruairi O'ReillyMultimodal FusionMultimodal Survival Analysis

    Department of Computer Science, Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland

  12. Trimodal Deep Learning for Glioma Survival Prediction: A Feasibility Study Integrating Histopathology, Gene Expression, and MRI

    Mar 31, 2026Iain Swift, JingHua YeCancer Survival PredictionMultimodal Survival Analysis

    Department of Computer Science, Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland

  13. Genetic algorithms for multi-omic feature selection: a comparative study in cancer survival analysis

    Mar 31, 2026Luca Cattelani, Vittorio FortinoFeature SelectionGenetic Algorithms

    Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistonranta 8, 70210, Finland

  14. Pan-Cancer Mapping of the Tumor Immune Landscape through Metagene Clustering and Predictive Modeling

    Mar 28, 2026Soham ChatterjeeCancer Subtype ClassificationOncology

  15. MUST: Modality-Specific Representation-Aware Transformer for Diffusion-Enhanced Survival Prediction with Missing Modality

    Mar 27, 2026Kyungwon Kim, Dosik HwangMultimodal Survival AnalysisMissing-Modality Learning

    Yonsei University · Korea Institute of Science and Technology

  16. Multimodal Survival Analysis with Locally Deployable Large Language Models

    Mar 23, 2026Moritz Gögl, Christopher YauMultimodal Survival AnalysisCancer Survival Prediction

    University of Oxford

  17. Interpretable Multiple Myeloma Prognosis with Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Data

    Mar 20, 2026Salma Rachidi, Aso Bozorgpanah, Eric Fey +1Interpretable MLCancer Survival Prediction

    Aalto University, Dept. of Computer Science, Espoo, Finland · Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

  18. HistoAtlas: A Pan-Cancer Morphology Atlas Linking Histomics to Molecular Programs and Clinical Outcomes

    Mar 17, 2026Pierre-Antoine BannierComputational PathologyWhole-Slide Image Analysis

  19. HGP-Mamba: Integrating Histology and Generated Protein Features for Mamba-based Multimodal Survival Risk Prediction

    Mar 17, 2026Jing Dai, Chen Wu, Ming Wu +4Cancer Survival PredictionMultimodal Survival Analysis

    Cancer Hospital of Dalian University of Technology, Shenyang, China · School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China · Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuit and Biomedical Electronic System, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

  20. Deep Learning From Routine Histology Improves Risk Stratification for Biochemical Recurrence in Prostate Cancer

    Mar 15, 2026Clément Grisi, Khrystyna Faryna, Nefise Uysal +11Clinical Risk PredictionOncology

    Department of Pathology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands · Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy · Surgical Pathology Unit, Verona University Hospital Trust, Verona, Italy +4

  21. Advancing Cancer Prognosis with Hierarchical Fusion of Genomic, Proteomic and Pathology Imaging Data from a Systems Biology Perspective

    Mar 14, 2026Junjie Zhou, Bao Xue, Meiling Wang +2Cancer Survival PredictionMultimodal Survival Analysis

    The College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  22. Leveraging Large Language Models and Survival Analysis for Early Prediction of Chemotherapy Outcomes

    Mar 12, 2026Muhammad Faisal Shahid, Asad Afzal, Abdullah Faiz +5Clinical Outcome PredictionCancer Survival Prediction

    CureMD Research, 80 Pine St 21st Floor, New York, NY 10005, United States

  23. Sparse Task Vector Mixup with Hypernetworks for Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Whole-Slide Image Prognosis

    Mar 11, 2026Pei Liu, Xiangxiang Zeng, Tengfei Ma +3Whole-Slide Image AnalysisCancer Survival Prediction

    College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University · National University of Singapore

  24. An Automated Radiomics Framework for Postoperative Survival Prediction in Colorectal Liver Metastases using Preoperative MRI

    Mar 10, 2026Muhammad Alberb, Jianan Chen, Hossam El-rewaidy +5Cancer Survival PredictionRadiomics

    Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada · Physical Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada · UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, UK +5

  25. Bridging the gap between Performance and Interpretability: An Explainable Disentangled Multimodal Framework for Cancer Survival Prediction

    Mar 2, 2026Aniek Eijpe, Soufyan Lakbir, Melis Erdal Cesur +4Cancer Survival PredictionMultimodal Survival Analysis

    AI Technology for Life, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands · Department of Metabolic Diseases, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands · Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands +3

  26. Hierarchical Multi-Scale Graph Learning with Knowledge-Guided Attention for Whole-Slide Image Survival Analysis

    Feb 26, 2026Bin Xu, Yufei Zhou, Boling Song +6Hierarchical GNNsCancer Survival Prediction

    Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China · Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA +4

  27. Multimodal Survival Modeling and Fairness-Aware Clinical Machine Learning for 5-Year Breast Cancer Risk Prediction

    Feb 25, 2026Toktam KhatibiCancer Survival PredictionMultimodal Survival Analysis

    Faculty of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

  28. Counterfactual Understanding via Retrieval-aware Multimodal Modeling for Time-to-Event Survival Prediction

    Feb 23, 2026Ha-Anh Hoang Nguyen, Tri-Duc Phan Le, Duc-Hoang Pham +4Counterfactual PredictionCancer Survival Prediction

    University of Engineering and Technology, Hanoi Vietnam National University, Vietnam · Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

  29. A Contrastive Variational AutoEncoder for NSCLC Survival Prediction with Missing Modalities

    Feb 19, 2026Michele Zanitti, Vanja Miskovic, Francesco Trovò +5Cancer Survival PredictionMultimodal Survival Analysis

    Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark · Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy · Department of Medical Oncology, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

  30. Together, Then Apart: Balancing Alignment and Distinctiveness for Multimodal Survival Analysis

    Nov 22, 2025Wenjing Liu, Qin Ren, Wen Zhang +2Cancer Survival PredictionSurvival Analysis

    Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA · Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA