An Inductive Learning Approach to Prognostic Prediction

This paper introduces the Recurrence Surface Approximation, an inductive learning method based on linear programming that predicts recurrence times using censored training examples, that is, examples in which the available training output may be only a lower bound on the \right answer." This approach is augmented with a feature selection method that chooses an appropriate feature set within the context of the linear programming generalizer. Computational results in the eld of breast cancer prognosis are shown. A straightforward translation of the prediction method to an artiicial neural network model is also proposed.