In this notebook, we will present a simple example of the neural network version of the MTLR
method described in
this and this paper.
For a more verbose introduction to pycox
see this notebook.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# For preprocessing
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn_pandas import DataFrameMapper
import torch # For building the networks
import torchtuples as tt # Some useful functions
from pycox.datasets import metabric
from pycox.models import MTLR
from pycox.evaluation import EvalSurv
## Uncomment to install `sklearn-pandas`
# ! pip install sklearn-pandas
np.random.seed(1234)
_ = torch.manual_seed(123)
We load the METABRIC data set as a pandas DataFrame and split the data in in train, test and validation.
The duration
column gives the observed times and the event
column contains indicators of whether the observation is an event (1) or a censored observation (0).
df_train = metabric.read_df()
df_test = df_train.sample(frac=0.2)
df_train = df_train.drop(df_test.index)
df_val = df_train.sample(frac=0.2)
df_train = df_train.drop(df_val.index)
df_train.head()
x0 | x1 | x2 | x3 | x4 | x5 | x6 | x7 | x8 | duration | event | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 5.603834 | 7.811392 | 10.797988 | 5.967607 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 56.840000 | 99.333336 | 0 |
1 | 5.284882 | 9.581043 | 10.204620 | 5.664970 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 85.940002 | 95.733330 | 1 |
3 | 6.654017 | 5.341846 | 8.646379 | 5.655888 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 66.910004 | 239.300003 | 0 |
4 | 5.456747 | 5.339741 | 10.555724 | 6.008429 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 67.849998 | 56.933334 | 1 |
5 | 5.425826 | 6.331182 | 10.455145 | 5.749053 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 70.519997 | 123.533333 | 0 |
The METABRIC dataset has 9 covariates: x0, ..., x8
.
We will standardize the 5 numerical covariates, and leave the binary covariates as is.
Note that PyTorch require variables of type 'float32'
.
We like using the sklearn_pandas.DataFrameMapper
to make feature mappers.
cols_standardize = ['x0', 'x1', 'x2', 'x3', 'x8']
cols_leave = ['x4', 'x5', 'x6', 'x7']
standardize = [([col], StandardScaler()) for col in cols_standardize]
leave = [(col, None) for col in cols_leave]
x_mapper = DataFrameMapper(standardize + leave)
x_train = x_mapper.fit_transform(df_train).astype('float32')
x_val = x_mapper.transform(df_val).astype('float32')
x_test = x_mapper.transform(df_test).astype('float32')
The survival methods require individual label transforms, so we have included a proposed label_transform
for each method.
In this case label_transform
is just a shorthand for the class pycox.preprocessing.label_transforms.LabTransDiscreteTime
.
The MTLR
is a discrete-time method, meaning it requires discretization of the event times to be applied to continuous-time data.
We let num_durations
define the size of this (equidistant) discretization grid, meaning our network will have num_durations
output nodes.
num_durations = 10
labtrans = MTLR.label_transform(num_durations)
get_target = lambda df: (df['duration'].values, df['event'].values)
y_train = labtrans.fit_transform(*get_target(df_train))
y_val = labtrans.transform(*get_target(df_val))
train = (x_train, y_train)
val = (x_val, y_val)
# We don't need to transform the test labels
durations_test, events_test = get_target(df_test)
type(labtrans)
pycox.preprocessing.label_transforms.LabTransDiscreteTime
We make a neural net with torch
.
For simple network structures, we can use the MLPVanilla
provided by torchtuples
.
For building more advanced network architectures, see for example the tutorials by PyTroch.
The following net is an MLP with two hidden layers (with 32 nodes each), ReLU activations, and num_nodes
output nodes.
We also have batch normalization and dropout between the layers.
in_features = x_train.shape[1]
num_nodes = [32, 32]
out_features = labtrans.out_features
batch_norm = True
dropout = 0.1
net = tt.practical.MLPVanilla(in_features, num_nodes, out_features, batch_norm, dropout)
If you instead want to build this network with torch
you can uncomment the following code.
It is essentially equivalent to the MLPVanilla
, but without the torch.nn.init.kaiming_normal_
weight initialization.
# net = torch.nn.Sequential(
# torch.nn.Linear(in_features, 32),
# torch.nn.ReLU(),
# torch.nn.BatchNorm1d(32),
# torch.nn.Dropout(0.1),
# torch.nn.Linear(32, 32),
# torch.nn.ReLU(),
# torch.nn.BatchNorm1d(32),
# torch.nn.Dropout(0.1),
# torch.nn.Linear(32, out_features)
# )
To train the model we need to define an optimizer. You can choose any torch.optim
optimizer, but here we instead use one from tt.optim
as it has some added functionality.
We use the Adam
optimizer, but instead of choosing a learning rate, we will use the scheme proposed by Smith 2017 to find a suitable learning rate with model.lr_finder
. See this post for an explanation.
We also set duration_index
which connects the output nodes of the network the the discretization times. This is only useful for prediction and does not affect the training procedure.
model = MTLR(net, tt.optim.Adam, duration_index=labtrans.cuts)
batch_size = 256
lr_finder = model.lr_finder(x_train, y_train, batch_size, tolerance=6)
_ = lr_finder.plot()
lr_finder.get_best_lr()
0.0613590727341321
Often, this learning rate is a little high, so we instead set it manually to 0.01
model.optimizer.set_lr(0.01)
We include the EarlyStopping
callback to stop training when the validation loss stops improving. After training, this callback will also load the best performing model in terms of validation loss.
epochs = 100
callbacks = [tt.callbacks.EarlyStopping()]
log = model.fit(x_train, y_train, batch_size, epochs, callbacks, val_data=val)
0: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.7319, val_loss: 1.4576 1: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.5639, val_loss: 1.4277 2: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.5177, val_loss: 1.4187 3: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.4696, val_loss: 1.4052 4: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.4436, val_loss: 1.3784 5: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.4135, val_loss: 1.3748 6: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3904, val_loss: 1.3758 7: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3808, val_loss: 1.3634 8: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3674, val_loss: 1.3626 9: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3438, val_loss: 1.3766 10: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3339, val_loss: 1.3773 11: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3352, val_loss: 1.3672 12: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3296, val_loss: 1.3674 13: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3137, val_loss: 1.3677 14: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3214, val_loss: 1.3727 15: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3094, val_loss: 1.3679 16: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3053, val_loss: 1.3698 17: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.3078, val_loss: 1.3727 18: [0s / 0s], train_loss: 1.2979, val_loss: 1.3648
_ = log.plot()
For evaluation we first need to obtain survival estimates for the test set.
This can be done with model.predict_surv
which returns an array of survival estimates, or with model.predict_surv_df
which returns the survival estimates as a dataframe.
surv = model.predict_surv_df(x_test)
We can plot the survival estimates for the first 5 individuals.
Note that the time scale is correct because we have set model.duration_index
to be the grid points.
We have, however, only defined the survival estimates at the 10 times in our discretization grid, so, the survival estimates is a step function
surv.iloc[:, :5].plot(drawstyle='steps-post')
plt.ylabel('S(t | x)')
_ = plt.xlabel('Time')
It is, therefore, often beneficial to interpolate the survival estimates, see this paper for a discussion.
Linear interpolation (constant density interpolation) can be performed with the interpolate
method. We also need to choose how many points we want to replace each grid point with. Her we will use 10.
surv = model.interpolate(10).predict_surv_df(x_test)
surv.iloc[:, :5].plot(drawstyle='steps-post')
plt.ylabel('S(t | x)')
_ = plt.xlabel('Time')
The EvalSurv
class contains some useful evaluation criteria for time-to-event prediction.
We set censor_surv = 'km'
to state that we want to use Kaplan-Meier for estimating the censoring distribution.
ev = EvalSurv(surv, durations_test, events_test, censor_surv='km')
We start with the event-time concordance by Antolini et al. 2005.
ev.concordance_td('antolini')
0.6572131078044852
We can plot the the IPCW Brier score for a given set of times. Here we just use 100 time-points between the min and max duration in the test set. Note that the score becomes unstable for the highest times. It is therefore common to disregard the rightmost part of the graph.
time_grid = np.linspace(durations_test.min(), durations_test.max(), 100)
ev.brier_score(time_grid).plot()
plt.ylabel('Brier score')
_ = plt.xlabel('Time')
In a similar manner, we can plot the the IPCW negative binomial log-likelihood.
ev.nbll(time_grid).plot()
plt.ylabel('NBLL')
_ = plt.xlabel('Time')
The two time-dependent scores above can be integrated over time to produce a single score Graf et al. 1999. In practice this is done by numerical integration over a defined time_grid
.
ev.integrated_brier_score(time_grid)
0.16715497913570207
ev.integrated_nbll(time_grid)
0.4933129163806694