Poster ID M54 On Ranking in Survival Analysis: Bounds on the Concordance Index Vikas C. Raykar, Harald Steck, Balaji Krishnapuram, Cary Dehing-Oberije, Philippe Lambin CAD & Knowledge Solutions (IKM CKS), Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., Malvern, USA Department of Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO), GROW-University Maastricht, Netherlands Medical statistics Machine learning Survival Analysis Ranking censored data concordance index Proportional Hazard model Maximize Cox's partial likelihood ranking constraints AUC / WMW statistic Log-sigmoid lower bound Ranking algorithms NIPS 2007 December 2007 vikas.raykar@siemens.com Computer Aided Diagnosis & Knowledge Solutions (IKM CKS)