External Validation of the Bone Metastases Ensemble Trees for Survival (BMETS) Machine Learning Model to Predict Survival in Patients With Symptomatic Bone Metastases.
Christen R ElledgeAnna W LaVigneJacob FikselJean L WrightTodd McNuttLawrence R KleinbergChen HuThomas J SmithScott L ZegerTheodore L DeWeeseSara R AlcornPublished in: JCO clinical cancer informatics (2021)
BMETS maintained high discriminative ability when applied to an external validation set and when refit with new data, supporting its generalizability, stability, and the feasibility of dynamic modeling.