Tempus Cancer Model Boosts Survival Prediction AUC with 1.67M Patient Dataset
neuroecology · x · 2026-08-27
Tempus introduced the oFM (Oncology Foundation Model), a multimodal foundation model trained on a real-world cohort of 1.67 million cancer patients. It fuses clinical trajectories with DNA, RNA, and H&E pathology images into a unified patient-state embedding.
Key Results:
- In prognostic benchmarks, the oFM improved the Area Under the Curve (AUC) for overall survival prediction from 0.563 to 0.774, significantly outperforming expert-curated clinical and molecular feature baselines.
- Across 11 comparative-treatment cohorts, oFM embeddings improved treatment-benefit ranking in 9 cohorts, achieving a three-fold higher pooled and scale-normalized treatment-benefit AUTOC than baseline features.
Technical Details:
- The model encodes daily clinical and molecular episodes and integrates them over time alongside pathology images.
- The study utilized over one million patients for training with strict patient-level partitioning for validation and testing.
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