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Several studies have been conducted to develop predictive models of mortality in patients with GC.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n We developed 3- and 5-year survival prediction models for young patients with GC based on machine learning\u2013based survival modeling approaches.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n Data from 813 young patients (\u226450 years) diagnosed with GC between 2013 and 2015 were retrieved from the Gastric Cancer Public Staging Database. Among these 813 patients, data from 569 (70%) and 244 (30%) were allocated to the model training and testing datasets, respectively. Random survival forest, gradient boosting survival analysis, extra survival tree, and the Cox proportional hazards model were applied to predict survival outcomes at the 3- and 5-year time horizons. Model performance was assessed and quantified using the concordance index (C-index) metric. For the machine learning prediction models, the mean C-index values and corresponding 95% CIs were estimated across 100 repeated training iterations.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n For the random survival forest model, the C-index for predicting 3-year mortality was 95.89% (95% CI 95.80%\u201095.97%), whereas the C-index for predicting 5-year mortality was 91.82% (95% CI 91.68%\u201091.96%). In the gradient boosting survival analysis model, the C-index for predicting 3-year mortality was 95.32% (95% CI 95.31%\u201095.33%), and the C-index for predicting 5-year mortality was 89.98% (95% CI 89.95%\u201090.01%). For the extra survival tree model, the C-index for predicting 3-year mortality was 95.53% (95% CI 95.46%\u201095.60%), whereas the C-index for predicting 5-year mortality was 94.60% (95% CI 94.50%\u201094.70%). In addition, the Cox proportional hazards model showed a C-index of 94.15% for predicting 3-year mortality and 82.26% for predicting 5-year mortality. Tumor stage and tumor size were the primary predictive variables used to train the models for mortality prediction at different time points. 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