Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30535-1, published online 13 August 2018

This Article contains an error in the Discussion section.

“The low-risk and intermediate-risk groups defined by the model’s predictions were more significantly separated compared to the sfirst study where deep learning-based predictions are used for survival analysis in a prostate cancer cohort.”

should read:

“The low-risk and intermediate-risk groups defined by the model’s predictions were more significantly separated compared to the corresponding groups defined by either pathologist’s annotations. To our knowledge, this is the first study where deep learning-based predictions are used for survival analysis in a prostate cancer cohort.”