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. 2023 Jul 7;19(7):e1011211. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011211

Table 1. Comparison of STL, pan-cancer MTL, and pan-disease MTL by ROC AUC and PR AUC for 17 cancer types with >0.5% prevalence.

Diseases Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) AUC# Precision-recall (PR) AUC#
STL
ROC
AUC
Pan-cancer MTL Pan-disease MTL STL
PR
AUC
Pan-cancer MTL Pan-disease MTL Prevalence
(Baseline)
ROC Relative increase* ROC Relative increase* PR Relative increase* PR Relative increase*
AUC AUC AUC AUC
Malignant melanoma 52.80% 59.20% +234% 58.10% +194% 1.33% 1.70% +790% 1.61% +593% 1.28%
Non-melanoma skin cancer 61.50% 62.40% +8% 62.90% +12% 9.76% 10.03% +8% 10.21% +14% 6.65%
Skin cancer 61.00% 61.80% +7% 61.90% +8% 10.40% 10.73% +11% 10.86% +15% 7.32%
Lung cancer 59.10% 60.30% +14% 60.50% +16% 1.39% 1.44% +11% 1.51% +23% 0.90%
Intrathoracic cancer 59.10% 60.70% +18% 61.00% +21% 1.54% 1.58% +7% 1.65% +20% 1.01%
Colorectal cancer 54.40% 56.40% +46% 57.10% +60% 2.00% 2.21% +71% 2.29% +100% 1.72%
Colon cancer 53.90% 55.70% +47% 56.10% +59% 1.38% 1.49% +51% 1.49% +53% 1.17%
Rectal cancer 54.70% 57.90% +69% 59.30% +100% 0.77% 0.88% +98% 0.89% +116% 0.67%
Bladder cancer 64.50% 67.90% +24% 68.40% +27% 0.80% 0.87% +24% 0.92% +42% 0.51%
Uterine cancer 51.20% 53.20% +177% 51.80% +50% 1.08% 1.18% +224% 1.10% +49% 1.04%
Cervical cancer 55.20% 55.40% +4% 56.50% +24% 1.80% 1.88% +35% 1.97% +76% 1.58%
Prostate cancer 60.00% 59.70% -3% 59.60% -4% 8.33% 8.53% +9% 8.37% +2% 6.06%
Breast cancer 57.00% 58.30% +19% 58.10% +16% 9.38% 9.67% +13% 9.79% +20% 7.25%
Female genital tract cancer 54.00% 54.30% +7% 54.50% +11% 3.15% 3.27% +41% 3.39% +84% 2.86%
Male genital tract cancer 53.60% 56.10% +68% 54.50% +24% 2.57% 2.73% +57% 2.59% +9% 2.28%
Lymphoma 50.40% 56.80% +1442% 57.90% +1704% 0.73% 0.82% +102% 0.82% +98% 0.64%
Non-hodgkins lymphoma 52.10% 56.60% +220% 57.80% +278% 0.61% 0.68% +81% 0.69% +95% 0.53%

#Best AUC highlighted in bold

*Relativeincrease=MTLAUCbaselineAUCSTLAUCbaselineAUCSTLAUCbaselineAUC×100%