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. 2023 Aug 30;15(8):e44415. doi: 10.7759/cureus.44415

Table 6. Previous reports on AI diagnosis for headache disorders.

Abbreviations: AI, artificial intelligence; LGBM, light gradient boosting machine; TACs, trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias; TTH, tension-type headache; MOH, medication-overuse headache. †, calculated in macro-average.

Author Year Output by the model Methods Variables Training sample number Test sample number Validation sample number %Migraine Accuracy Sensitivity (recall) Specificity Precision F-value
Yin [55] 2015 2 class; Migraine or TTH Case-based reasoning + Genetic algorithm 81 676 222 Not performed 76.10% 93.00% 97.02% 79.20% 93.14% 95.04%
Walters [54] 2016 2 class; Migraine or Other headache disorders Logistic regression 4 887 942 Not performed 9.40% 92% 94% 92% 64% 93%
Vandewiele [56] 2018 3 class; Migraine, TTH, TACs Decision tree Not described 849 - 32 Not described 98% 98% 98% Not described Not described
Kwon [57] 2020 5 class; Migraine, TTH, TACs, Thunderclap headache, Epicranial headache eXtreme Gradient Boosting, 75 1286 876 Not performed 68.49% 58.60%† 58.70%† 85.64%† 65.28%† 58.64%†
Cowan [58] 2022 2 class; Migraine or Other headache disorders Decision tree 135 - - 212 62% 92% 89% 97% 98% 93%
Katsuki  [10] 2022 5 class; Migraine or MOH, TTH, TACs, Other primary headaches, Secondary headaches Light gradient boosting machine 17 2800 1200 50 60.00% 90.00% 68.57% 95.00% 96.43% 88.08%
Katsuki  [60]  2023 5 class; Migraine or MOH, TTH, TACs, Other primary headaches, Secondary headaches Gradient boosting classifier 22 4240 1818 Not performed. 79.7% 93.7%† 40.6%† 48.5%† 88.7%† 43.5%†
This study 2023 2 class; Migraine or Other headache disorders Extremely randomized trees 14 636 273 Not performed. 26.3% 94.5% 88.7% 96.5% 90.0% 89.4%