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. 2023 Nov 8;25:e48754. doi: 10.2196/48754

Table 4.

Pooled mean estimates of highest sensitivity by several factors.

Group Studies, Na Sample size, N Sensitivity (%), range Pooled mean sensitivity, mean (95% CIb) Heterogeneity measures Test for subgroup differences (P value)





τ2 Q (P value) I2 (%)
Algorithms .53

Random forest 5 10,424 0.57-0.99 0.78 (0.56-0.94) 0.0638 539.7 (<.001) 99.3

Support vector machine 3 37,807 0.47-1.00 0.84 (0.45-1.00) 0.1434 520.6 (<.001) 99.6

Decision tree 3 10,149 0.58-0.98 0.87 (0.57-1.00) 0.0884 427.7 (<.001) 99.5

Multilayer perceptron 3 206 0.60-0.90 0.76 (0.54-0.93) 0.0333 15.99 (<.001) 87.4

Logistic regression 2 47 0.63-0.71 0.66 (0.52-0.79) 0.0000 0.2 (.64) 0.0

XGBoost 2 359 0.21-0.85 0.52 (0.01-1.00) 0.2192 44.1 (<.001) 97.7
Aims of AIc .70

Detectionb 17 95,770 0.47-1.00 0.82 (0.54-0.93) 0.4634 7418.4 (<.001) 99.9

Prediction 7 2041 0.21-0.85 0.69 (0.01-0.93) 0.2090 58.5 (<.001) 99.9
Status of WDd .74

Commercialb 20 97,299 0.21-1.00 0.78 (0.46-0.92) 0.4808 16,064.4 (<.001) 99.9

Noncommercialb 4 495 0.75-0.93 0.87 (0.50-0.97) 0.0864 7.3 (.06) 91.2
Data sources .86

WD-basedb 15 95,313 0.47-1.00 0.80 (0.51-0.93) 0.4507 6773.9 (<.001) 100

WD-based and othersb 9 2481 0.21-0.93 0.77 (0.01-0.97) 0.4715 416.5 (<.001) 99.2
Reference standards .36

STAIb,e 7 153 0.60-0.83 0.72 (0.59-0.81) 0.0000 4.4 (.62) 2.8

CIDIf 2 46 0.70-0.85 0.78 (0.63-0.91) 0.0036 1.3 (.25) 24.9
Validation methods .34

K-foldb 18 97,045 0.21-1.00 0.83 (0.48-0.95) 0.5614 14.910.3 (<.001) 100

Leave-one-out 2 254 0.47-0.57 0.50 (0.40-0.59) 0.0018 1.5 (.22) 33.3
All studiesb 24 97,794 0.21-1.00 0.79 (0.57-0.91) 0.4039 16,735.8 (<.001) 99.9 N/Ag

aMany studies were included more than once in each meta-analysis given that they assessed the performance of more than one algorithm.

bSensitivity was pooled using the multilevel meta-analysis method.

cAI: artificial intelligence.

dWD: wearable device.

eSTAI: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.

fCIDI: Composite International Diagnostic Interview.

gN/A: not applicable.