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. 2024 Jan 3;19(1):e0295501. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295501

Table 1. A summary of recent publications for diagnosing thyroid disease using machine learning and deep learning approaches.

Ref Year Dataset Sample Size Target Distribution Models Accuracy Score
[26] 2019 Medical Facility, Kashmir 807 Imbalanced KNN, DT, SVM, and NB KNN: 91.82%, SVM: 96.52%, NB: 91.57&, and DT: 98.9%
[8] 2019 UCI 50 N/A DT, SVM, and MLR DT: 97.97%
[7] 2020 UCI 3710 Imbalanced DT, RF, ET, and Ensemble DT: 98%, RF: 99%, ET: 93%, and Ensemble: 100%
[27] 2021 UCI 215 Imbalanced KNN, DT, and LR KNN: 96.875%, DT: 87.5%, and LR: 81.25%
[9] 2021 DHQ, DG Khan, Pakistan 309 Imbalanced SVM, KNN, DT, LR, and NB KNN-L1: 97.84%, KNN-L2: 96.77%, DT-L1: 75.34%, DT-L2: 76.92%, NB-L1: 100%, NB-L2: 100%, SVM-L1: 86.02%, SVM-L2: 86.02%, LR-L1: 100%, and LR-L2: 98.82%
[29] 2021 Labs and Hospitals in Iraq 1250 N/A DT, SVM, RF, NB, LR, KNN, LDA Linear Discriminant Analysis, and MLP Multi-layer Perceptron DT: 98.4%, SVM: 92.27%, RF: 98.93%, NB: 81.33%, LR: 91.47%, LDA:83.2%, KNN:90.93%, and MLP: 97.6%
[10] 2021 UCI 7200 N/A SVM and RF SVM: 93% and RF: 92%
[30] 2021 DHQ, DG Khan, Pakistan 309 Imbalanced RF, Base Meta Estimator (BME), AdaBoost, and XGBoost Accuracy = 100%
[28] 2022 UCI 3152 Imbalanced KNN, DNN KNN-PCA: 94.92%, KNN-SVD: 95.72%, KNN-DT: 97.94%, DNN-PCA: 96.04%, DNN-SVD: 96.67%, DNN-DT: 98.70%, and DNN-GD: 99.95%
[31] 2022 UCI Thyroid 0387 7200 N/A RF, BME, AdaBoost, and XGBoost LR-RFE: 99.27%
[35] 2022 UCI 1774 Balanced RF, GBM, LR, AdaBoost, SVM, LSTM, CNN, CNN-LSTM RF-MLFS: 99%