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. 2012 May;50(5):1524–1532. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00111-12

Table 3.

The prediction accuracies of RF and SVM algorithms on PFGE patterns standardized by the BioNumerics fixed-band method and NCTR fixed-band method using either the group 1 or group 2 band class as the standard

Algorithm and S. enterica serotype group and name % Accuracy by method and groupa
BioNumerics fixed-band method
NCTR fixed-band method
G1 as the standard G2 as the standard Avg of the serotypes G1 as the standard G2 as the standard Avg of the serotypes
RF algorithm
    Most frequent serotypes (n = 20)
        I 4,[5],12:i:− 90.1 90.5 90.3 91.7 91.0 91.3
        Agona 99.9 99.7 99.8 99.9 99.7 99.8
        Braenderup 98.9 98.7 98.8 99.7 99.8 99.7
        Enteritidis 99.6 99.5 99.5 99.7 99.8 99.7
        Hadar 99.4 99.0 99.2 99.0 98.5 98.7
        Heidelberg 99.5 99.8 99.6 99.9 99.7 99.8
        Infantis 98.5 98.7 98.6 99.8 99.9 99.8
        Javiana 99.7 99.5 99.6 99.9 99.0 99.4
        Mississippi 99.4 99.1 99.3 99.4 99.4 99.4
        Montevideo 96.2 97.2 96.7 99.8 99.6 99.7
        Muenchen 98.3 98.7 98.5 98.9 99.3 99.1
        Newport 98.0 98.1 98.1 99.3 99.5 99.4
        Oranienburg 98.5 98.3 98.4 99.4 99.2 99.3
        Paratyphi B var. L(+) tartrate+ 98.3 97.6 97.9 99.7 99.6 99.6
        Poona 98.9 98.7 98.8 97.8 98.1 98.0
        Saintpaul 99.7 99.6 99.6 99.6 99.2 99.4
        Thompson 98.2 98.0 98.1 100.0 99.4 99.7
        Typhi 99.9 99.8 99.8 99.6 99.7 99.6
        Typhimurium 66.6 64.8 65.7 70.9 68.5 69.7
        Typhimurium var. 5− 70.9 72.1 71.5 72.8 72.0 72.4
    Less frequent serotypes (n = 12)
        Anatum 75.9 78.3 77.0 96.6 96.2 96.4
        Bareilly 82.2 72.0 77.1 75.2 52.0 63.6
        Berta 95.0 97.2 96.2 94.0 99.1 96.7
        Derby 91.6 91.4 91.5 88.8 88.6 88.7
        Hartford 97.3 97.1 97.2 98.2 95.2 96.8
        Litchfield 98.1 94.8 96.2 97.1 97.0 97.0
        Mbandaka 99.1 96.2 97.4 100.0 99.4 99.6
        Panama 90.4 90.3 90.4 91.3 81.5 86.0
        Paratyphi A 100.0 96.5 97.0 100.0 88.7 90.4
        Schwarzengrund 93.4 95.8 94.7 97.2 95.0 96.0
        Senftenberg 81.5 74.2 77.8 92.4 86.6 89.4
        Stanley 93.1 91.5 92.2 92.2 91.5 91.8
    Total for the group 95.1 95.9
SVM algorithm
    Most frequent serotypes (n = 20)
        I 4,[5],12:i:− 91.5 91.2 91.3 93.0 92.3 92.6
        Agona 99.5 99.7 99.6 100.0 100.0 100.0
        Braenderup 98.6 98.5 98.5 99.8 99.7 99.7
        Enteritidis 99.3 98.9 99.1 99.8 99.8 99.8
        Hadar 99.1 99.1 99.1 99.1 98.5 98.8
        Heidelberg 99.5 99.7 99.6 99.8 99.9 99.8
        Infantis 98.4 98.0 98.2 99.8 99.8 99.8
        Javiana 99.8 99.5 99.6 99.9 99.6 99.7
        Mississippi 99.6 99.6 99.6 99.6 99.2 99.4
        Montevideo 97.3 97.9 97.6 100.0 99.6 99.8
        Muenchen 99.5 99.0 99.3 99.6 99.6 99.6
        Newport 98.4 98.6 98.5 99.6 99.6 99.6
        Oranienburg 97.2 98.1 97.6 99.4 99.6 99.5
        Paratyphi B var. L(+) tartrate+ 98.1 97.9 98.0 99.5 99.4 99.5
        Poona 99.5 99.7 99.6 99.3 99.3 99.3
        Saintpaul 99.1 99.6 99.4 99.5 99.2 99.3
        Thompson 98.0 98.2 98.1 99.8 99.1 99.5
        Typhi 100.0 100.0 100.0 99.8 99.9 99.8
        Typhimurium 65.5 64.8 65.2 67.9 66.0 67.0
        Typhimurium var. 5− 72.1 70.3 71.2 72.8 71.3 72.0
    Less frequent serotypes (n = 12)
        Anatum 50.9 68.9 59.5 98.3 95.3 96.8
        Bareilly 93.1 85.0 89.0 91.1 66.0 78.5
        Berta 94.0 96.3 95.2 95.0 96.3 95.7
        Derby 88.8 91.4 90.1 86.0 89.5 87.7
        Hartford 96.5 95.2 95.9 95.6 95.2 95.4
        Litchfield 92.2 90.3 91.1 94.2 94.8 94.5
        Mbandaka 97.3 95.6 96.3 99.1 98.7 98.9
        Panama 92.3 96.0 94.3 90.4 88.7 89.5
        Paratyphi A 100.0 92.2 93.3 100.0 90.4 91.9
        Schwarzengrund 92.5 93.3 92.9 99.1 95.0 96.9
        Senftenberg 91.3 85.6 88.4 91.3 89.7 90.5
        Stanley 94.1 94.0 94.1 95.1 95.7 95.4
    Total for the group 95.1 96.1