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. 2012 Sep 24;41(1):e21. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks878

Table 4.

Comparison of the performance of different methods on training data using 20 selected features

Algorithms Performance measurement
ACC Sn Sp PPV FPR AUC
K-nearest neighbors (kNN) 95.511 83.3 99.2 96.7 0.8 0.966
Support vector machine (SVM) 95.528 85.1 98.6 94.8 1.4 0.972
Artificial neural network (MLP) 95.283 86.5 97.9 92.4 2.1 0.964
Decision tree (J48) 94.581 84.4 97.6 91.3 2.4 0.920
RBF networks (RBFNets) 94.352 86.4 96.7 88.7 3.3 0.968
Rule based (RIPPER) 94.809 84.0 98.0 92.6 2.0 0.923
Naïve bayes (NB) 93.585 85.5 96.0 86.4 4.0 0.955
Random forest (RF) 95.283 86.7 97.8 92.1 2.2 0.965

Sn = Sensitivity, Sp = Specificity, PPV = Positive predictive value, ACC = Accuracy, FPR = False positive rate and AUC = Area under ROC curve. The highest values are in bold.