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. 2016 Mar 12;16:23. doi: 10.1186/s12880-016-0117-0

Table 6.

Comparison of the performance of different classifiers for healthy and unhealthy discrimination

Classifier Sensitivity(%) Specificity(%) Harmonic mean(%)
RLR 96.4 96.7 96.5
SVM 95.5 81.7 88.1
DT 95.0 96.7 95.8
NB 92.9 100.0 96.3
hDT_RLR 98.6 96.7 97.6
hDT_SVM 98.6 8.3 87.3
hDT_NB 95.0 6.7 95.8
hLR_SVM 95.6 78.3 86.1
hLR_DT 95.0 96.7 95.8
hLR_NB 95.0 96.7 95.8
hSVM_LR 95.6 96.7 96.1
hSVM_DT 92.9 96.7 94.7
hSVM_NB 92.9 100.0 96.3
hNB_LR 92.9 96.7 94.7
hNB_DT 92.9 96.7 94.7
hNB_SVM 98.6 78.3 87.3

Classification methods used in the experiments. Regularized Logistic Regression (RLR), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), Naive Bayes (NB), combined DT+RLR (hDT_RLR), DT+SVM (hDT_SVM), DT+NB (hDT_NB), LR+SVM (hLR_SVM), LR+DT (hLR_DT), LR+NB (hLR_NB), SVM+LR (hSVM_LR), SVM+DT (hSVM_DT), SVM+NB (hSVM_NB), NB+LR (hNB_LR), NB+DT (hNB_DT), NB+SVM (hNB_SVM)