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. 2018 Mar 7;13(3):e0194085. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194085

Table 4. Test characteristics of UTI prediction models on validation data*.

Models AUC (95%CI) Sensitivity (95% CI) Specificity
(95% CI)
+LR (95% CI) -LR (95% CI) Accuracy (95% CI) P–value
XGBoost .904(.898-.910) 61.7(60.0–63.3) 94.9 (94.5–95.3) 12.0(11.1–13.0) .404(.387-.421) 87.5 (87.0–88.0) NA
Random Forest .902(.896-.908) 57.3(55.6–58.9) 96.0 (95.6–96.3) 14.3(13.0–15.6) .445(.428-.462) 87.4 (86.9–87.9) 0.58
Adaboost .880(.874-.887) 62.2(60.6–63.8) 92.3(91.8–92.7) 8.06(7.54–8.61) .409(.392-.427) 85.6(85.1–86.2) < .001
Support Vector Machine .878(.871-.884) 49.6(47.9–51.2) 96.8(96.4–97.1) 15.3(13.8–16.9) .521(.504-.538) 86.3(85.7–86.8) < .001
ElasticNet .892(.885-.898) 56.8(55.2–58.4) 94.9(94.5–95.2) 11.1(10.2–12.0) .455(.438-.473) 86.4(85.9–87.0) < .001
Logistic Regression .891 (.884-.897) 57.5(55.8–59.1) 94.7(94.3–95.1) 10.9(10.0–11.8) .449(.432-.466) 86.4(85.9–87.0) < .001
Neural Network .884 (.878-.890) 54.6(52.9–56.2) 95.3(95.0–95.7) 11.7(10.8–12.8) .476(.460-.494) 86.3(85.8–86.8) <001
Reduced XGBoost .877(.871-.884) 54.7(53.0–56.3) 94.7(94.3–95.1) 10.4(9.6–11.3) .479(.462-.496) 85.9(85.3–86.4) < .001
Reduced Random Forest .861(.853-.868) 54.8(53.1–56.4) 94.3(93.9–94.7) 9.66(8.94–10.4) .479(.462-.497) 85.5(85.0–86.1) < .001
Reduced Adaboost .826(.817-.834) 61.9(60.3–63.5) 88.8(88.2–89.3) 5.50(5.21–5.81) .429(.412-.448) 82.8(82.2–83.3) < .001
Reduced Support Vector Machine .822(.813-.832) 49.4(47.8–51.1) 95.8(95.4–96.1) 11.7(10.7–12.9) .528(.511-.546) 85.5(84.9–86.0) < .001
Reduced Elastic Net .870(.863-.877) 52.4(50.7–54.1) 95.2(94.8–95.5) 10.9(9.99–11.8) .500(.482-.571) 85.7(85.1–86.2) < .001
ReducedLogistic Regression .870(.863-.877) 53.3(51.6–54.9) 94.8(94.4–95.2) 10.3(9.52–11.2) .492(.476-.510) 85.6(85.0–86.2) < .001
Reduced Neural Network .873(.867-.881) 54.0(52.3–55.6) 95.0(94.6–95.4) 10.9(10.0–11.8) .485(.468-.502) 85.9(85.4–86.5) < .001

* Test Characteristics determined at optimal AUC threshold

Full models were developed on 212 variables, while the reduced models were developed on 10 variables.

P-values obtained by AUC comparison to best performing model