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. 2019 Jun 24;11:43. doi: 10.1186/s13321-019-0366-3

Table 2.

Performance measures for selected plasma models predicting cancer status

ADC 1 (training) LOOCV ADC2 (test) external validation
Accuracy (%) Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) AUC Accuracy (%) Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) AUC
Single metabolite classifiers
 3-phosphoglycerate 70.7 60.8 87.1 0.734 51.2 34.9 67.4 0.578
 Maltose 74.4* 82.4 61.3 0.701 57.0* 62.8 51.2 0.607
 Pyrophosphate 69.5 66.7 74.2 0.703 76.7 67.4 86.0 0.811
Multi-metabolite classifiers—clustered metabolites
 Cluster 1a SVMb 80.5* 86.3 71.0 0.713 70.9* 72.1 69.8 0.675

Asterisk represents best model accuracies according to LOOCV accuracy. Best model accuracies according to external validation accuracy are underlined

a3-Phosphoglycerate, pyrophosphate

bSupport vector machines