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. 2021 Jul 6;23:178. doi: 10.1186/s13075-021-02567-y

Table 2.

Prediction of remission for bDMARDs

Follow-up period (year), mean (sd) Remission/total Measurement Baseline Lasso Ridge SVM Random forest Xgboost
All bDMARDs 0.96 (0.30) 564/1397 (40.4%) Sensitivity 0.0% 33.1% 29.6% 24.9% 0.6% 32.2%
Specificity 100.0% 79.9% 83.1% 85.1% 100.0% 80.5%
Accuracy 59.6% 61.0% 61.5% 60.5% 59.8% 62.0%
AUROC 0.500 0.614 0.619 0.602 0.608 0.596
TNF inhibitors 0.93 (0.32) 252/793 (31.8%) Sensitivity 0.0% 10.7% 21.3% 9.3% 0.0% 20.0%
Specificity 100.0% 97.5% 92.6% 96.0% 100.0% 91.4%
Accuracy 68.2% 69.6% 70.0% 68.4% 68.4% 68.8%
AUROC 0.500 0.649 0.655 0.633 0.644 0.637
Non-TNF inhibitors 1.01 (0.27) 312/604 (51.7%) Sensitivity 0.0% 62.4% 64.5% 62.4% 75.3% 57.0%
Specificity 100.0% 52.3% 51.7% 51.7% 33.3% 48.9%
Accuracy 51.7% 57.8% 57.8% 58.3% 55.3% 52.8%
AUROC 0.500 0.605 0.607 0.606 0.586 0.538
Adalimumab 0.93 (0.31) 91/289 (31.5%) Sensitivity 0.0% 22.2% 29.6% 37.0% 0.0% 14.8%
Specificity 100.0% 91.5% 88.1% 81.4% 100.0% 93.2%
Accuracy 68.5% 69.8% 69.8% 67.4% 68.6% 69.8%
AUROC 0.500 0.680 0.688 0.663 0.623 0.629
Etanercept 0.99 (0.34) 75/220 (34.1%) Sensitivity 0.0% 29.5% 36.4% 40.9% 0.0% 22.7%
Specificity 100.0% 86.0% 83.7% 79.1% 100.0% 88.4%
Accuracy 65.9% 67.7% 67.7% 66.2% 66.2% 64.6%
AUROC 0.500 0.634 0.656 0.643 0.656 0.619
Golimumab 0.97 (0.30) 41/122 (33.6%) Sensitivity 0.0% 0.0% 41.7% 50.0% 0.0% 16.7%
Specificity 100.0% 100.0% 79.2% 66.7% 100.0% 95.8%
Accuracy 66.4% 66.7% 63.9% 61.1% 66.7% 66.7%
AUROC 0.500 0.615 0.694 0.623 0.659 0.635
Infliximab 0.85 (0.32) 45/162 (27.8%) Sensitivity 0.0% 30.8% 23.1% 30.8% 0.0% 15.4%
Specificity 100.0% 82.9% 88.6% 80.0% 100.0% 85.7%
Accuracy 72.2% 66.7% 70.8% 64.6% 72.9% 66.7%
AUROC 0.500 0.595 0.626 0.544 0.600 0.511
Abatacept 0.99 (0.30) 62/194 (32.0%) Sensitivity 0.0% 11.1% 30.6% 38.9% 0.0% 27.8%
Specificity 100.0% 94.9% 84.6% 75.6% 100.0% 82.1%
Accuracy 68.0% 68.4% 68.4% 63.2% 68.4% 64.9%
AUROC 0.500 0.635 0.679 0.636 0.618 0.598
Tocilizumab 1.01 (0.26) 250/410 (61.0%) Sensitivity 0.0% 76.0% 81.3% 80.0% 80.0% 77.3%
Specificity 100.0% 29.2% 22.9% 22.9% 21.9% 22.9%
Accuracy 61.0% 57.7% 58.5% 61.0% 56.9% 56.1%
AUROC 0.500 0.552 0.555 0.556 0.522 0.512

bDMARDs adalimumab, etanercept, golimumab, infliximab, abatacept, and tocilizumab, TNF inhibitors adalimumab, etanercept, golimumab, infliximab, non-TNF inhibitors abatacept and tocilizumab. N total number of samples for the drug category. Baseline accuracy: remission rate not achieved by clinicians except for tocilizumab and non-TNF inhibitors; baseline AUROC: the value when selecting random or one side