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Table 2 Classification results

From: A critical assessment of SELDI-TOF-MS for biomarker discovery in serum and tissue of patients with an ovarian mass

A

Serum training cohort

 

CM10

Q10

 

accuracy

sens

spec

accuracy

sens

spec

DLDA

81

75

86

73

71

75

SVM

79

75

83

71

69

73

Serum validation cohort

DLDA

   

73

88

62

SVM

   

81

81

81

B

Tissue predicted (%)

 

Benign

LMP

Cancer

Benign (true)

82.1

17.6

0.3

LMP (true)

10.6

64.5

24.9

Cancer (true)

3.4

10.6

86.0

  1. A. Classification of serum samples on the training and independent validation cohort. Training cohort: average classification accuracy, sensitivity (sens), and specificity (spec) (in percentage) of discriminating ovarian cancer versus benign tumor for CM10 and Q10 arrays on 500 test sets (repeated random sampling; size training sets: 80, size test sets: 47 for CM10, 48 for Q10). Validation cohort: classification accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity (in percentage) of the classifiers trained on all serum training data for Q10 validation data only. Classification models: SVM (support vector machine) and DLDA (diagonal linear discriminant analysis) with feature selection.
  2. B. Confusion matrix giving the percentage of cases (average over 500 test sets) from one class classified into each of the three classes. Rows correspond to the correct class, columns to the predicted class. Results are for DLDA with three different classes: benign tumors, tumors of low malignant potential (LMP) and cancer tissue (Q10 data).