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Table 3 The performance of various models for segregating ATB from LTBI in validation cohort

From: Development of diagnostic algorithm using machine learning for distinguishing between active tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection

Parameters

Validation set (n = 263, 125 ATB, 138 LTBI)

cforest

bart

gamboost

gbm

glmnet

lda

log_reg

svm

AUC (95% CI)

0.963 (0.940–0.986)

0.956 (0.932–0.981)

0.947 (0.919–0.975)

0.958 (0.935–0.981)

0.913 (0.876–0.950)

0.884 (0.841–0.927)

0.910 (0.872–0.949)

0.929 (0.896–0.962)

Sensitivity (95% CI)

92.80% (86.88–96.17%)

85.60% (78.38–90.69%)

82.40% (74.79–88.08%)

89.60% (83.02–93.82%)

78.40% (70.40–84.71%)

69.60% (61.05–76.98%)

80.80% (73.02–86.74%)

82.40% (74.79–88.08%)

Specificity (95% CI)

89.86% (83.69–93.86%)

92.03% (86.29–95.49%)

92.03% (86.29–95.49%)

89.86% (83.69–93.86%)

93.48% (88.07–96.53%)

94.93% (89.90–97.52%)

92.75% (87.18–96.02%)

93.48% (88.07–96.53%)

PPV (95% CI)

89.23% (82.73–93.48%)

90.68% (84.08–94.72%)

90.35% (83.55–94.53%)

88.89% (82.21–93.27%)

91.59% (84.78–95.51%)

92.55% (85.42–96.35%)

90.99% (84.21–95.03%)

91.96% (85.43–95.72%)

NPV (95% CI)

93.23% (87.64–96.40%)

87.59% (81.23–92.00%)

85.23% (78.66–90.04%)

90.51% (84.44–94.37%)

82.69% (75.99–87.82%)

77.51% (70.65–83.16%)

84.21% (77.58–89.15%)

85.43% (78.93–90.18%)

PLR (95% CI)

9.15 (5.55–15.07)

10.74 (6.06–19.02)

10.34 (5.83–18.33)

8.83 (5.36–14.56)

12.02 (6.35–22.76)

13.72 (6.61–28.50)

11.15 (6.10–20.38)

12.63 (6.68–23.89)

NLR (95% CI)

0.08 (0.04–0.15)

0.16 (0.10–0.24)

0.19 (0.13–0.28)

0.12 (0.07–0.19)

0.23 (0.16–0.32)

0.32 (0.24–0.42)

0.21 (0.14–0.30)

0.19 (0.13–0.28)

Accuracy (95% CI)

91.25% (87.22–94.10%)

88.97% (84.61–92.21%)

87.45% (82.90–90.92%)

89.73% (85.48–92.85%)

86.31% (81.63–89.95%)

82.89% (77.87–86.96%)

87.07% (82.48–90.60%)

88.21% (83.76–91.57%)

  1. ATB: active tuberculosis; LTBI: latent tuberculosis infection; AUC: area under the ROC curve; PPV: positive predictive value; NPV: negative predictive value; PLR: positive likelihood ratio; NLR: negative likelihood ratio; CI: confidence interval