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Table 3 ROC results with six machine-learning classifiers of validation set

From: CT imaging-based machine learning model: a potential modality for predicting low-risk and high-risk groups of thymoma: “Impact of surgical modality choice”

Risk groups

Statistical measures

KNN

SVM

XGBoost

RF

LR

DT

Low

AUC

0.943

0.857

0.8

0.693

0.943

0.436

95% CI

0.85–1

0.66–1

0.58–1

0.45–0.93

0.74–1

0.18–0.69

Sensitivity

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.8

0.8

0.3

Specificity

0.86

0.86

0.71

0.43

0.86

0.57

High

AUC

0.943

0.857

0.8

0.693

0.943

0.436

95% CI

0.85–1

0.66–1

0.58–1

0.45–0.93

0.74–1.00

0.18–0.69

Sensitivity

0.86

0.86

0.71

0.43

0.86

0.57

Specificity

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.8

0.8

0.3

  1. KNN k-nearest neighbor, SVM support vector machine, XGBoost eXtreme Gradient Boosting, RF random forest, LR logistic regression, DT decision tree