Research Article

Classification of Thyroid Nodules with Stacked Denoising Sparse Autoencoder

Table 5

Performance of the classifiers based on the two common algorithms of machine learning.

ParameterLRSVM
ValueCI of 95%ValueCI of 95%

Proportion of malignancy85.7%85.7%
Area under the curve0.5760.465–0.6870.5760.465–0.687
Accuracy86.9%86.6–87.2%86.9%86.6–87.2%
Sensitivity98.6%95.9–101.3%98.6%95.9–101.3%
Specificity16.7%−4.4–37.8%16.7%−4.4–37.8%
Positive likelihood ratio1.1830.917–1.5261.1830.917–1.526
Negative likelihood ratio0.0830.008–0.8490.0830.008–0.849
Positive predictive value87.7%80.5–94.8%87.7%80.5–94.8%
Negative predictive value66.7%13.3–120.0%66.7%13.3–120%

LR: logistic regression; SVM: support vector machine; CI: confidence interval.