Research Article

Classification of Thyroid Nodules with Stacked Denoising Sparse Autoencoder

Table 6

Comparisons of IRC with five commercial classifiers in the cancer prevalence range of 20–40% for indeterminate thyroid nodules.

ParameterIRC (%)Afirma (%)ThyroSeq v2 (%)ThyroSeq v3 (%)ThyGenX/thyraMIR (%)Rosseta GX reveal (%)

Sensitivity999290988998
Specificity585293828578
Positive predictive value37–6132–5676–9057–7860–8053–75
Negative predictive value98–9991–9693–9798–9992–9798–99

IRC: immune-related classifier.