Research Article

Usage of Probabilistic and General Regression Neural Network for Early Detection and Prevention of Oral Cancer

Table 8

Performance parameter-wise best model for training and validation data.

Estimation parametersDescriptionTraining dataValidation data
Model%Model%

AccuracyAccuracy of classificationPNN/GRNN80.00%PNN/GRNN
TreeBoost
73.76%
72.68%

True positive (TP)Patients who are predicted as malignant among the malignant patientsPNN/GRNN39.76%PNN/GRNN
MLP
35.51%
33.07%

True negative (TN)Patients who are predicted as nonmalignant among nonmalignant patientsPNN/GRNN46.34%Decision tree
PNN/GRNN
43.02%
41.88%

False positive (FP)Patients who are predicted as malignant among nonmalignant patientsPNN/GRNN3.58%PNN/GRNN12.83%

False negative (FN)Patients who are predicted as nonmalignant among malignant patientsPNN/GRNN 3.58%PNN/GRNN
MLP
4.41%
7.22%

Sensitivity Probability to correctly predict malignancyPNN/GRNN92.78%PNN/GRNN
MLP
87.67%
82.08%

SpecificityProbability to correctly predict nonmalignant casesPNN/GRNN79.85%Decision tree
PNN/GRNN
72.06%
69.46%

Geometric mean of sensitivity and specificityGeometric mean of sensitivity and specificityPNN/GRNN80.55%PNN/GRNN
TreeBoost
74.05%
73.55%

Positive predictive value (PPV)Proportion of patients with the disease who are correctly predicted to have the diseasePNN/GRNN71.49%PNN/GRNN
TreeBoost
62.86%
62.86%

Negative predictive value (NPV)Proportion of patients who do not have the disease and who are correctly predicted as not having the diseasePNN/GRNN 90.79%PNN/GRNN
MLP
88.17%
83.56%

Geometric mean of PPV and NPVGeometric mean of PPV and NPVPNN/GRNN79.14%PNN/GRNN
TreeBoost
72.23%
72.23%

Average gain for survival = The gain shows how much of an improvement is provided by the modelPNN/GRNN1.40%PNN/GRNN1.32%

Average gain for survival = The gain shows how much of an improvement is provided by the modelPNN/GRNN1.65%PNN/GRNN1.48%

PrecisionProportion of cases selected by the model that have the true value; precision is equal to PPVPNN/GRNN71.49%TreeBoost
PNN/GRNN
62.86%
63.53%

RecallProportion of the true cases that are identified by the model; recall is equal to sensitivity PNN/GRNN
GMDH
91.8%
91.04%
PNN/GRNN
MLP
86.67%
82.08%

-measureIt combines precision and recall to give an overall measure of the quality of the predictionPNN/GRNN0.7715TreeBoost
PNN/GRNN
0.7021
0.6593

Area under ROC curveArea under the Receive Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve for the modelPNN/GRNN0.892Decision Tree
PNN/GRNN
0.835
0.821