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Brain Model Based on the Canonical Ensemble with Functional MRI: A Thermodynamic Exploration of the Neural System

Table 8

Results of the classification for AD/NC (%).

Feature selectionDistanceCorrelationCosineEuclidean

TP-KendallSpecificity84.93 ± 2.2185.18 ± 2.1879.77 ± 2.41
Sensitivity73.48 ± 2.4573.41 ± 2.5773.20 ± 2.38
Accuracy80.35 ± 1.7180.47 ± 1.7277.14 ± 1.66

TP-ExpertSpecificity73.32 ± 1.3071.81 ± 1.3371.73 ± 1.17
Sensitivity70.91 ± 1.9167.69 ± 2.0368.74 ± 1.94
Accuracy72.36 ± 1.0070.16 ± 1.0270.53 ± 1.01

BN-KendallSpecificity73.55 ± 2.5977.99 ± 2.5275.55 ± 2.60
Sensitivity65.96 ± 3.8166.22 ± 3.1965.62 ± 3.58
Accuracy70.51 ± 2.0473.28 ± 1.8471.58 ± 1.95

TP-Kendall, TP-Expert, and BN-Kendall represent three different methods of feature selection designed in Section 2.5.2. Correlation, cosine, and Euclidean represent correlation distance, cosine distance, and Euclidean distance.