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.
| | Parameter | IRC (%) | Afirma (%) | ThyroSeq v2 (%) | ThyroSeq v3 (%) | ThyGenX/thyraMIR (%) | Rosseta GX reveal (%) |
| | Sensitivity | 99 | 92 | 90 | 98 | 89 | 98 | | Specificity | 58 | 52 | 93 | 82 | 85 | 78 | | Positive predictive value | 37–61 | 32–56 | 76–90 | 57–78 | 60–80 | 53–75 | | Negative predictive value | 98–99 | 91–96 | 93–97 | 98–99 | 92–97 | 98–99 |
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IRC: immune-related classifier.
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