Research Article

Ensemble Methods with Voting Protocols Exhibit Superior Performance for Predicting Cancer Clinical Endpoints and Providing More Complete Coverage of Disease-Related Genes

Table 3

Voting results of BRCA.

PlatformsClassVote from all methodsVote after filteringMCC avgMCC max

BRCA-mRNAbayes0.76200.76200.53270.7766
functions0.72520.77660.36960.7938
lazy0.76200.74230.67970.7793
meta0.72740.72740.72950.8085
misc0.58210.64660.54490.7869
rules0.72740.72740.50690.7967
trees0.72740.72740.72070.8085
overall0.72740.72740.59850.8085

BRCA-miRNAbayes0.72370.68950.35440.7067
functions0.67330.69080.10800.7566
lazy0.62140.62140.50670.6736
meta0.62780.62780.61420.7269
misc0.32030.57730.28160.6383
rules0.59900.62780.39330.7234
trees0.64270.66020.60660.7566
overall0.64050.69080.44270.7566

BRCA-mRNA and BRCA-miRNAbayes0.74230.72520.44360.7766
functions0.65550.79150.23880.7938
lazy0.75950.75950.59320.7793
meta0.75950.75950.67190.8085
misc0.56240.67560.41330.7869
rules0.70800.77460.45010.7967
trees0.75950.75950.66360.8085
overall0.74070.77460.52060.8085

All of the measurements in the tables are MCCs, and the vote after filtering is the MCC based on the eliminated methods. The “avg” is the average of the MCCs.