Research Article

A Deep Belief Network and Dempster-Shafer-Based Multiclassifier for the Pathology Stage of Prostate Cancer

Table 5

Results of a DBN-DS confusion matrix comparing the training and validation sets.

VariableTraining setValidation set
SensitivitySpecificityAccuracySensitivitySpecificityAccuracy

DBN#1Initial PSA38.57%91.39%70.78%41.93%88.68%70.60%
DBN#2Gleason score32.51%89.18%67.26%37.00%88.47%68.56%
DBN#3Clinical T stage21.19%94.20%65.96%26.23%93.85%67.69%
DBN#1, DBN#2Initial PSA, Gleason score41.48%93.71%73.50%41.48%93.00%73.07%
DBN#1, DBN#3Initial PSA, Clinical T stage40.02%94.55%73.46%40.02%93.85%73.03%
DBN#2, DBN#3Gleason score, Clinical T stage34.19%94.91%71.42%34.19%93.49%70.56%
DBN#1, DBN#2, DBN#3 (proposed)Initial PSA, Gleason score, Clinical T stage65.13%94.29%82.60%61.77%93.56%81.27%