Research Article

Design and Assessment of a Robust and Generalizable ANN-Based Classifier for the Prediction of Premature Birth by means of Multichannel Electrohysterographic Records

Table 4

Mean and standard deviation (between brackets) of different classifier metrics obtained for the test datasets for the 10 balanced data obtained using SMOTE techniques. For each balanced dataset, a cross validation method was carried out 30 times.

Accuracy (%)AUC (%)Sensibility (%)Specificity (%)PPV (%)NPV (%)

C173.2 (1.3)76.5 (2.1)70.5 (2.0)75.3 (2.2)74.8 (2.7)73.6 (2.1)
C275.2 (1.5)79.7 (2.3)72.1 (2.1)76.2 (2.4)75.2 (2.7)73.9 (2.2)
C380.2 (1.5)83.7 (2.7)76.7 (2.3)82.6 (2.7)79.8 (3.2)77.6 (1.7)
C481.6 (1.5)84.8 (2.8)77.3 (1.9)83.4 (2.5)81.6 (3.3)78.7 (1.8)
C582.8 (1.5)84.7 (2.4)79.3 (1.8)84.1 (2.2)83.6 (3.2)80.1 (1.5)
C683.1 (1.6)85.2 (2.6)79.8 (1.9)84.7 (2.0)83.4 (2.9)79.8 (2.2)
C781.7 (1.6)86.6 (2.8)79.7 (1.8)85.2 (2.8)84.5 (3.1)80.1 (2.0)
C883.5 (1.6)88.2 (2.9)80.8 (1.8)86.3 (3.1)85.3 (2.7)81.6 (1.9)
C985.8 (1.4)88.7 (2.3)81.8 (2.0)87.3 (2.8)86.3 (3.2)81.2 (1.7)
C1087.9 (1.6)91.1 (2.5)84.4 (2.1)89.2 (2.6)88.7 (2.7)84.3 (1.9)