Research Article

Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytokine Biomarkers for Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis

Table 3

Different model accuracy of MS diagnosis.

Cytokines datasetsModel (accuracy in percentage)
gNBKNNDTXGBRF

IL-1α, IL-4, IL-18, CCL7, CCL27, INFγ, LIF, M- CSF, TNF-α, SCFCSF≥96≥93≥93≥92≥92
Serum≥95≥95≥96≥96≥96
IL-1β, IL-2, IL-7, IL-10, IL-9 IL-12(p70), IL-16, CCL3, CCL4, GM-CSF, PDGF-bb, TRAILCSF≥9699≥96≥9899
IL-8, IL-12p40, CCL2, CCL5, CXCL1, CXCL9, HGF, IFN-α2, b-NGF, SCGF-bSerum≥92≥90≥92≥94≥95

In each cytokine dataset, randomly five cytokines were taken in each model to calculate the accuracy with -fold cross validation. Cytokines found commonly affected in serum and CSF of MS; Cytokines uniquely affected in CSF; Cytokines uniquely affected in serum.