Discriminating the Nature of Thyroid Nodules Using the Hybrid Method

Table 4

Experimental results of various techniques.

Features	Methods	Accuracy	Sensitivity	Specificity	Training time (s)	Testing time (s)
SF-TTEST	LR	0.78	0.76	0.793	6.5	1.8
	Naive Bayes	0.764	0.75	0.772	6.2	1.5
	SVM	0.784	0.77	0.793	17.8	5.2
SF-PCA	LR	0.795	0.77	0.807	8.6	1.9
	Naive Bayes	0.784	0.76	0.793	8.5	1.8
	SVM	0.804	0.79	0.814	18.7	5.3
SF	LR	0.755	0.75	0.758	9.4	2.1
	Naive Bayes	0.733	0.71	0.751	8.9	1.9
	SVM	0.776	0.76	0.786	19.8	5.7
FC6	LR	0.784	0.77	0.793	57.9	11.2
	Naive Bayes	0.755	0.74	0.766	48.2	10.6
	SVM	0.812	0.79	0.828	109.1	12.7