Research Article

Detection of COVID-19 Using Protein Sequence Data via Machine Learning Classification Approach

Table 6

Average specificity of different models for different training percentage.

Training percentageGA+KNNSVM-RFE+KNNLASSO+KNNGA+Naïve BayesSVM-RFE+Naïve BayesLASSO+Naïve BayesGA+XGBoostSVM-RFE+XGBoostLASSO+XGBoost

60%98.79%98.93%96.90%90.65%90.41%87.72%92.12%98.01%94.16%
70%98.38%98.40%96.61%91.38%90.65%87.98%95.24%98.01%94.44%
80%99.01%99.34%97.01%91.51%91.40%88.24%93.11%98.08%95.05%
90%99.04%99.52%96.87%91.90%91.76%88.16%93.44%96.08%93.84%

Highest specificity achieved at a training percentage of 90% using the SVM-RFE+KNN model, reaching 99.52%, as observed from the boldfaced entries.