Table 6

Comparison of the classifier performance using i) a variable subset of our 7 genes, ii) a set of 17 genes identified by ROC with Markov Blanket [9], iii) a set of 17 genes identified by LAD [15], iv) a set of 70 genes identified by van 't Veer [3] and v) a set of 231 genes identified by van 't Veer [3]

Classifier

Subsets of our 7 genes

Our 7 genes

Set of 17 genes [9]

Set of 17 genes [15]

Set of 70 genes [3]

Set of 231 genes [3]

C4.5 with boosting

91.67%

84.52%

68.42%

59.52%

54.76%

76.19%

C4.5

84.52%

84.52%

68.42%

57.90%*

42.11%*

73.68%*

k-NN

80.36%

77.38%

74.21%

63.16%*

63.16%*

78.94%*

Logistic Regression

81.55%

77.38%

73.68%

73.68%*

47.37%*

73.68%*

ANN

77.38%

76.19%

84.21%

84.21%*

42.11%*

73.68%*

SVM

83.33%

76.19%

79.47%

63.16%*

57.90%*

73.68%*

*Results adopted from Alexe et al. [15].

Hassan et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S19   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S19