Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-744, Korea.
The purpose of the current study was to develop support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural network (ANN) models for the pre-operative prediction of advanced prostate cancer by using the parameters acquired from transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided prostate biopsies, and to compare the accuracies between the two models.
Five hundred thirty-two consecutive patients who underwent prostate biopsies and prostatectomies for prostate cancer were divided into the training and test groups (n = 300 versus n = 232). From the data in the training group, two clinical decision support systems (CDSSs-[SVM and ANN]) were constructed with input (age, prostate specific antigen level, digital rectal examination, and five biopsy parameters) and output data (the probability for advanced prostate cancer [> pT3a]). From the data of the test group, the accuracy of output data was evaluated. The areas under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) were calculated to summarize the overall performances, and a comparison of the ROC curves was performed (p < 0.05).
The AUC of SVM and ANN is 0.805 and 0.719, respectively (p = 0.020), in the pre-operative prediction of advanced prostate cancer.
The performance of SVM is superior to ANN in the pre-operative prediction of advanced prostate cancer.
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Kim SY, Moon SK, Jung DC, Hwang SI, Sung CK, Cho JY, Kim SH, Lee J, Lee HJ. Are you the author?
Reference: Korean J Radiol. 2011 Sep;12(5):588-94.
doi: 10.3348/kjr.2011.12.5.588
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 21927560
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