Table 2 The accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and the area under receiver operating characteristic curve obtained for the set of 23 variables

PNN

0.892

0.975

0.609

0.818

p<0.001

MLP

0.802

0.937

0.339

0.659

p<0.001

GEP

0.800

0.930

0.352

0.651

p<0.001

SVM

0.740

0.956

0.000

0.478

p<0.001

LRA

0.703

0.804

0.357

0.559

Non applicable

RBFNN

0.693

0.780

0.396

0.640

p<0.001

k-Means

0.611

0.757

0.109

0.406

p<0.001