Table 2 Comparison of AUC and Brier scores for 3 machine learning models.

From: Survival impact of adjuvant radiotherapy in early stage low risk elderly male breast cancer patients treated with breast conserving surgery

Models

C-index

AUC

3-year

5-year

10-year

Cox model

0.713

0.597

0.737

0.707

GBM model

0.700

0.569

0.705

0.690

XGBoost model

0.688

0.571

0.718

0.682

  1. Abbreviations: C-index, concordance index; AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; GBM, gradient boosting machine; XGBoost, extreme gradient boosting.