Table 1 Table defining the acronyms related to the used feature selection and classification methods.

From: Machine Learning methods for Quantitative Radiomic Biomarkers

Classification method acronym

Classification method name

Feature Selection method acronym

Feature selection method name

Nnet

Neural network

RELF

Relief

DT

Decision Tree

FSCR

Fisher score

BST

Boosting

GINI

Gini index

BY

Bayesian

CHSQ

Chi-square score

BAG

Bagging

JMI

Joint mutual information

RF

Random Forset

CIFE

Conditional infomax feature extraction

MARS

Multi adaptive regression splines

DISR

Double input symmetric relevance

SVM

Support vector machines

MIM

Mutual information maximization

DA

Discriminant analysis

CMIM

Conditional mutual information maximization

NN

Neirest neighbour

ICAP

Interaction capping

GLM

Generalized linear models

TSCR

T-test score

PLSR

Partial least squares and prinicipal componenet regression

MRMR

Minimum redundancy maximum relevance

MIFS

Mutual information feature selection

WLCX

Wilcoxon