Table 4 Comparison of classification performance with existing research.

From: An integrated machine learning framework for a discriminative analysis of schizophrenia using multi-biological data

References

Sample size

Input feature

Feature selection method

Classifier

Cross validation method

Performance

Shen et al.4

SZ = 64

HC = 53

Gut microbiota

Boruta variable selection

RF

None

AUC = 0.837

Brisa et al.14

SZ = 58

HC = 123

Blood and cognitive

PLS-DA

LDA

Tenfold

Accuracy = 0.86

AUC = 0.89

Jason et al.20

SZ = 40

HC = 12

EEG

None

SVM

None

Accuracy = 0.87

Sensitivity = 0.90

Specificity = 0.77

Sai Krishna Tikka et al.21

SZ = 38

HC = 20

EEG

None

SVM

Hold-out

Accuracy = 0.79

Sensitivity = 0.92

Specificity = 0.50

AUC = 0.71

Our best

SZ = 49

HC = 50

Gut microbiota

Blood

EEG

None

SVM

Tenfold

Accuracy = 0.92

Sensitivity = 0.92

Specificity = 0.92

AUC = 0.97

  1. RF random forest, PLS-DA partial least squares discriminant analysis, LDA linear discriminant analysis, EEG electroencephalogram, SVM support vector machine, AUC area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.