Table 1 Performance comparison of predictive models by cancer type (C-Index and 95% confidence intervals) on evaluation set.
From: Predicting time-to-first cancer diagnosis across multiple cancer types
Cancer Type | Cox proportional hazards | Survival decision tree | RSF |
|---|---|---|---|
Lung | 0.813 (0.803–0.824) | 0.784 (0.773–0.796) | 0.802 (0.791–0.813) |
Liver | 0.759 (0.725–0.789) | 0.742 (0.704—0.772) | 0.740 (0.701–0.772) |
Bladder | 0.747 (0.734–0.759) | 0.714 (0.701–0.727) | 0.724 (0.710–0.737) |
Upper GI | 0.719 (0.702–0.735) | 0.681 (0.666–0.698) | 0.694 (0.675–0.709) |
Head and Neck | 0.696 (0.678–0.716) | 0.668 (0.651–0.688) | 0.673 (0.653–0.694) |
Renal | 0.668 (0.645–0.687) | 0.628 (0.606–0.649) | 0.622 (0.599–0.643) |
Pancreatic | 0.665 (0.644–0.684) | 0.588 (0.562–0.611) | 0.616 (0.594–0.639) |
Colorectal | 0.645 (0.636–0.655) | 0.608 (0.599–0.618) | 0.632 (0.623–0.642) |
Hematological | 0.633 (0.624–0.644) | 0.610 (0.599–0.621) | 0.605 (0.594–0.616) |
Biliary | 0.618 (0.578–0.660) | 0.531 (0.500–0.565) | 0.594 (0.562–0.625) |
Melanoma | 0.593 (0.579–0.606) | 0.563 (0.550–0.575) | 0.573 (0.558–0.587) |
Glioblastoma | 0.593 (0.571–0.617) | 0.562 (0.538–0.588) | 0.549 (0.523–0.569) |
Any | 0.589 (0.585—0.592) | 0.584 (0.580—0.587) | 0.573 (0.569—0.576) |
Thyroid | 0.584 (0.538–0.621) | 0.573 (0.532–0.613) | 0.544 (0.498–0.580) |
