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Table 2 AUC-ROC values by combination of MLTs, balancing techniques and balancing ratios across 14 systematic reviews

From: Screening PubMed abstracts: is class imbalance always a challenge to machine learning?

MLT

Systematic review

Method for imbalance

None

ROS-35:65

ROS-50:50

RUS-35:65

RUS-50:50

GLMNet

Cavender et al. 2014 [26]

0.9667

1

1

0.9988

1

Chatterjee et al. 2014 [27]

0.9738

0.9667

0.9667

0.9875

0.9963

Douxfils et al. 2014 [23]

0.9667

0.9988

0.9988

1

0.9988

Funakoshi et al 2014 [28]

0.8851

0.9602

0.9799

0.9794

0.9885

Kourbeti et al. 2014 [24]

0.9518

0.9921

0.9991

0.9918

0.9991

Li et al. 2014 [18]

0.9

1

1

0.9975

0.97

Li et al. 2014 [25]

0.8975

0.8975

0.9475

0.99

0.9375

Liu et al. 2014 [22]

0.915

0.98

1

0.9983

0.9975

Lv et al. 2014 [19]

1

1

1

0.9963

0.9963

Meng et al 2014 [16]

1

1

1

1

0.9875

Segelov et al. 2014 [17]

0.9667

1

0.9988

0.995

0.9863

Wang et al. 2015 [20]

0.9667

1

1

0.9988

0.9988

Yang et al. 2014 [15]

0.975

0.975

1

1

1

Zhou at al. 2014 [21]

1

1

1

1

0.98

k-nearest neighbors

Cavender et al. 2014 [26]

1

0.5113

0.5063

0.5013

0.5792

Chatterjee et al. 2014 [27]

0.9988

0.5388

0.5363

0.5063

0.6333

Douxfils et al. 2014 [23]

0.9667

0.5213

0.5113

0.5075

0.5625

Funakoshi et al 2014 [28]

0.9955

0.5005

0.5

0.5

0.5885

Kourbeti et al. 2014 [24]

NA

NA

NA

0.5

0.5661

Li et al. 2014 [18]

0.9775

0.63

0.6125

0.5125

0.7775

Li et al. 2014 [25]

0.7975

0.685

0.59

0.5675

0.71

Liu et al. 2014 [22]

0.9975

0.5017

0.5017

0.5

0.5983

Lv et al. 2014 [19]

1

0.5075

0.505

0.5025

0.6996

Meng et al 2014 [16]

0.9875

0.59

0.57

0.515

0.71

Segelov et al. 2014 [17]

0.9283

0.51

0.5063

0.5

0.5625

Wang et al. 2015 [20]

1

0.5056

0.5056

0.5

0.5237

Yang et al. 2014 [15]

0.9404

0.5288

0.52

0.5025

0.6333

Zhou at al. 2014 [21]

1

0.675

0.6425

0.54

0.71

Random forest

Cavender et al. 2014 [26]

1

1

1

1

1

Chatterjee et al. 2014 [27]

0.9167

0.975

0.975

0.9963

1

Douxfils et al. 2014 [23]

1

1

1

1

1

Funakoshi et al 2014 [28]

0.9184

0.9517

0.9299

0.9895

0.9895

Kourbeti et al. 2014 [24]

0.9918

0.9854

0.9854

0.9988

0.9984

Li et al. 2014 [18]

0.95

1

1

1

1

Li et al. 2014 [25]

0.8

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.9475

Liu et al. 2014 [22]

0.98

0.9992

0.9783

0.9992

0.9992

Lv et al. 2014 [19]

1

1

1

0.9988

0.9988

Meng et al 2014 [16]

0.95

0.95

0.95

1

1

Segelov et al. 2014 [17]

0.9988

0.9988

0.9988

0.9975

0.9963

Wang et al. 2015 [20]

0.9815

0.9821

0.9827

0.9994

0.9975

Yang et al. 2014 [15]

0.95

0.975

0.95

0.9083

0.9046

Zhou at al. 2014 [21]

1

1

1

1

0.995

Support vector machines

Cavender et al. 2014 [26]

1

1

1

1

0.825

Chatterjee et al. 2014 [27]

1

1

0.9988

1

0.9263

Douxfils et al. 2014 [23]

1

1

1

0.9963

0.8338

Funakoshi et al 2014 [28]

0.999

0.999

0.9985

0.9945

0.975

Kourbeti et al. 2014 [24]

0.9927

0.9927

0.9991

0.9988

0.9875

Li et al. 2014 [18]

1

0.9975

0.9975

0.9325

0.5625

Li et al. 2014 [25]

0.85

0.9

0.9925

0.98

0.6775

Liu et al. 2014 [22]

1

1

1

0.9992

0.96

Lv et al. 2014 [19]

1

1

1

0.9988

0.785

Meng et al 2014 [16]

1

1

1

0.99

0.62

Segelov et al. 2014 [17]

0.9333

0.9333

1

0.995

0.8013

Wang et al. 2015 [20]

1

0.9857

1

0.9988

0.9681

Yang et al. 2014 [15]

0.975

0.9417

0.9654

0.995

0.8825

Zhou at al. 2014 [21]

1

1

1

1

0.7425

  1. In italics are the best value(s) by row
  2. AUC-ROC area under the receiver operator characteristic curve, ROS random oversampling, RUS random undersampling, RF random forest, k-NN k-nearest neighbors, SVM support vector machines, GLMNet elastic-net regularized generalized linear model