Table 3:

Model accuracy—accuracy for random forest models trained on conventional (anatomic imaging) and conventional-plus-advanced (diffusion, perfusion, permeability) imaginga

MetricVariablesConventionalConventional-Plus-Advanced
AccuracyAll Variables0.9040.952
RF Rank0.8750.933
RF (fixed variables)0.885 (T2, T1C, FLAIR, T1)0.962 (T2, ADC, CBV, Ktrans)
κAll Variables0.8220.912
RF Rank0.7680.877
RF (fixed variables)0.7880.930
  • Note:—RF indicates random forest.

  • a Performance using all 23 variables is compared with the performance averaged over 5 folds of cross-validation as well as the results using a fixed-variable subset. The Cohen κ is larger for more accurate models but is scaled so that a no-information classifier would have κ equal to zero.