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Predicting malignancy of pulmonary ground-glass nodules and their invasiveness by random forest

Xueyan Mei, Rui Wang, Wenjia Yang, Fangfei Qian, Xiaodan Ye, Li Zhu, Qunhui Chen, Baohui Han, Timothy Deyer, Jingyi Zeng, Xiaomeng Dong, Wen Gao, Wentao Fang

Abstract

Background: The purpose of this study was to develop a predictive model that could accurately predict the malignancy of the pulmonary ground-glass nodules (GGNs) and the invasiveness of the malignant GGNs.
Methods: The authors built two binary classification models that could predict the malignancy of the pulmonary GGNs and the invasiveness of the malignant GGNs
Results: Results of our developed model showed random forest could achieve 95.1% accuracy to predict the malignancy of GGNs and 83.0% accuracy to predict the invasiveness of the malignant GGNs.
Conclusions: The malignancy and invasiveness of pulmonary GGNs could be predicted by random forest.

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