Comparison of random forest and support vector machine for prediction of cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cognitive impairments are typical in PD and are indicated by mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) in the early stages or dementia (PDD) in higher stages. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is an instrument commonly used for ascertaining cognitive impairments in PD. This research uses the clinical, neuroimaging, and CSF data as a predictor variable and the MoCA score as the target variable representing cognitive impairments. Machine learning approaches through support vector machine (SVM) and random forest (RF) methods were applied for modeling. The mean absolute error (MAE) and the root mean square error (RMSE) are used to compare the predicted performance values of the method's application. The experimental results showed that both SVM and RF performed well in predicting cognitive impairments in PD patients, indicated by the relatively small MAE value at 0.076 and RMSE at 0.542. This research also discovers that SVM is better than RF in predicting cognitive impairments. Meanwhile, RF presents an apparent and explicable outcome, which is beneficial for determining important variables that correspond to cognitive impairments. The five measurements with the highest mean decrease accuracy (%IncMSE) are age of onset, phosphorylated tau, α-synuclein (aSyn), mean putamen, and total tau.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".