From: Identification of a small optimal subset of CpG sites as bio-markers from high-throughput DNA methylation profiles
Method
N*
Sensitivity (%)
Specificity (%)
Accuracy (%)
Run Time
SVM_RFE
3.6
95.0
85.0
89.9
5.1 days
FW_SVM with PCA
2.6
89.1
94.3
91.7
8.7 minutes
FW_SVM with individual feature ranking
2.2
87.4
94.1
90.8
8.4 minutes