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Table 2 Diagnosis performances of neural network algorithms for the prediction of preterm delivery

From: Preterm labour detection by use of a biophysical marker: the uterine electrical activity

Algorithm

BPM

LM

Placenta insertion

Posterior

Anterior

Posterior

Anterior

Sensitivity (Se)

0.85

0.90

0.82

0.79

Specificity (Sp)

0.93

0.91

0.88

0.87

Negative predictive value (NPV)

0.88

0.92

0.87

0.85

  1. BPM, back propagation with momentum algorithm; LM, Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm.
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