Table 3: Feature selected and identified metabolites in blood plasma samples of high and low-grade Gleason PCa using different multivariate models.

Feature selection methods

Random forest

PLS-DA

OPLS-DA

OL

 

 

 

Metabolites panels

Phosphocreatine

Histidine

Histidine

Phosphocreatine

Choline

Choline

Choline

Choline

Histidine

Phosphocreatine

Phosphocreatine

Histidine

Lactate

Lactate

Lactate

Lactate

Valine

Tyrosine

Tyrosine

Tyrosine

Creatine

Alanine

Glucose

 

Tyrosine

Glutamate

Betaine

 

Taurine

 Betaine

Taurine

 

Alanine

Taurine

 Alanine

 

Glucose

 Phenylalanine

 Isoleucine

 

PLS-DA: Partial Least Squares Regression Discriminant Analysis; OPLS-DA: Orthogonal Partial Least Squares Regression Discriminant Analysis; OL: Overlapping Set Panel; Random Forest Features Ranked by Their Contributions to Classification Accuracy (Mean Decrease Accuracy)