Unsupervised features were as powerful as expert-engineered features in distinguishing uric acid sequences from gout vs. leukemia.

The second column gives the performance of an Elastic Net model under cross-validation on the training set. The third column gives the performance on the held-out test set, with 95% confidence intervals determined using the bias-corrected and accelerated bootstrap. The nearly identical overlap of the confidence intervals indicates that the classifiers built from each of the two learned feature layers and the expert-engineered feature set were equally useful in the supervised learning task. Likewise, the 0.04 difference in performance between the baseline model and the other three is both statistically significant and a respectable improvement as supervised models go. AUC: Area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve. CI: 95% Confidence Interval.