Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Pathway Signatures for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Identified via Subject-Stratified Random Forest Based on the Longitudinal HMP2 Cohort
Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is characterised by severe intestinal microbial dysbiosis. Most machine learning diagnostic models built on the longitudinal HMP2 cohort suffer serious data leakage from random sample-level cross-validation splitting, which leads to artificially inflated AUC values. Addition...