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This study aimed to analyze the accuracy of various tests used for diagnosing CS, including free cortisol measurements in urine, dexamethasone suppression tests (DSTs; 1, 2, and 8 mg), and nocturnal salivary cortisol measurements. The study aimed to identify the most accurate tests using advanced machine learning (ML) techniques.Methods:We performed binary classifications using data from 278 patients with CS and 220 controls without CS. We developed five ML classification models, namely, a generalized linear model, decision tree, random forest, naive Bayes, and support vector machine, and compared them using standard performance metrics. We employed Boruta feature selection to identify the most informative clinical and biochemical predictors.Results:The naive Bayes model achieved the highest predictive performance, with 100% classification accuracy and a kappa value of 1.0000, followed by the random forest and decision tree models, each with 99.01% accuracy. Boruta feature selection ranked as the most informative predictor post 2-mg DST cortisol, followed by midnight cortisol, post 8-mg DST cortisol, urinary free cortisol, and post 1-mg DST cortisol. The decision tree model identified a cohort-specific post 2-mg DST cortisol threshold of approximately 1.78 \u00b5g\/dL for distinguishing CS-positive from CS-negative cases.Conclusions:ML models, particularly naive Bayes, exhibited strong internal performance in distinguishing patients with CS from non-CS controls using routinely assessed biochemical parameters. The prominence of the post 2-mg DST cortisol predictor in the Boruta ranking and decision tree analysis indicates that this variable contributed substantially to the model-based classification in this cohort. However, the identified 1.78 \u00b5g\/dL threshold should be interpreted as a cohort-specific, data-driven finding rather than as a clinical cutoff recommendation, and external validation in larger multicenter cohorts is required before clinical implementation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.31083\/bjhm57289","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,3]],"date-time":"2026-09-03T11:29:22Z","timestamp":1788434962000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Comparison of the Performances of Generalized Linear Model, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Naive Bayes, and Support Vector Machine Models From Machine Learning\u2013Based Classification Algorithms in the Diagnosis of Cushing's Syndrome"],"prefix":"10.31083","volume":"87","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1794-9242","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Mustafa","family":"\u00c7ak\u0131r","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Iskenderun Vocational School of Higher Education, Iskenderun Technical University, 31200 Iskenderun, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5145-0920","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Mustafa","family":"Aydemir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine, 07058 Antalya, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6302-4574","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Okan","family":"Oral","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Machine Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Akdeniz University, 07058 Antalya, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8799-3452","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Mesut","family":"Y\u0131lmaz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Fisheries, Akdeniz University, 07058 Antalya, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"16242","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Wagner-Bartak NA, Baiomy A, Habra MA, Mukhi SV, Morani AC, Korivi BR, et al. 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