Advancing accuracy in breath testing for lung cancer: strategies for improving diagnostic precision in imbalanced data.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to patientsThis study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee (No. 201912253RIND) of the National Taiwan University Hospital, and all subjects provided informed consent. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest."

"Funding This study was funded by the National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan (Grant numbers MOST 109-2314-B-002-166-MY3 and NSTC 112-2314-B-002-101) and the Population Health Research Center from the Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE) of Taiwan (grant number NTU-112L9004) provided to the corresponding author. The funding bodies had no role in the design or execution of these studies beyond financial support."