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. 2024 Mar 18;36(1):74. doi: 10.1007/s40520-024-02728-4

Table 2.

Results of the REMS accuracy evaluations for each considered anatomical site. In all the calculations, DXA results obtained for the retained patients after the exclusion of medical reports containing errors were assumed as the reference ground truth

Anatomical site Lumbar spine Femoral neck
Retained cases (n) 508 512
Sensitivity 90.1% 90.9%
Specificity 93.6% 94.6%
Diagnostic concordance 82.7% 81.8%
K 0.71* 0.71*
r 0.91* 0.90*
r 2 0.83* 0.82*
Regression line slope 0.90 0.90
SEE (g/cm2) 0.045 0.031
Average difference (bias ± 1.96 SD, g/cm2) −0.06 ± 0.60 −0.07 ± 0.44

*p < 0.0001