Table 4.
Area under the ROC curve, 95% CI, Sensitivity, Specificity, Accuracy, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and Youden’s index of the index assessment methods.
Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | AUC | 95% CI | SE | PPV (%) | NPV (%) | Youden’s Index (J) | Accuracy (%) | ||
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At Enamel Threshold | Visual-tactile (FDI) | 98.82 | 88.73 | 0.940 | 0.890–0.972 | 0.0192 | 91.306 | 98.432 | 0.8771 | 94.27 |
VistaCam | 98.82 | 76.06 | 0.874 | 0.812–0.922 | 0.0262 | 83.177 | 98.175 | 0.7521 | 88.54 | |
DIAGNOdent | 100.00 | 81.69 | 0.898 | 0.839–0.940 | 0.0275 | 86.740 | 100 | 0.8194 | 91.72 | |
At Dentin Threshold | Visual-tactile (FDI) | 57.45 | 98.09 | 0.866 | 0.819–0.912 | 0.0238 | 90.474 | 87.951 | 0.555 | 88.73 |
VistaCam | 8.51 | 100.00 | 0.695 | 0.647–0.743 | 0.0247 | 100.00 | 77.584 | 0.335 | 79.31 | |
DIAGNOdent | 89.36 | 96.82 | 0.951 | 0.912–0.976 | 0.0161 | 89.872 | 96.646 | 0.861 | 95.10 |
AUC Area Under ROC curve, 95% CI 95% confidence interval, SE Standard Error, PPV Positive Predictive Values, NPV Negative Predictive Values.