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. 2025 Jan 6;11:2. doi: 10.1038/s41405-024-00284-7

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 (%)
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.