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. 2010 Feb 9;2009:798283. doi: 10.1155/2009/798283

Table 4.

The area under the ROC curve, optimum sensitivity and specificity and corresponding ICDAS-II threshold used, for each examiner at D 1 and D 3 diagnostic threshold.

Examiner 1 Examiner 2 Examiner 3 Examiner 4

All data Randomised All data Randomised All data Randomised All data Randomised
data data data data
D 1 diagnostic threshold

Opt Sens 0.70 0.68 0.69 0.66 0.57 0.49 0.71 0.71
Opt Spec 0.83 0.90 0.81 0.80 0.78 0.74 0.73 0.80
ICDAS cut-off 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2
AUC (SE) 0.81 (0.04) 0.82 (0.06) 0.80 (0.04) 0.77 (0.07) 0.72 (0.05) 0.67 (0.07) 0.79 (0.04) 0.80 (0.06)
95% CI 0.72–0.89 0.69–0.94 0.72–0.88 0.64–0.89 0.63–0.81 0.53–0.82 0.71–0.87 0.68–0.92
ES for AUC 0.03 0.07 0.08 0.01

D 3 diagnostic threshold

Opt Sens 0.71 0.63 0.60 0.54 0.54 0.42 0.75 0.71
Opt Spec 0.88 0.85 0.87 0.83 0.90 0.89 0.80 0.85
ICDAS cut-off 2-3 2-3 2-3 2-3
AUC (SE) 0.85 (0.03) 0.81 (0.06) 0.84 (0.03) 0.81 (0.05) 0.83 (0.03) 0.78 (0.06) 0.86 (0.03) 0.84 (0.05)
95% CI 0.79–0.92 0.69–0.92 0.78–0.91 0.70–0.92 0.76–0.90 0.66–0.90 0.80–0.92 0.75–0.94
ES for AUC 0.11 0.08 0.15 0.05

AUC: Area under the curve; SE: Standard error; CI: Confidence interval, ES: Effect size.