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Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2013 Jan 8;183(1):258–269. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.12.017

Table 1.

Classification performance

Cancer Type	Patients	Total LNs	Metastatic LNs	Benign LNs	Area Under the ROC Curve	95% Confidence Interval	Effective QUS Estimates	Sensitivity	Specificity
Colorectal	77	146	23	123	0.952 ±0.021	0.911 to 0.993	4 (Scatterer size, Nakagami α, Quantile-quantile Sa, Quantile-quantile Cy)	100.00%	67.50%
Colorectal	77	146	23	123	0.952 ±0.021	0.911 to 0.993		91.30%	87.00%
Gastric	12	26	5	21	0.962 ±0.039	0.807 to 1.000	3 (Scatterer size, Intercept, Homodyned-K k)	100.00%	95.30%
Breast	71	118	17	101	0.833 ±0.047	0.741 to 0.926	4 (Scatterer size, Slope, Quantile-quantile Cy, Homodyned-K μ)	100.00%	50.50%
Breast	71	118	17	101	0.833 ±0.047	0.741 to 0.926		88.20%	62.50%