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Published in final edited form as: Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2014 Jan 28;41(4):596–604. doi: 10.1007/s00259-013-2671-9

Table 3.

FDG PET/CT metrics and cut-off points for predicting lymphoma in HIV-infected patients

Metric Cut-
off
Sensitivity
(%)
Specificity
(%)
PPV
(%)
NPV
(%)
AUC
Single SUL-Max 7.8 89 100 100 92 0.971
TLG 173 89 100 100 92 0.964
Single SUL-Peak 6.6 84 100 100 88 0.964
Glycolytic volume/MTV 53.8 84 100 100 88 0.957
Sum SUL-Peak 23.8 84 95 94 88 0.935
Sum SUL-Max 28.4 84 82 80 86 0.904
Summed CT nodal size 82.6 58 68 61 65 0.671
Single nodal visual score, reader 1 3.5 84 32 52 70 0.581
Sum nodal visual score, reader 1 23.5 53 64 56 61 0.576
Nasopharyngeal region SUL-Max 4.0 42 73 57 59 0.443a
a

Negative class prediction