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 |
Negative class prediction