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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Lang. 2015 Feb 3;142:45–53. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.01.009

Table 2.

Area under the ROC curve analysis for the significant clinical and imaging variables

AUROC Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) PPV (%)
Clinical variables
Action fluency 0.76 83 60 38
VOSP Cube Analysis 0.77 67 80 50
MRI volumes
Right lateral temporal 0.92 83 100 100
Right lateral parietal 0.88 83 90 71
Right lateral frontal 0.88 100 65 46
FDG uptake values
Left hippocampus 0.83 83 95 83
Left temporal pole 0.86 83 95 83
Left medial frontal 0.80 100 50 38
Right lateral temporal 0.90 67 100 100
Right lateral parietal 0.82 67 90 67
Right lateral frontal 0.78 67 95 80
MRI asymmetry scores
Hippocampus 0.84 83 100 100
Lateral temporal 0.86 83 90 71
Temporal pole 0.88 83 90 71
FDG asymmetry scores
Hippocampus 0.84 83 100 100
Lateral temporal 0.82 83 90 71
Temporal pole 0.89 83 95 83
Medial frontal 0.84 67 100 100
DTI asymmetry scores
IFO FA 0.79 83 79 56
IFO MD 0.78 67 100 100

IFO = inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus; FA= fractional anisotropy; MD = mean diffusivity Values shown to optimize accuracy to diagnose PiB-negative patients (optimum defined as the greatest sens – (1-spec)).