Table 5.

Comparison of metabolic metrics and SULTAN for per-patient analysis according to optimized thresholds.

Metrics	SUVmax	SUVpeak	SUVmean	SAM	MV	TLG	SULTAN
Threshold (%)	−36	−26	−29	−54	−58	−27
Sensitivity (%)	75	72	67	39	8	53	83
Specificity (%)	98	98	95	98	100	100	88
PPV (%)	96	96	92	93	100	100	86
NPV (%)	82	81	77	66	57	72	86
Accuracy (%)	87	86	82	71	58	78	86%
Youden correlation coefficient	0.73	0.70	0.62	0.37	0.08	0.53	0.72
Significance (χ2 p < 0.05)	S	S	S	NS	NS	S	S