Table 6.

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

Metrics	SULTAN	SUVmax		SUVpeak		SUVmean
		−30% PERCIST	−36%	−30% PERCIST	−26%	−30% PERCIST	−29%
Sensitivity (%)	83	75	75	67	72	67	67
Specificity (%)	88	95	98	98	98	95	95
PPV (%)	86	93	96	96	96	92	92
NPV (%)	86	82	82	78	81	77	77
Accuracy (%)	86	86	87	84	86	82	82
Youden correlation coefficient	0.72	0.70	0.73	0.64	0.70	0.62	0.62
Significance (χ2 p < 0.05)	S	S	S	S	S	S	S