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. 2016 Aug 28;8(8):729–734. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v8.i8.729

Table 2.

Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve values before and following disclosure of the computer-aided diagnosis data for the different raters

Rater SPNs AUC blinded AUC unfolded Difference Significance
95%CI 95%CI
BIMC 94 0.845 - - -
0.755-0.911
Rater 1 94 0.734 0.769 0.035 P = 0.3329
0.633-0.820 0.671-0.850
Rater 2 94 0.788 0.820 0.032 P = 0.2170
0.691-0.865 0.727-0.892
Rater 3 94 0.788 0.830 0.042 P = 0.0592
0.692-0.866 0.738-0.899
Rater 4 94 0.739 0.795 0.056 P = 0.0048
0.639-0.825 0.699-0.871
Rater 5 94 0.751 0.815 0.064 P = 0.0300
0.651-0.834 0.721-0.887
Rater 6 94 0.836 0.833 -0.003 P = 0.9308
0.745-0.904 0.742-0.902
Rater 7 94 0.682 0.756 0.074 P = 0.0054
0.578-0.774 0.657-0.839
Overall 658 0.758 0.803 0.045 P = 0.0003
0.723-0.790 0.770-0.833

AUC: Area under the curve; SPNs: Solitary pulmonary nodules; BIMC: Bayesian inference malignancy calculator.