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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nucl Med Commun. 2016 Dec;37(12):1290–1296. doi: 10.1097/MNM.0000000000000592

Table 4.

ROC analysis of Thyroid Incidentalomas

Negative (n = 66) Average Value Positive (n = 32) Average Value p-value Cut Off Value Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV AUC
Thyroid lesion SUVmax 3.4 ± 2.3 7.9 ± 6.6 <0.001 3.9 0.75 0.74 0.59 0.86 0.78
Ratio 2.1 ± 1.5 4.7 ± 4.6 <0.001 2.0 0.88 0.76 0.64 0.93 0.82
Ratio 1.7 ± 1.1 4.1 ± 3.2 <0.001 1.9 0.78 0.74 0.60 0.88 0.78
Ratio 1.4 ± 1.0 3.2 ± 2.8 <0.001 1.5 0.81 0.71 0.58 0.89 0.78