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. 2017 May 11;58(2):491–505. doi: 10.3233/JAD-170164

Table 2.

Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) and area under the curve (AUC) analysis of amyloid-β (Aβ), thioflavin-S (Th-S), and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) associated pathology in the orbitofrontal cortex in predicting confirmed neuropathological diagnosis (gold standard)

Plaque Burden AUC % Area with Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%)
pathology cut-off
0.98±0.02 10.5 100.0 85.7
Th-S 0.99±0.01 0.5 100.0 92.9
BChE 1.00±0.00 5.8 100.0 100.0