Table 3. Areas under the ROC curves, diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, and the optimal thresholds for mean susceptibility and the proportion of voxels with susceptibility values lower than 60, 65, 70, 75, and 80 ppb.
Area under the ROC curve | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | Optimal threshold | p* | |
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Mean susceptibility | 0.932 (0.839–0.980) | 86.84 | 84.00 | 109.25 ppb | Reference |
Proportion of voxels <60 ppb | 0.995 (0.933–1.000) | 100 | 96 | 0.63% | 0.0249 |
Proportion of voxels <65 ppb | 0.999 (0.941–1.000) | 100 | 97.37 | 0.88% | 0.0192 |
Proportion of voxels <70 ppb | 1.000 (0.943–1.000) | 100 | 100 | 1.9% | 0.0183 |
Proportion of voxels <75 ppb | 0.999 (0.941–1.000) | 97.37 | 100 | 2.32% | 0.0191 |
Proportion of voxels <80 ppb | 0.999 (0.941–1.000) | 97.37 | 100 | 6.1% | 0.0186 |
Data are median and 95% confidence-interval values.
*Pairwise comparisons of ROC curves with that for the mean susceptibility.
ROC: receiver operating characteristics.