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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Exp Optom. 2018 Mar 13;101(4):578–584. doi: 10.1111/cxo.12661

Table 2.

Test results found to have the greatest area under the curve in ROC analysis

Measure Clinical test

Test Rank 1 2 3
Screening for 2–3 sign CI
  Test MT phoria (Δ) NPC break (cm) NPC recovery (cm)
AUC (p-value) 0.795 (< 0.001) 0.766 (< 0.001) 0.744 (< 0.001)
Cutpoint ≥ 3 exo ≥ 6.0 ≥ 8.5
Sensitivity 0.625 0.804 0.750
Specificity 0.858 0.690 0.664

Screening for 3 sign CI
  Test PFV / Phoria PFV blur (Δ) NPC break (cm)
AUC (p-value) 0.938 (< 0.001) 0.863 (< 0.001) 0.853 (< 0.001)
Cutpoint ≤ 1.90 < 14 ≥ 6.0
Sensitivity 0.889 0.778 1.000
Specificity 0.908 0.837 0.633

Screening for symptomatic 2–3 sign CI
  Test CISS NPC break (cm) NPC recovery (cm)
AUC (p-value) 0.823 (< 0.001) 0.781 (< 0.001] 0.777 (< 0.001)
Cutpoint ≥ 16 ≥ 7.5 ≥ 9.0
Sensitivity 1.000 0.679 0.750
Specificity 0.638 0.783 0.669

Screening for symptomatic 3 sign CI
  Test AA (D) PFV / Phoria NPC break (cm)
AUC (p-value) 0.937 (< 0.001) 0.925 (< 0.001) 0.916 (< 0.001)
Cutpoint ≤ 10.0 ≤ 1.9 ≥ 9.5
Sensitivity 1.000 0.833 0.833
Specificity 0.800 0.886 0.859

Screening for symptomatic 2–3 sign CI with accommodative dysfunction
  Test NPC break (cm) NPC recovery (cm) CISS
AUC (p-value) 0.915 (< 0.001) 0.895 (< 0.001) 0.850 (< 0.001)
Cutpoint ≥ 7.5 ≥ 10.0 ≥ 16
Sensitivity 0.941 0.941 1.000
Specificity 0.780 0.731 0.614

AUC = Area under ROC curve; MT = Modified Thorington; NPC = Near Point of Convergence; PFV = Positive Fusional Vergence; AA = Accommodative amplitude; CISS = Convergence Insufficiency Symptom Survey score