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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ophthalmol. 2020 Jan 8;213:34–45. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2019.12.021

Table 3:

Discrimination powers calculated as the area under the curve (AUC) and pair-wise comparisons

MSON vs. HC AUC (P Value) RVD SVD DVD 4 Layers RNFL+GCIPL INL+OPL VVDr VVDs VVDd
RVD 0.54 (P= .477)
SVD 0.50 (P= .972) P= .133
DVD 0.63 (P= .006) P= .009 P= .001
4 Layers 0.87 (P< .001) P< .001 P< .001 P< .001
RNFL+GCIPL 0.87 (P< .001) P< .001 P< .001 P< .001 P= .972
INL+OPL 0.71 (P< .001) P= .005 P= .001 P= .237 P< .001 P= .001
VVDr 0.87 (P<.001) P< .001 P< .001 P< .001 P= .400 P= .841 P< .001
VVDs 0.84 (P< .001) P< .001 P< .001 P< .001 P=.113 P= .001 P= .004 P= .072
VVDd 0.76 (P< .001) P= .001 P< .001 P= .057 P= .002 P= .011 P< .001 P= .001 P= .051
Multivariatea 0.94 (P< .001) P< .001 P< .001 P< .001 P= .002 P= .003 P< .001 P= .002 P= .001 P< .001
MSNON vs. HC AUC (P Value) RVD SVD DVD 4 Layers RNFL+GCIPL INL+OPL VVDr VVDs VVDd
RVD 0.59 (P= .007)
SVD 0.58 (P= .015) P= .419
DVD 0.54 (P= .282) P= .054 P= .127
4 Layers 0.61 (P= .001) P= .641 P= .510 P= .134
RNFL+GCIPL 0.61 (P= .001) P= .681 P= .545 P= .161 P= .868
INL+OPL 0.59 (P= .007) P= .945 P= .795 P= .238 P= .328 P= .603
VVDr 0.61 (P= .001) P= .557 P= .429 P= .100 P= .169 P= .649 P= .222
VVDs 0.58 (P= .018) P= .874 P= .975 P= .377 P= .061 P< .001 P= .733 P= .027
VVDd 0.65 (P< .001) P= .189 P= .129 P= .011 P= .072 P= .225 P< .001 P= .112 P= .036
Multivariateb 0.89 (P< .001) P< .001 P< .001 P< .001 P< .001 P< .001 P< .001 P< .001 P< .001 P< .001
MSON vs. MSNON AUC (P Value) RVD SVD DVD 4 Layers RNFL+GCIPL INL+OPL VVDr VVDs VVDd
RVD 0.63 (P= .015)
SVD 0.59 (P= .085) P= .147
DVD 0.67 (P= .001) P= .312 P= .063
+4 Layers 0.78 (P< .001) P= .011 P= .003 P= .082
RNFL+GCIPL 0.80 (P< .001) P= .003 P= .001 P= .028 P= .169
INL+OPL 0.62 (P= .023) P= .889 P= .697 P= .489 P< .001 P< .001
VVDr 0.78 (P< .001) P= .016 P= .005 P= .097 P= .506 P= .132 P< .001
VVDs 0.79 (P< .001) P= .009 P= .003 P= .061 P= .484 P= .071 P= .001 P= .380
VVDd 0.62 (P= .027) P= .836 P= .762 P= .456 P< .001 P< .001 P= .384 P< .001 P= .001
Multivariatec 0.81 (P< .001) P< .001 P< .001 P= .002 P= .270 P= .701 P< .001 P= .250 P= .460 P< .001

MSON: multiple sclerosis with a history of optical neuritis; MSNON: multiple sclerosis without a history of optical neuritis; HC: healthy control. RVD: vessel density (Dbox) of retinal vascular network; SVD: vessel density (Dbox) of superficial vascular plexus; DVD: vessel density (Dbox) of deep vascular plexus; RNFL: retinal nerve fiber layer; GCIPL: ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer; INL: inner nuclear layer; OPL: Outer plexiform layer.

a

Multivariate: VVDr, INL+OPL, VVDs, RVD and SVD;

b

Multivariate: VVDd, INL+OPL, DVD, VVDs and VVDr.

c

Multivariate: RNFL+GCIPL and DVD.