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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Sep 9;224(3):288.e1–288.e17. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2020.09.002

TABLE 3.

Comparison of AUCs and sensitivity at fixed specificity between customized and noncustomized cervical length screening

Gestational age
at measurement (wk)
Number of pregnancies with a scan
in this interval (% of sPTB cases)
AUC
Sensitivity at 10% FPR
Noncustomized Customized Pvalue Noncustomized
Customized
Pvalue
Cutoff (mm) Sensitivity Cutoff (percentile) Sensitivity
20–23 6/7 4169 (12.0%) 71% 72% .001 28 40% 15 50% <.001
24–27 6/7 4338 (11.7%) 71% 72% <.001 25 36% 14 50% <.001
28–31 6/7 4209 (10.7%) 70% 72% <.001 21 33% 16 53% <.001
32–35 6/7 3956 (7.5%) 67% 71% <.001 18 29% 21 54% <.001

AUC, area under the ROC curve; FPR, false positive rate; ROC, receiver operating characteristic; sPTB, spontaneous preterm birth.