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. 2021 Aug 25;13(8):e17432. doi: 10.7759/cureus.17432

Table 2. Performance of considered statistical measures in classifying COVID-19 cases.

COVID-19 - Coronavirus disease 2019; EMD - Earth Mover’s distance; KS - Kolmogorov-Smirnov; HUs - Hounsfield units.

  Mean HUs Median HUs Proportion above Mean HUs Skewness EMD KS distance
True positive 54/62 49/62 46/62 57/62 45/62 33/62
True negatives 17/18 16/18 14/18 15/18 14/18 13/18
Sensitivity 0.871 0.790 0.742 0.919 0.726 0.532
Specificity 0.944 0.889 0.778 0.833 0.778 0.722
Positive predictive value 0.982 0.961 0.920 0.950 0.918 0.868
Negative predictive value 0.680 0.552 0.467 0.750 0.452 0.310
Accuracy 0.888 0.813 0.750 0.900 0.738 0.575