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. 2021 Sep 27;11:19094. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-98695-1

Table 1.

Sensitivity, specificity (the optimum cut-off point for the maximum value of Youden's index), areas under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) in simultaneous measurements on the platform posturography (P) and the inertial sensor (M) attached to the lumbar L4.

Condition Measurement method AUC p Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV Cut off point
Head shaking posturography 0.3 Hz
1st P 0.68 <.001 76 60 53 81 0.3
M 0.64 0.01 92 43 49 90 0.3
2nd P 0.73 <.001 55 80 62 75 0.4
M 0.64 0.01 50 80 60 73 0.5
3rd P 0.82 <.001 66 82 68 80 0.7
M 0.82 <.001 74 82 70 84 0.7
4th P 0.94 <.001 84 95 91 91 1.9
M 0.95 <.001 87 96 92 93 1.5
Head shaking posturography 0.6 Hz
1st P 0.72 <.001 55 79 60 75 0.3
M 0.70 <.001 58 79 61 76 0.4
2nd P 0.78 <.001 63 86 73 80 0.4
M 0.68 0.001 66 74 60 79 0.4
3rd P 0.85 <.001 71 88 77 84 0.8
M 0.87 <.001 74 92 85 86 0.8
4th P 0.92 <.001 95 77 70 96 1.5
M 0.92 <.001 82 88 80 89 1.3

Conditions: 1st (eyes open/stable surface), 2nd (eyes closed/stable surface), 3rd (eyes open/foam), 4th (eyes closed/foam).

The most significant results are in bold.

P platform posturography, M MediPost (IMU), AUC area under curve, PPV positive predictive value, NPV negative predictive value.