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. 2021 Oct 27;12:763897. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2021.763897

Table 3.

Diagnostic performance of 5 guidelines.

Method Cut-off Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) PPV (%) NPV (%) Accuracy (%) AUC
ACR-TIRADS
5 73.9
(69.4-78.1)
70.5
(67.0-73.9)
60.4
(57.2- 63.4)
81.7
(79.09-84.1)
71.8
(69.0- 74.5)
0.763
(0.736-0.791)
P value 0.012a <0.001a 0.007a 0.439a 0.029a <0.001a;0.004b;0.305c
Kwak-TIRADS 4C 89.9
(86.5- 92.6)
62.0
(58.3- 65.7)
58.9
(56.5- 61.3)
91.0
(88.3- 93.1)
72.5
(69.8-75.2)
0.789
(0.763-0.815)
P value <0.001a <0.001a 0.001a <0.001a 0.071a <0.001a
EU-TIRADS 5 88.2
(84.7- 91.1)
55.4
(51.6- 59.2)
54.6
(52.3-56.8)
88.5
(85.5- 91.0)
67.8
(64.9- 70.6)
0.734
(0.705-0.763)
P value <0.001a <0.001a <0.001a <0.001a <0.001a <0.001a;<0.001b;<0.001c;<0.001d
KTA/KSThR-TIRADS 5 81.6
(77.6- 85.3)
66.7
(63.0-70.3)
59.8
(57.0- 62.6)
85.7
(82.9- 88.1)
72.4
(69.6- 75.0)
0.773
(0.746-0.800)
P value <0.001a <0.001a 0.037a 0.708a 0.043a <0.001a;0.014b
C-TIRADS 4C 75.7
(70.9- 80.3)
82.3
(79.2- 85.1)
69.2
(65.3-72.8)
79.8
(77.45-81.9)
76.0
(73.4-78.5)
0.816
(0.791-0.841)

95% confidence intervals are in parentheses; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value; AUC, area under the receiving operator characteristics curve; P value, aCompared with C-TIRADS; bCompared with Kwak-TIRADS; cCompared with KTA/KSThR-TIRADS; dCompared with ACR-TIRADS.