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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg. 2021 May 13:S0002-9610(21)00280-4. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.05.001

Table 2:

Performance accuracy of PTeye® in label-free intraoperative parathyroid gland identification in the blinded multi-centric study.

Number of parathyroid glands tested Number of non-parathyroid sites* tested Sensitivity Specificity Positive Predictive Value Negative Predictive Value False Negative Rate False Positive Rate Accuracy kappa (k)
Site 1 90 405 90.0% 87.2% 60.9% 97.5% 10.0% 12.8% 87.7% 0.65
Site 2 85 404 96.5% 93.8% 77.4% 99.2% 3.5% 6.2% 94.3% 0.82
Site 3 211 553 97.6% 93.9% 86.5% 99.0% 2.4% 6.1% 94.9% 0.88
Overall 386 1362 95.6% 91.9% 76.9% 98.7% 4.4% 8.1% 92.7% 0.8
*

- Non-parathyroid sites included thyroid glands, fat, muscle, trachea, thymic tissue, lymph nodes and fibro-adipose tissues.