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.