Table 7.

Sensitivities, specificities, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV) of the four methods with 95% confidence interval at the pre-determined thresholds.

	> 2.3 SUVmax	> 0.3 SUVRpit	> 3 SUVRsss	> 62.6 SUVRnorm
Sensitivity	98.2% (94.8–99.5)	79.5% (72.7–85.0)	86.7% (80.8–91.1)	80.6% (73.9–85.9)
Specificity	56.1% (41.0–70.1)	87.8% (74.5–94.7)	80.5% (66.0–89.8)	70.7% (55.5–82.4)
PPV	90.1% (84.8–93.6)	96.4% (91.7–98.4)	94.7% (90.0–97.3)	91.7% (86.1–95.2)
NPV	88.5% (71.0–96.0)	51.4% (40.0–62.8)	60.0% (46.8–71.9)	47.5% (35.5–59.8)
Prevalence	80.2% (166/207)	80.2% (166/207)	80.2% (166/207)	80.2% (166/207)