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Table 2 Comparison of LNM predictions in different cohorts using the MMD-DL model

From: Cervical lymph node metastasis prediction from papillary thyroid carcinoma US videos: a prospective multicenter study

Cohorts

AUC

Accuracy

Sensitivity

Specificity

PPV

NPV

Pre-training

(n = 488)

0.91

[0.89, 0.94]

85 (351/412) [81, 88]

83 (180/216) [78, 88]

87 (171/196) [82, 92]

88 (180/205) [83, 91]

83 (171/207) [78, 87]

Training

(n = 109)

0.85

[0.78, 0.92]

74 (81/109) [65, 82]

72 (36/50) [57, 83]

76 (45/59) [63, 86]

72 (36/50) [57, 83]

76 (45/59) [63, 86]

Test

(n = 39)

0.85

[0.73, 0.97]

80 (31/39) [64, 91]

63 (12/19) [39, 83]

95 (19/20) [73, 99]

92 (12/13) [62, 99]

73 (19/26) [52, 88]

Validation

(n = 70)

0.81

[0.73, 0.89]

80 (56/70) [69, 89]

69 (22/32) [50, 84]

89 (34/38) [75, 97]

85 (22/26) [68, 93]

77 (34/44) [69, 89]

 Hospital 1

(n = 23)

0.78

[0.57, 0.99]

83 (19/23) [61, 95]

89 (8/9) [51, 99]

79 (11/14) [49, 94]

73 (8/11) [39, 93]

92 (11/12) [60, 99]

 Hospital 2

(n = 28)

0.77

[0.59, 0.95]

79 (22/28) [54, 94]

89 (8/9) [51, 99]

74 (14/19) [51, 99]

62 (8/13) [32, 85]

93 (14/15) [66, 100]

 Hospital 3

(n = 19)

0.84

[0.67, 1.00]

79 (15/19) [59, 92]

60 (6/10) [27, 86]

100 (9/9) [63, 100]

100 (6/6) [52, 100]

70 (9/13) [39, 90]

  1. Unless otherwise specified, data are percentages, with the number of patients in parentheses and 95% confidence intervals in brackets. AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value