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Table 5 The performance of nomogram, radiologists without and with nomogram assistance in the external test cohort

From: Predicting lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma: radiomics using two types of ultrasound elastography

 

Nomogram

R1

p-value

(R1 vs. nomogram)

R1 with nomogram

p-value

(R1 vs. R1 with nomogram)

R2

p-value

(R2 vs. nomogram)

R2 with nomogram

p-value

(R2 vs. R2 with nomogram)

ACC (%)

77.5 (134/173)

58.4 (101/173)

< 0.001

69.4 (120/173)

< 0.001

65.9 (114/173)

0.032

74.0 (128/173)

0.001

SENS (%)

78.9 (56/71)

50.7 (36/71)

0.001

70.4 (50/71)

0.001

59.2 (42/71)

0.022

77.5 (55/71)

< 0.001

SPEC (%)

76.5 (78/102)

63.7 (65/102)

0.049

68.6 (70/102)

0.074

70.6 (72/102)

0.461

72.5 (74/102)

0.480

  1. Abbreviations: ACC, accuracy; R1, junior radiologist; R2, senior radiologist; SENS, sensitivity; SPEC specificity