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Table 4 Detection results of suspicious lymph nodes and patients

From: Deep learning-based fully automated detection and segmentation of pelvic lymph nodes on diffusion-weighted images for prostate cancer: a multicenter study

 

Internal test dataset

External validation dataset

 

Suscipious LNs

Suscipious Patients

Suscipious LNs

Suscipious Patients

No. of TP

491

97

858

262

No. of FP

124

2

226

19

No. of FN

246

12

569

61

No. of TN

NA

5

NA

59

PPV (95%CI)

79.8% (76.5%, 82.8%)

98.0% (92.9%, 99.4%)

79.2% (76.6%, 81.5%)

93.2% (89.7%, 95.6%)

Sensitivity (95% CI)

66.6% (63.1%, 69.9%)

89.0% (81.7%, 93.6%)

60.1% (57.6%, 62.6%)

81.1% (76.5%, 85.0%)

Specificity (95% CI)

NA

71.4% (35.9%, 91.8%)

NA

75.6% (65.1%, 83.8%)

FP/vol

1.07

-

0.56

-

  1. LNs lymph nodes, TP true positive, FP false positive, FN false negative, PPV positive predictive value, CI Confidence Interval, FP/vol per-patient false-positive rate