Research Article

Fully Automated Quantification of the Striatal Uptake Ratio of [99mTc]-TRODAT with SPECT Imaging: Evaluation of the Diagnostic Performance in Parkinson’s Disease and the Temporal Regression of Striatal Tracer Uptake

Table 3

The ROC analysis for differentiating the PD patients from the nPD group and its subgroups based on the SRR calculated with our novel method that uses inversely transformed striatal and reference VOIs.

Versus nPD groupVersus healthy controlsVersus essential tremor subjects
CutoffSensitivitySpecificityAccuracyAUCCutoffSensitivitySpecificityAccuracyAUCCutoffSensitivitySpecificityAccuracyAUC

PD group1.7392.190.291.80.941.7693.296.493.40.981.6787.784.887.40.91
 Grou1.7388.190.288.80.911.7690.796.491.80.971.7388.181.886.80.87
 Grou1.7389.090.289.40.931.7590.096.491.40.971.7390.081.888.00.90
 Grou1.6694.391.893.20.961.7297.7100.098.30.991.6694.384.891.70.93
 Grou1.5193.395.194.20.971.6896.7100.097.70.981.4791.797.093.50.97