Diagnostic Usefulness of Real-Time Elastography for Liver Fibrosis in Chronic Viral Hepatitis B and C

Table 2

Areas under receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves of liver fibrosis index and several serological makers for predicting liver fibrosis stage.

	F ≥ F3			F = F4
	AUC	95% CI	value	AUC	95% CI	value
LFI	0.683	0.596~0.797	0.004	0.744	0.610~0.878	0.002
APRI	0.737	0.627~0.847	0.000	0.694	0.557~0.832	0.014
FIB-4 index	0.702	0.589~0.816	0.002	0.729	0.602~0.856	0.004

AUCs, areas under receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves; CI, confidence interval; LFI, liver fibrosis index; APRI, aspartate aminotransferase/platelet ratio index.