Research Article

Differentiation of Pituitary Adenoma from Rathke Cleft Cyst: Combining MR Image Features with Texture Features

Table 6

The results of the receiver operating characteristics curve for relationship between MR image feature (signal intensity on the contrast-enhanced image) and texture features from the contrast-enhanced image.

Texture features valueAUCStandard error95% CICutoff pointSensitivitySpecificity

Contrast-enhanced image
 Histo-Skewness<0.00010.850.0500.768∼0.9111.00593.3372.73
 GLCM-Correlation<0.00010.740.0590.649∼0.8220.45085.3368.75

Histo, histogram-based matrix; GLCM, grey-level co-occurrence matrix; AUC, area under the curve; CI, confidence interval.