Research Article

MR-Based Radiomics for Differential Diagnosis between Cystic Pituitary Adenoma and Rathke Cleft Cyst

Table 3

Comparison of diagnostic performance of the semantic model, multiparametric model, and combined radiomics and semantic model using ANN classifier in the training and test set.

Training setAUCSensitivitySpecificityAccuracyPPVNPV
Semantic model0.902 [86.3, 94.1]0.756 [66.3, 84.9]0.933 [88.2, 98.5]0.849 [79.5, 90.2]0.912 [84.4, 97.9]0.808 [73.2, 88.3]
Multiparametric model0.89 [85.1, 92.9]0.793 [70.5, 88.0]0.844 [77.0, 91.9]0.820 [76.2, 87.7]0.823 [73.9, 90.7]0.817 [73.9, 89.6]
Combined radiomics and semantic model0.924 [88.5, 96.3]0.866 [79.2, 94.0]0.844 [77.0, 91.9]0.855 [80.2, 90.7]0.835 [75.6, 91.4]0.874 [80.4, 94.3]

Test setAUCSensitivitySpecificityAccuracyPPVNPV
Semantic model0.823 [70.5, 94.1]0.783 [61.4, 95.1]0.850 [69.4, 100.0]0.814 [69.8, 93.0]0.857 [70.7, 100.0]0.773 [59.8, 94.8]
Multiparametric model0.792 [67.4, 91.0]0.522 [31.8, 72.6]0.900 [76.9, 100.0]0.698 [56.0, 83.5]0.857 [67.4, 100.0]0.621 [44.4, 79.7]
Combined radiomics and semantic model0.848 [75.0, 94.6]0.739 [56.0, 91.9]0.800 [62.5, 97.5]0.767 [64.1, 89.4]0.810 [64.2, 97.7]0.727 [54.1, 91.3]

Note: data in parentheses are 95% confidence intervals. PPV: positive predict value; NPV: negative predict value.