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Table 2 Performance of MPD, TPW, OPW, Internal height and Isthmus height for evaluating acceptable and unacceptable screws

From: C2 pedicle screw placement on 3D-printed models for the performance assessment of CTA-based screw preclusion

Parameter

MPD

TPW

OPW

Internal height

Isthmus height

AUC

0.992

0.949†

0.969

0.885†

0.941†

95% CI

0.985, 0.999

0.907, 0.990

0.944, 0.994

0.834, 0.936

0.909, 0.974

Sensitivity (%)

95.1 (252/265)

87.9 (233/265)†

95.5 (253/265)

80.8 (214/265)†

87.2 (231/265)†

Specificity (%)

100.0 (39/39)

94.9 (37/39)

87.2 (34/39)†

84.6 (33/39)†

92.3 (36/39)

PPV (%)

100.0 (252/252)

99.1 (233/235)

98.1 (253/258)

97.3 (214/220)

98.7 (231/234)

NPV (%)

75.0 (39/52)

53.6 (37/69)

73.9 (34/46)

39.3 (33/84)

51.4 (36/70)

Youden index J

0.951

0.828

0.826

0.885

0.79

Criterion (mm)

4.78

4.44

4.37

4.22

5.59

  1. Except were indicated, numbers in parentheses are numbers of screws. AUC  area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, NPV  negative predictive value, PPV  positive predictive value
  2. †Data are for comparison with MPD (P < 0.05)