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Table 2 Performance of machine learning model and two experienced musculoskeletal (MSK) radiologists in distinguishing IM lipomas from atypical lipomatous tumors or well-differentiated liposarcomas

From: Tumor-to-bone distance and radiomic features on MRI distinguish intramuscular lipomas from well-differentiated liposarcomas

 

AUC (95% CI)

Sensitivity (95% CI)

Specificity (95% CI)

Accuracy (95% CI)

P value*

Machine learning model

0.88 (0.72–1)

91.6 (62.0–100)

85.7 (42.0–100)

89.0 (67.0–98.6)

 

MSK radiologist 1

0.94 (0.87–1)

97.4 (86.0–100)

90.9 (71.0–99.0)

95.0 (86.1–98.9)

0.4

MSK radiologist 2

0.91 (0.83–0.99)

100 (91.0–100)

81.8 (60.0–95.0)

93.3 (83.8–98.1)

0.7

  1. AUC The area under the receiver operator characteristic curve, CI Confidence interval
  2. *P value based on the Delong’s test, which were used to compare the AUCs between the machine learning model and radiologists