Table 3 Efficacy comparison of radiomics, existing indicators, and nomogram

From: Unraveling the power of radiomics: prediction and exploration of lymph node metastasis in stage T1/2 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Group

Indicators

LNMr

PNI

Radscore

LNMr+PNI

Nomogram

Training set

AUC

0.793

0.710

0.933

0.838

0.960

Sensitivity

0.776

0.658

0.862

0.793

0.948

Specificity

0.812

0.724

0.949

0.795

0.872

Accuracy

0.776

0.670

0.913

0.772

0.879

Validation set

AUC

0.787

0.700

0.887

0.828

0.937

Sensitivity

0.794

0.648

0.804

0.755

0.921

Specificity

0.775

0.755

0.924

0.841

0.836

Accuracy

0.741

0.684

0.876

0.774

0.855

Test set

AUC

0.779

0.688

0.845

0.817

0.928

Sensitivity

0.765

0.799

0.941

0.706

0.882

Specificity

0.811

0.512

0.787

0.899

0.899

Accuracy

0.776

0.705

0.800

0.808

0.861

  1. LNMr radiologically diagnosed lymph node metastasis, PNI prognostic nutritional index, AUC area under the curve.