Fig. 5: Verification of the early diagnostic performance of the MLMRPscore.

The confusion matrix, expression heatmap and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of the MLMRPscore in the SCH cohort (A), CAMS tissue cohort (B), You cohort (C), TCGA-GTEx cohort (D), Li cohort-1 (E), and Li cohort-2 (F). At the bottom of A–F, data are presented as AUC ± 95% CI. ESCC esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, ANT adjacent normal tissues, AUC area under the curve, CI confidence interval, HD healthy donors.