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Table 1 Performance of the proposed SVM method for identifying women with low lumbar spine BMD and femoral neck BMD at a 95% confidence interval (CI)

From: Diagnosis of osteoporosis from dental panoramic radiographs using the support vector machine method in a computer-aided system

Identifying site

Sensitivity %

Specificity %

Positive predictive value %

Negative predictive value %

Accuracy %

Likelihood ratio (+) %

Lumbar spine

90.9 (85.3-96.5)

83.8 (76.6-91.0)

71.4 (62.5-80.3)

96.7 (93.8-99.6)

88.0 (81.6-94.4)

5.5 (4.5-6.5)

Femoral neck

90.0 (84.1-95.9)

69.6 (60.1-78.6)

46.6 (36.8-56.4)

96.0 (92.1-99.2)

75.0 (66.5-83.5)

3.1 (2.2-4.0)