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Table 2 Performance of the proposed SVM method for identifying women with combined skeletal bone mineral densities (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 (+) %

Skeletal BMD

90.6 (84.9-96.3)

80.9 (73.2-88.6)

61.2 (51.7-70.8)

96.6 (92.0-100.0)

79.0 (71.0-86.9)

4.1 (3.3-5.1)