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Table 3 The ROC curves of PET parameters for predicting treatment response

From: Tumor to liver maximum standardized uptake value ratio of FDG-PET/CT parameters predicts tumor treatment response and survival of stage III non-small cell lung cancer

Variables	AUC	SE	95% CI	△AUC	ρ	Cut-off	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)
Tumor SUVmax	0.81	0.04	0.73–0.88	0.03^a	0.16	12.1	86.5	68.6
Tumor SUVmean	0.72	0.05	0.63–0.80	0.12^b	0.00	4.35	94.6	40.0
TLR	0.79	0.04	0.70–0.86	0.05^c	0.00	4.27	81.1	75.7
TBR	0.77	0.05	0.68–0.85	0.07^d	0.00	6.73	73.0	71.4
TLMR	0.84	0.04	0.76–0.91	0.07^e	0.00	4.48	94.6	61.4
TBMR	0.77	0.05	0.68–0.85	0.04^f	0.12	6.69	86.5	61.4

Note: ^aSUVmax–TLMR; ^bSUVmean–TLMR; ^cTLR–TLMR; ^dTBR–TLMR; ^eTBMR–TLMR; and ^fSUVmax–TBMR.

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