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Table 3 Percent agreement with ground truth and Average Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) Estimates

From: Classification of follicular lymphoma: the effect of computer aid on pathologists grading

 

Without Computer

With Computer

 
 

Agreement (%)

95 % CI

Agreement (%)

95 % CI

p-value of the difference

Experts

53.8

(37.2, 70.3)

62.5

(47.3, 77.7)

0.188

Residents

58.6

(44.0, 73.1)

70.0 (56.9, 83.1)

0.014

 

All Readers

56.8

(42.3, 71.1)

67.3

(53.6, 80.1)

0.004

 

AUC

95 % CI

AUC

95 % CI

p-value

Experts

0.62

(0.40, 0.84)

0.69

(0.50, 0.87)

0.21

Residents

0.66

(0.46, 0.86)

0.79

(0.63, 0.95)

0.04

All Readers

0.65

(0.46, 0.83)

0.75

(0.58, 0.92)

0.03