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Table 5 Diagnostic performance of variables for identifying severe EV

From: Quantitative measurements of esophageal varices using computed tomography for prediction of severe varices and the risk of bleeding: a preliminary study

Variables		Training cohort (n = 95)							Validation cohort (n = 41)
Variables		AUC	ACC			SPE	SEN		AUC		ACC		SPE		SEN		Cut-off value
EVG	0.72			0.705	0.714			0.703		0.698		0.643		0.778		0.594		III (I, II, III)
EVD	0.772			0.684	0.857			0.635		0.635		0.537		0.778		0.469		5.58 (mm)
CSA	0.704			0.611	1			0.5		0.757		0.512		1		0.375		70.39 (mm²)
EVV	0.768			0.737	0.714			0.743		0.729		0.659		0.444		0.719		1083.8 (mm³)
DLGV	0.707			0.589	0.81			0.527		0.748		0.634		0.889		0.562		7 (mm)
SNV	0.65			0.558	0.81			0.486		0.75		0.634		0.889		0.562		12 (mm)

AUC: area under the curve, ACC: accuracy, SPE: specificity, SEN: sensitivity, CI: confidence interval, the remaining abbreviations are shown in Table 3

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