Table 4:

AUROC for predicting surgery using each quantitative metric on the prognostic cohort (n = 58)

MetricPredicting Surgery at Each Spinal Level
AUROC95% CISignificancea
DSCA82.4(75.5–90.4)P = 1.0
DSDIA81.3(73.2–89.4)P < .001
DDRDIA80.8(73.0–89.5)P < .001
DDRCA83.5b(76.6–90.1)bP < .001b
  • a The P values represent comparison between each metric and AUROC obtained with the baseline metric DSCA.

  • b Quantitative metric with the highest AUROC.