Research Article

Differentiation of Pituitary Adenoma from Rathke Cleft Cyst: Combining MR Image Features with Texture Features

Table 5

The diagnostic ability of independent predictors in discriminating pituitary adenoma from Rathke cleft cyst in the training group.

Texture featuresAUCStandard error95% CICutoff pointSensitivitySpecificity

Contrast-enhanced image
 Histo-Skewness0.800.0560.707∼0.8671.00597.0667.50
 GLCM-Correlation0.750.0530.655∼0.8270.45085.2958.97

Histo, histogram-based matrix; GLCM, grey-level co-occurrence matrix; AUC, area under the curve; CI, confidence interval.