Research Article

Combination of Maximum Shear Wave Elasticity Modulus and TIRADS Improves the Diagnostic Specificity in Characterizing Thyroid Nodules: A Retrospective Study

Table 8

Diagnostic performance of TIRADS and SWE + TIRADS scores.

AUCSensitivity (%)Specificity (%)PPV (%)NPV (%)Accuracy (%)

TIRADS score (cutoff > 5)0.89689.873.683.283.283.2
SWE + TIRADS score (cutoff > 8)0.91781.988.491.277.084.2