Table 4

Statistical confusion matrix of algorithm in our sample size and differences between the current study results and the previous algorithm results

Study of any diabetic retinopathy
TPFPTNFNError αArea under the curve (AUC) 0.9884
219337640.0079
Specificity (SP)Sensitivity (S)Positive predictive values (PPV)Negative predictive values (NPV)Error β
99.21%98.21%98.65%98.95%0.0179
Current study resultsOriginal algorithm
S98.21% (95% CI, 96.24 to 99.99)84% (95% CI, 83.46 to 84.49)
SP99.21% (95% CI, 97.70 to 99.99)88.5% (95% CI, 88.29 to 88.72)
PPV98.65% (95% CI, 96.24 to 99.98)63.8% (95% CI, 63.18 to 64.35)
NPV98.95% (95% CI, 83.46 to 84.49)95.8% (95% CI, 95.68 to 95.96)
Error α0.00790.115
Error β0–01790.16
AUC0.988 (95% CI, 0.978 to 0.99)0.876 (95% CI, 0.858 to 0.886)
  • FN, false negatives; FP, false positives; TN, true negatives; TP, true positives.