Table 5 Performance comparison of diagnostic methods of pulmonary nodules by ROC curve

Shah et al. [15]

0.92

Malignant and benign

Way et al. [16]

0.857

Malignant and benign

Suzuki et al. [17]

0.88

Malignant and benign

Lee et al. [18]

0.889

Malignant and benign

Orozco et al. [19]

0.805

Malignant and benign

Our method

0.91, 0.80, 0.72, 0.67 and 0.83

Likelihood of malignancy