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Table 1 Use of ROC analysis for the selection of cut-off values for individual microarray experiments.

From: Defining signal thresholds in DNA microarrays: exemplary application for invasive cancer

Array 1

Array 2

Threshold

Specificity [%]

Sensitivity [%]

% genes below threshold*

Threshold

Specificity [%]

Sensitivity [%]

% genes below threshold*

0.010

0.0

100

0

0.005

0.0

100

0

0.030

1.8

100

0

0.010

2.5

100

0

0.040

13.4

100

0

0.015

9.3

100

0

a 0.057

49.7

99.7

0

0.020

30.5

100

0

0.060

52.7

99.6

1

a 0.027

51.0

100

0

b 0.077

68.6

99.4

7

0.030

57.7

100

1

0.080

71.1

99.4

7

b 0.031

58.6

100

1

0.100

81.3

99.0

17

0.040

75.4

99.9

12

0.120

86.8

98.2

26

0.050

89.9

99.8

20

0.140

90.0

97.7

36

0.060

93.9

99.6

29

0.170

94.9

96.5

44

0.062

94.9

99.6

31

d 0.180

95.6

96.1

44

0.064

95.6

99.9

33

c 0.192

96.6

95.8

47

c 0.066

96.0

99.5

36

0.200

97.4

95.7

48

d 0.090

98.1

98.5

43

0.300

98.6

92.8

65

0.100

99.1

98.3

45

0.400

99.5

89.9

77

0.110

100

97.6

48

0.500

100

85.0

79

0.200

100

92.0

65

0.700

100

74.7

83

0.500

100

85.7

81

1.000

100

56.6

89

0.800

100

72.4

90

1.500

100

28.7

95

1.000

100

50.8

94

2.000

100

19.4

98

1.500

100

17.1

97

3.000

100

10.2

98

2.000

100

7.7

98

5.000

100

5.4

99

2.500

100

2.9

98

10.000

100

1.2

100

3.000

100

2.1

99

12.000

100

0.0

100

5.000

100

0.0

100

  1. Specificity and sensitivity for 25 signal cut-offs from 2 microarray experiments. Three thresholds (a-c) are calculated from the negative reference controls only and compared to the threshold with maximum specificity and senitivity (TM) obtained as the point of intersection in figure 2. a: mean (TX), b: median (T0.5X), c: mean + 2 standard deviations (TX2SD); d:TM Note the different signal range for array 1 and array 2. *normalized Cy3 and Cy5 pool.