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Table 4 Diagnostic performance metrics of cytological diagnoses

From: Clinical study on primary screening of oral cancer and precancerous lesions by oral cytology

Perfomance metrics

LBC mehod

Conventional method

Sensitivity

81.8%

79.3%

Specificity

85.4%

69.8%

Accuracy

84.0%

73.2%

False positive

14.6%

30.2%

False negative

18.2%

20.7%