Prospective Internal Validation of Mathematical Models to Predict Malignancy in Adnexal Masses: Results from the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis Study

Abstract

This internal validation of mathematical models to estimate the malignancy risk in adnexal tumors shows that the IOTA models had a diagnostic performance similar to that in the original data set. Pattern recognition used by an expert sonologist remains the best method, although the difference in performance between the best mathematical model is not large.