Table 10

 Comparison of the Tokyo score with the Cancer of the Liver Italian Program (CLIP) score and Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) staging in the training and testing samples

ModelAICΔAIC
*Difference in AIC (Akaike information criterion) between a model containing Tokyo and CLIP and that containing only Tokyo.
†Difference in AIC between a model containing Tokyo and CLIP and that containing only CLIP.
Training sample (n = 403)
    Tokyo+CLIP+BCLC2521.560
    Tokyo+CLIP2519.722−1.838
    Removing CLIP2523.301+3.579*
    Removing Tokyo2552.765+33.043†
Testing sample (n = 203)
    Tokyo+CLIP+BCLC710.4624
    Tokyo+CLIP709.4629−0.9995
    Removing CLIP714.6591+4.1967*
    Removing Tokyo715.2137+4.7513†