AUROC Explained: What the Area Under the ROC Curve Measures — and What It Cannot Tell You

A practitioner-oriented reference entry on AUROC (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve) for clinicians, researchers, and procurement professionals who encounter this metric in clinical AI studies and vendor presentations — covering what it measures, how to interpret it correctly, and why it must be paired with calibration assessment and net benefit analysis to support defensible clinical conclusions.

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