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Fig. 2. Diagram shows how test specificity focuses on second column
of two-by-two table. Test specificity equals D / (B + D), or number of
patients with true-negative (TN) findings divided by all patients with
negative findings on reference test. + = positive test result, - = negative
test result, TP = true-positive, FP = false-positive, FN = false-negative.
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