Table 3 Diagnostic performance of B-mode ultrasonography for diagnosing fatty liver.

From: Discordance diagnosis between B-mode ultrasonography and MRI proton density fat fraction for fatty liver

 

AUC (95% CI)

Sensitivity (95% CI)

Specificity (95% CI)

PPV (95% CI)

NPV (95% CI)

All patients (N = 1514)

0.863 (0.845–0.880)

95.8% (93.8–97.2)

76.9% (74.1–79.7)

73.8% (71.4–76.1)

96.4% (94.8–97.5)

Patients without CLD or LC (N = 760)

0.788 (0.757–0.816)

98.2% (96.5–99.2)

59.4% (53.7–64.8)

77.3% (74.9–79.6)

95.9% (92.1–97.9)

Patients with CLD or LC (N = 754)

0.878 (0.852–0.900)

89.2% (83.5–93.5)

86.4% (83.3–89.0)

65.1% (60.1–69.7)

96.6% (94.8–97.8)

  1. AUC the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, CI confidence interval, CLD chronic liver disease, LC liver cirrhosis, NPV negative predictive value, PPV positive predictive value.
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