Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50182-4, published online 10 October 2019

This Article contains errors.

In the Discussion section,

“Thus, highest accuracy (90%) was achieved when both DWI- and 18F-FET-derived parameters were combined in a biparametric approach, which was superior to evaluating maximum target-to-background (TBRmax) ratio or mean apparent diffusion coefficient (ADCmean) alone.”

should read:

“Thus, highest accuracy (88%) was achieved when both DWI- and 18F-FET-derived parameters were combined in a biparametric approach, which was superior to evaluating maximum target-to-background (TBRmax) ratio or mean apparent diffusion coefficient (ADCmean) alone.”

In the legend of Figure 3,

“Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. ROC curves for TBRmax (a), ADCmean (b) and biparametric analysis of DWI- and FET PET-derived parameters (c, ADCmean and TBRmax) were illustrated. Biparametric analysis (c) presented highest AUC (Area Under the Curve). Last panel (d) shows a comparison between ROC curves. p-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.”

should read:

“Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. ROC curves for TBRmax (a), ADCmean (b) and biparametric analysis of DWI- and FET PET-derived parameters (c, ADCmean and TBRmax) were illustrated. Biparametric analysis (c) using optimal criterions based on Youden index (TBRmax > 2.1196 and ADCmean > 1253.76) presented highest AUC (Area Under the Curve). Last panel (d) shows a comparison between ROC curves. p-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.”

Additionally, in Table 1 the values in the column entitled ‘Positive/Negative predictive value’ are incorrect, and the column entitled ‘Positive/Negative Likelihood Ratio’ was omitted.

The correct Table 1 appears below.

Table 1 Diagnostic measures of clinical assessment and quantitative PET/MRI analysis.