Table 5 Comparison of Diagnostic Performance for Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer Detection between ssEPI DWI and msEPI DWI.
From: Comparison of single-shot EPI and multi-shot EPI in prostate DWI at 3.0 T
Reader 1 (9 years of experience) | Reader 2 (13 years of experience) | Reader 2 (23 years of experience) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ssEPI | msEPI | p value | ssEPI | msEPI | p value | ssEPI | msEPI | p value | |
Sensitivity | 72.1 (49/68) | 75.0 (51/68) | 0.500 | 60.3 (41/68) | 63.2 (43/68) | 0.500 | 69.1 (47/68) | 73.5 (50/68) | 0.625 |
Specificity | 89.7 (61/68) | 92.6 (63/68) | 0.625 | 92.6 (63/68) | 88.2 (60/68) | 0.250 | 76.5 (52/68) | 86.8 (59/68) | 0.065 |
Positive predictive value | 87.5 (49/56) | 91.1 (51/56) | NA | 89.1 (41/46) | 84.3 (43/51) | NA | 74.6 (47/63) | 84.7 (50/59) | NA |
Negative predictive value | 76.3 (61/80) | 78.8 (63/80) | NA | 70.0 (63/90) | 70.6 (60/85) | NA | 71.2 (52/73) | 76.6 (59/77) | NA |
Accuracy | 80.9 (110/136) | 83.8 (114/136) | 0.219 | 76.5 (104/136) | 75.7 (103/136) | 1.000 | 72.8 (99/136) | 80.1 (109/136) | 0.057 |
AUC | 0.844 | 0.850 | 0.605 | 0.774 | 0.781 | 0.632 | 0.787 | 0.821 | 0.097 |
