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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2023 Jan 18;58(4):1055–1064. doi: 10.1002/jmri.28602

TABLE 4.

Reader Study Results

CL-bpMRI DL-bpMRI Difference (CI) P
Patient based
Reader 1
 Sensitivity 0.65 0.65 0.00 (−0.33, 0.29) 1.00
 Specificity 0.75 0.81 0.06 (−0.07, 0.19) 0.25
 PPV 0.41 0.41 0.00 (−0.05, 0.03) 0.44
 NPV 0.87 0.87 0.00 (−0.05, 0.05) 0.77
 AUC 0.77 0.78 0.00 (−0.12, 0.13) 0.98
Reader 2
 Sensitivity 0.59 0.65 0.06 (−0.18, 0.29) 0.56
 Specificity 0.62 0.51 −0.11 (−0.26, 0.06) 0.14
 PPV 0.23 0.23 0.01 (−0.07, 0.07) 0.69
 NPV 0.86 0.86 0.00 (−0.08, 0.08) 0.93
 AUC 0.65 0.66 0.00 (−0.13, 0.14) 0.95
Reader 3
 Sensitivity 0.29 0.29 0.00 (−0.21, 0.21) 1.00
 Specificity 0.83 0.87 0.05 (−0.04, 0.13) 0.18
 PPV 0.33 0.33 0.00 (−0.12, 0.11) 0.42
 NPV 0.81 0.81 0.00 (−0.03, 0.03) 0.64
 AUC 0.57 0.60 0.04 (−0.07, 0.15) 0.52
Lesion based
Reader 1
 Sensitivity 0.53 0.53 0.00 (−0.26, 0.31) 1.00
 Specificity 0.72 0.79 0.07 (−0.06, 0.18) 0.39
 PPV 0.33 0.39 0.06 (−0.20, 0.27) 0.67
 NPV 0.86 0.87 0.01 (−0.08, 0.11) 0.85
 AUC 0.71 0.70 −0.01a 0.92
Reader 2
 Sensitivity 0.47 0.59 0.12 (−0.14, 0.40) 0.49
 Specificity 0.60 0.50 −0.1 (−0.24, 0.04) 0.25
 PPV 0.24 0.24 0.00 (−0.15, 0.17) 0.98
 NPV 0.81 0.82 0.01 (−0.11, 0.15) 0.92
 AUC 0.58 0.62 0.04a 0.73
Reader 3
 Sensitivity 0.29 0.29 0.00 (−0.28, 0.26) 1.00
 Specificity 0.83 0.87 0.05 (−0.04, 0.14) 0.46
 PPV 0.31 0.39 0.07 (−0.23, 0.38) 0.69
 NPV 0.81 0.82 0.01 (−0.09, 0.12) 0.90
 AUC 0.57 0.60 0.04a 0.70
a

Confidence interval not provided as data for lesion-based AUC is not paired.

CL-bpMRI = conventional biparametric MRI; DL-bpMRI = deep learning based biparametric MRI; CI = confidence interval; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value; AUC = area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.