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Table 3.

Definitions and statistics used in the analysis of Morphological Blooming and kinetics as complementary methods for detecting breast cancer

	Morphological Blooming	Kinetics	Morphological Blooming plus Kinetics
How evaluated	Computer analysis	Reader Interpretations
Criteria for positive finding	Blooming value ≥10	Median finding of “plateau” or “washout”	Positive finding using either method
Sensitivity	78%	67%	89%
False negatives	10/45	15/45	5/45
Sensitivity on set of false negatives from complementary method	10/15 (67%)	5/10 (50%)