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. 2009 Sep 30;20(4):771–781. doi: 10.1007/s00330-009-1616-y

Table 2.

Diagnostic performance for differentiating between malignant and benign lesions

Differential diagnosis Sensitivity Specificity Accuracy AUC
Mass type malignant vs. benign
  Morphology (shape + texture) 0.95 0.74 0.89 0.87
  Kinetics (hot spot) 0.91 0.74 0.91 0.88
  Kinetics (whole lesion) 0.91 0.42 0.74 0.75
  Morphology + kinetics (hot spot) 0.97 0.80 0.90 0.93
Non-mass type malignant vs. benign
  Morphology (texture) 0.87 0.56 0.81 0.76
  Kinetics (hot spot) 0.79 0.35 0.72 0.59
  Kinetics (whole lesion) 0.79 0.33 0.72 0.55
  Morphology + kinetics (hot spot) 0.87 0.66 0.81 0.78
All malignant vs. all benign
  Morphology (texture) 0.84 0.72 0.84 0.81
  Kinetics (hot spot) 0.82 0.60 0.81 0.79
  Kinetics (whole lesion) 0.82 0.50 0.74 0.61
  Morphology + kinetics (hot spot) 0.86 0.72 0.87 0.86