. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: BJU Int. 2013 Nov 13;113(2):218–227. doi: 10.1111/bju.12243

Table 3.

Sensitivities, specificities, positive predictive values (PPV) and negative predictive values (NPV) of small and large tumour detection on DCE-MRI correlated with whole gland histopathology (from [23]).

MRI performance for detecting 56 cancer foci according to tumour volume in regions
	% foci (95% CI)
	>0.2 mL	>0.5 mL	All cancers
Sensitivity	76.6 (68.5–85.3)	90.0 (84–96)	55.4 (45–65)
Specificity	91.2 (85.5–96.9)	87.9 (81.3–94.4)	90.0 (84–96)
PPV	85.7 (78.7–92.7)	77.1 (68.7–85.5)	88.6 (82–95)
NPV	85.2 (78.1–92.3)	95.1 (90.6–99.3)	59.0 (49.2–68.8)