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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 11.
Published in final edited form as: Int Braz J Urol. 2009 Mar-Apr;35(2):171–182. doi: 10.1590/s1677-55382009000200007

Table 1.

Definition of outcome categories. A positive diagnosis was considered correct if the reader correctly identified tumor and correctly noted the side of the prostate gland containing cancer. In patients in which tumor was bilateral, the reader was considered correct regardless of which side was indicated as dominant.

True Positive True Negative False Positive False Negative
MRI Right + + - - - + + - - - - -
Left - - + + - - - + + - - -
Biopsy Right + + + - - - - - + + + -
Left + - + + - - + - - + - +

MRI = magnetic resonance imaging.