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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2013 Nov 22;40(4):813–823. doi: 10.1002/jmri.24462

Table 5.

Area Under Curve (AUC) and Standard Error (SE) of AUC for the ROC Curves for Differentiation of Breast Lesions Based on the Values of ADC600, Dd, fp and the Combination (Dd, fp), Optimal Sensitivity and Specificity for Each Parameter and the Corresponding Parameter Thresholds

Parameter AUC (SE) Sensitivity Specificity Threshold
Malignant lesions versus benign lesions
ADC600 (mm2/s) 0.72 (0.08) 0.65 0.71 1.54 ×10−3
Dd(mm2/s) 0.75 (0.08) 0.85 0.64 1.52 × 10−3
fp (%) 0.79 (0.07) 0.73 0.86 4.9
(Dd, fp) (probability, unitless) 0.84 (0.06) 0.85 0.86 0.58
Malignant lesions versus FGTM
ADC600 (mm2/s) 0.86 (0.05) 0.77 0.81 1.57 × 10−3
Dd (mm2/s) 0.90 (0.04)* 0.81 0.85 1.48 × 10−3
fp (%) 0.93 (0.04) 0.88 1.00 3.9
(Dd, fp) (probability, unitless) 0.97 (0.03) 0.92 0.96 0.40
Benign lesions versus FGTB
ADC600 (mm2/s) 0.69 (0.10) 0.86 0.50 1.91 × 10−3
Dd (mm2/s) 0.69 (0.10) 0.93 0.50 1.88 × 10−3
fp (%) 0.63 (0.11) 0.64 0.79 2.1
(Dd, fp) (probability, unitless) 0.74 (0.10) 0.71 0.64 0.49

FGTM and FGTB are FGT ROIs in patients with malignant and benign lesions, respectively. The probability of belonging to the lesion of interest class based on (Dd, fp) ranges between P = 1 (definitely tissue of interest) and P = 0 (definitely other).

*

AUC(Dd) versus AUC(ADC600): P = 0.008.

AUC(Dd, fp) versus AUC(ADC600): P = 0.045.