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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2018 Apr 29;49(1):229–238. doi: 10.1002/jmri.26168

Table 5. Diagnostic test characteristics of Hi-SNR MRI-C in diagnosing steatosis at different MRS-based PDFF cutoffs.

MRS-PDFF cutoff using equivalent MRI-C thresholds Sensitivity (%) (95% CI) Specificity (%) (95% CI) PPV (%) (95% CI) NPV (%) (95% CI) Accuracy (%) (95% CI)
3% Standard MRI-C 99.1 (96.7 – 99.9) 72.2 (58.4 – 83.5) 93.5 (89.5 – 96.3) 95.1 (83.5 – 99.4) 93.7 (90.1 – 96.3)
Hi-SNR MRI-C 98.2 (95.3 – 99.5) 90.7 (79.7 – 96.9) 97.7 (94.7 – 99.3) 92.5 (81.8 – 97.9) 96.7 (93.8 – 98.5)
4% Standard MRI-C 98.0 (94.9 – 99.4) 83.3 (72.7 – 91.1) 94.2 (90.1 – 97.0) 93.8 (84.8 – 98.3) 94.1 (90.6 – 96.6)
Hi-SNR MRI-C 97.0 (93.6 – 98.9) 90.3 (81.0 – 96.0) 96.5 (92.9 – 98.6) 91.5 (82.5 – 96.8) 95.2 (91.9 – 97.4)
5% Standard MRI-C 93.6 (89.1 – 96.6) 94.0 (86.7 – 98.0) 97.2 (93.6 – 99.1) 86.8 (78.1 – 93.0) 93.7 (90.1 – 96.3)
Hi-SNR MRI-C 95.7 (91.7 – 98.1) 98.8 (93.5 – 100) 99.4 (96.9 – 100) 91.2 (83.4 – 96.1) 96.7 (93.8 – 98.5)
6% Standard MRI-C 92.9 (87.9 – 96.3) 98.0 (93.1 – 99.8) 98.7 (95.5 – 99.8) 89.3 (82.0 – 94.3) 94.8 (91.5 – 97.1)
Hi-SNR MRI-C 95.3 (90.9 – 97.9) 97.1 (91.6 – 99.4) 98.2 (94.7 – 99.6) 92.5 (85.8 – 96.7) 95.9 (92.9 – 98.0)
7% Standard MRI-C 91.7 (86.3 – 95.5) 99.1 (95.2 – 100) 99.3 (96.2 – 100) 89.7 (83.0 – 94.4) 94.8 (91.5 – 97.1)
Hi-SNR MRI-C 93.6 (88.6 – 96.9) 99.1 (95.2 – 100) 99.3 (96.3 – 100) 91.9 (85.6 – 96.0) 95.9 (92.9 – 98.0)

PPV: Positive predictive value; NPV: Negative predictive value