Table 1.
Training set | Test set | P value | ||
Category A: HCC | No. of lesions/No. of patients | 88/79 | 23/22 | |
Age (median [range]) in yr | 49 (24-81) | 49.5 (33-70) | 0.726 | |
Sex (percentage of women) | 6/79 (7.6%) | 5/22 (22.7%) | 0.044 | |
Size of lesion (mean ± SD) in mm | 60.6 ± 36.3 | 63.0 ± 45.4 | 0.789 | |
Histopathologic diagnosis (No. of lesions/No. of patients) | ||||
Surgery | 79/70 | 20/19 | ||
Biopsy | 9/9 | 3/3 | ||
Category B: Metastases | No. of lesions/No. of patients | 89/34 | 23/14 | |
Age (Median [range]) (yr) | 58.5 (23-79) | 58 (23-79) | 0.937 | |
Sex (Percentage of women) | 8/34 (23.5%) | 6/14 (42.9%) | 0.181 | |
Size of lesion (mean ± SD) in mm | 23.0 ± 13.9 | 22.7 ± 11.5 | 0.937 | |
Primary tumors (No. of lesions/No. of patients) | ||||
Colorectal cancer | 40/20 | 10/6 | ||
Gastric carcinoma | 13/3 | 3/2 | ||
Breast cancer | 2/1 | 0/0 | ||
Lung cancer | 14/4 | 4/2 | ||
Thyroid cancer | 16/4 | 4/2 | ||
Malignant jejunal stromal tumor | 2/1 | 1/1 | ||
Duodenal papillary carcinoma | 0/0 | 1/1 | ||
Laryngocarcinoma | 2/1 | 0/0 | ||
Category C: Benign non-inflammatory FLLs | No. of lesions/No. of patients | 128/97 | 34/32 | |
Age (median [range]) in yr | 34 (17-82) | 34 (10-74) | 0.729 | |
Sex (percentage of women) | 52/97 (53.6%) | 16/32 (50.0%) | 0.723 | |
Size of lesion (mean ± SD) in mm | 41.9 ± 30.5 | 52.9 ± 28.4 | 0.060 | |
Histological type (No. of lesions/No. of patients) | ||||
Hemangioma | 55/35 | 15/15 | ||
FNH | 67/58 | 17/15 | ||
Adenoma | 6/4 | 2/2 | ||
Category D: Hepatic abscesses | No. of lesions/No. of patients | 105/77 | 27/20 | |
Age (median [range]) in yr | 54 (4-82) | 55 (25-82) | 0.936 | |
Sex (percentage of women) | 24/77 (31.2%) | 7/20 (35.0%) | 0.743 | |
Size of lesion (mean ± SD) in mm | 64.5 ± 34.9 | 63.8 ± 24.2 | 0.916 |
FLLs: Focal liver lesions; FNH: Focal nodular hyperplasias.