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. 2021 Feb 19;11:620628. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.620628

Table 3.

Summary performance of DCE-MRI for the diagnosis of csPCa and PCa.

Analysis (No. of Studies)
The diagnostic ability of DCE-MRI for csPCa in equivocal lesions (10) The diagnostic ability of DCE-MRI for PCa in equivocal lesions (5)
Sensitivity 0.67 (95% CI, 0.56–0.76) 0.57 (0.46, 0.68)
Specificity 0.58 (95% CI, 0.46–0.68) 0.58 (0.45, 0.70)
PLR 1.6 (95% CI, 1.3–2.0) 1.4 (1.1, 1.7)
NLR 0.57 (95% CI, 0.45–0.73) 0.74 (0.59, 0.93)
DOR 3 (95% CI, 2–4) 2 (1, 3)
AUC 0.67 (95% CI, 0.63–0.71) 0.60 (0.55–0.64)

PCa, prostate cancer; csPCa, clinically significant prostate cancer; PLR, positive likelihood ratio; NLR, negative likelihood ratio; DOR, diagnostic odds ratios; AUC, the area under the summary receiver operating characteristic curves; CI, confidence intervals.