Table 3.

Comparison of our findings with the scientific works published since 2015 (from PubMed database) predicting csPCa (independently of the lesion zone).

Year	Author	mpMRI Sequences	Features	AUC	SE	SP	I
2015	Fehr et al. [15]	T2w, ADC	18 RFs	0.83	-	-	-
2017	Barbieri et al. [14]	ADC, IVIM	ADCmean (b[0–900])	0.79	0.85	0.74	0.59
2018	Bonekamp et al. [17]	T2w, ADC	10 RFs	0.88	0.97	0.58	0.55
2019	Cristel et al. [29]	DCE-MRI	Ktrans	0.75	0.95	0.61	0.56
2019	Min et al. [9]	T2w, ADC, DWIb1500	9 RFs	0.82	0.84	0.73	0.57
2020	Zhang et al. [16]	T2w, ADC, DWI	10 RFs	0.81	0.80	0.73	0.53
2020	Hiremath et al. [13]	ADC	ADCmean (b[0–1300])	0.85	0.77	0.81	0.58
2021	Our study	ADC	2 RFs	0.76	0.70	0.88	0.58
2021	Our study	DWIb2000	2 RFs	0.84	0.90	0.75	0.65

The comparison is based on mpMRI sequences adopted, number of RFs, AUC values, sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP) and informedness (I).