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. 2020 Dec 18;40(3):407–416. doi: 10.14366/usg.20147

Table 3.

Cutoff values based on the Youden index, with sensitivity and specificity values, of liver stiffness measurement by TE and SWE-10, SWE-5, or SWE-3 for the diagnosis of significant (F2-F4) and advanced fibrosis (F3-F4)

Cutoff (kPa) Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Accuracy (%)
Significant fibrosis
 TE ≥7.9 63.0 63.2 63.0
 SWE-10 ≥8.4 74.0 73.7 73.9
 SWE-5 ≥7.8 77.8 73.4 76.1
 SWE-3 ≥7.8 66.7 63.2 65.2
Advanced fibrosis
 TE ≥8.5 77.8 78.6 78.3
 SWE-10 ≥9.1 72.2 78.5 76.1
 SWE-5 ≥8.8 77.8 75.0 76.1
 SWE-3 ≥8.2 66.7 71.4 69.6

TE, transient elastography; SWE-10, p-SWE with 10 measurements; SWE-5, p-SWE with five measurements; SWE-3, p-SWE with three measurements; p-SWE, point shear-wave elastography.