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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 16.
Published in final edited form as: Invest Radiol. 2019 May;54(5):257–264. doi: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000543

Table 3.

Averaged diagnostic performance of B-mode ultrasound (US) and all possible combinations of multiparametric US with two, three, and four parameters.

Sensitivity (%) 95% CI p-values Specificity (%) 95% CI p-values +LR -LR AUC p-values
1 Parameter B-mode 90.8 (236/260) 86.6 – 94.0 45.8 (108/236) 39.3 – 52.3 1.67 0.2 0.683
2 Parameters B-mode + VTIQ 96.2 (250/260) 93.0 – 98.1 0.0005 44.1 (104/236) 37.6 – 50.7 0.1336 1.72 0.087 0.701 0.0241
B-mode + Doppler 96.5 (251/260) 93.5 – 98.4 0.0035 39.8 (94/236) 33.5 – 46.4 0.0824 1.6 0.087 0.682 0.9643
B-mode + CEUS 96.5 (251/260) 93.5 – 98.4 0.0003 29.7 (70/236) 23.9 – 35.9 < 0.0001 1.37 0.12 0.631 0.0002
3 Parameters B-mode + VTIQ + Doppler 89.2 (232/260) 84.8 – 92.7 0.5563 68.6 (162/236) 62.3 – 74.5 < 0.0001 2.85 0.16 0.789 0.0001
B-mode + VTIQ + CEUS 91.2 (237/260) 87.0 – 94.3 1 71.2 (168/236) 65.0 – 76.9 < 0.0001 3.16 0.12 0.812 0.0001
B-mode + Doppler + CEUS 93.5 (243/260) 89.7 – 96.1 0.7103 52.1 (123/236) 45.5 – 58.6 0.0872 1.95 0.13 0.728 0.0183
4 Parameters B-mode + VTIQ + Doppler + CEUS 81.5 (212/260) 76.3 – 86.1 < 0.0001 62.3 (147/236) 55.8 – 68.5 < 0.0001 2.16 0.3 0.719 0.023

P-values refer to B-mode US. CI: confidence interval, LR: likelihood ratio, AUC: area under the curve, VTIQ: virtual touch IQ elastography, CEUS: contrast-enhanced US.