Table 4.
Study characteristics | No. |
Pooled sensitivity
(95% CI) |
Pooled specificity (95% CI) | Positive LR (95% CI) | Negative LR (95% CI) | AUC | p |
Total | 41 | 0.73 (0.68-0.77) | 0.74 (0.68-0.80) | 2.85 (2.27-3.58) | 0.36 (0.31-0.42) | 0.7877 | |
Field strength, Tesla | |||||||
1.5 | 28 | 0.72 (0.69-0.75) | 0.70 (0.67-0.72) | 2.04 (1.78-2.33) | 0.46 (0.39-0.55) | 0.7559 | 0.0524 |
3.0 | 13 | 0.77 (0.73-0.80) | 0.78 (0.75-0.81) | 3.92 (2.49-6.18) | 0.35 (0.27-0.46) | 0.8412 | |
High resolution | |||||||
Yes | 17 | 0.74 (0.67-0.80) | 0.78 (0.67-0.86) | 3.30 (2.27-4.80) | 0.34 (0.28-0.41) | 0.8125 | 0.2513 |
No/Not specified | 24 | 0.72 (0.65-0.81) | 0.73 (0.64-0.81) | 2.73 (2.03-3.66) | 0.37 (0.30-0.47) | 0.7936 | |
Design | |||||||
Retrospective | 15 | 0.77 (0.73-0.81) | 0.62 (0.58-0.66) | 1.85 (1.53-2.22) | 0.46 (0.37-0.58) | 0.7421 | 0.1358 |
Prospective | 26 | 0.72 (0.69-0.75) | 0.77 (0.75-0.79) | 2.87 (2.28-3.62) | 0.40 (0.33-0.49) | 0.8056 | |
Node by node | |||||||
Yes | 5 | 0.55 (0.40-0.69) | 0.89 (0.79-0.95) | 5.21 (2.03-13.46) | 0.51 (0.34-0.76) | 0.7813 | 0.9405 |
No | 36 | 0.74 (0.70-0.79) | 0.71 (0.64-0.77) | 2.59 (2.12-3.10) | 0.36 (0.31-0.42) | 0.7937 | |
Read approach | |||||||
Independent | 12 | 0.77 (0.72-0.81) | 0.64 (0.60-0.69) | 2.14 (1.65-2.77) | 0.42 (0.31-0.55) | 0.7853 | 0.6774 |
Consensus | 29 | 0.73 (0.70-0.76) | 0.75 (0.73-0.77) | 2.53 (2.06-3.10) | 0.42 (0.35-0.51) | 0.7894 | |
Blinding | |||||||
Single | 7 | 0.72 (0.63-0.80) | 0.57 (0.46-0.67) | 1.70 (1.40-2.03) | 0.49 (0.38-0.63) | 0.7008 | 0.0281 |
Double | 34 | 0.73 (0.67-0.78) | 0.78 (0.70-0.84) | 3.31 (2.54-4.28) | 0.34 (0.29-0.41) | 0.8082 |
No., number of data subsets; AUC, area under the curve; p, p value of meta-regression analysis.