Table 1.

Studies included in meta-analysis.

Author	Year	Country	Study design	No. of patients	Histology	Staging (AJCC 7th)	Endpoints	Scanner	Lesion	FDG uptake time(min)	Image reconstruction method	Cutoff value	Determination of cutoff values
Jung et al	2017	Korea	R	131	IDC+ILC+other	I, II, III	EFS	PET/CT	Primary tumor	60	Maximization algorithm	5.5	AUC
Higuchi et al	2017	Japan	R	387	IDC+ILC+other	I, II, III	EFS	PET/CT	Primary tumor	60		3.585	AUC
Kitajima et al	2016	Japan	R	196	IDC+ILC+other	I, II, III	EFS	PET/CT	Primary tumor/node	60		2.9/1.7	AUC
Jo et al	2015	Korea	R	508	IDC	I, II, III	EFS	PET/CT	Primary tumor	60	Iterative reconstruction	5.95	AUC
Vicente et al	2015	Spain	R	198	IDC+ILC	II,III	EFS/OS	PET/CT	Primary tumor/node	60	Iterative reconstruction	6.05/2.25	AUC
Yue et al	2015	USA	R	79	IDC+ILC	I–IV	EFS	PET/CT	Primary tumor	60	Iterative reconstruction	3.5	AUC
Kim et al	2015	Korea	R	153	IDC	II, III	EFS	PET/CT	Primary tumor/node	60	Iterative reconstruction algorithm	11.1/2.2	AUC
Aogi et al	2015	Japan	R	262	IDC+ILC	I,II,III	EFS/OS	PET/CT	Primary tumor	60–90	Iterative reconstruction	6.0	AUC
Baba et al	2014	Japan	R	79	IDC+ILC+other	I,II,III	EFS/OS	PET	Primary tumor	60		4.16	AUC
Cochet et al	2014	France	R	142	IDC+ILC	II,III,IV	EFS	PET/CT	Primary tumor	60		5.7	AUC
Ahn et al	2013	Korea	R	496	IDC+ILC+other	I,II,III	EFS	PET	Primary tumor	60	Iterative transmission algorithm	4	AUC
Kadoya et al	2013	Japan	R	344	IDC+ILC+other	I,II,III	EFS	PET/CT	Primary tumor	60–90	Iterative algorithm	3	AUC
Song et al	2012	Korea	R	65	IDC	II,III	EFS	PET/CT	Primary tumor/node	60	Maximum iterative reconstruction algorithm	6.9/2.8	AUC