Research Article

The Diagnostic Ability of rs-DWI to Detect Subtle Acute Infarction Lesion in the Different Regions of the Brain and the Comparison between Different b-Values

Table 3

Statistical analysis of the diagnostic ability between ss-DWI and rs-DWI in the whole brain.

SequenceResultsP-Value (McNemars)Statistical Analysis (%)
True PositiveTrue NegativeFalse PositiveFalse NegativeSensitivitySpecificityPPVNPV

rs-DWI3851911P=199.79599.795
ss-DWI31802068P≤0.00182.380940

ss-DWI: single shot-Diffusion Weighted Imaging; rs-DWI: readout segment-Diffusion Weighted Imaging; PPV: positive predictive value; NPV: negative predictive value.