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 4

Statistical analysis of the diagnostic ability between ss-DWI and rs-DWI in each anatomical region of the brain.

RegionsTrue PositiveTrue NegativeFalse PositiveFalse NegativeStatistical Analysis (%)
SensitivitySpecificityPPVNPV
ss-DWIrs-DWIss-DWIrs-DWIss-DWIrs-DWIss-DWIrs-DWIss-DWIrs-DWIss-DWIrs-DWIss-DWIrs-DWIss-DWIrs-DWI

Frontal Cortex881100990220801000100801000100
Parietal Cortex55610041749398.3010088.7100080
Insular Cortex4600200066.6100N/AN/A100100N/AN/A
Temporal Cortex252700202292.5100010092.51000100
Occipital Cortex303200202293.8100010093.81000100
White Matter85112113027275.81002566.696.5993100
Basal Ganglia161700001094.1100N/AN/A1001000N/A
Brain Stem44000000100100N/AN/A1001000N/A
Cerebellum111600005068.8100N/AN/A1001000N/A

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