Review Article
[Retracted] Diagnostic Performance of Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging for Benign and Malignant Breast Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Table 2
Assessment of the diagnostic accuracy and heterogeneity in subgroup analysis.
| Aggregate effect | Cases | MD | MK | Pooled Sensitivity (95% CI) | Pooled Specificity (95% CI) | value | Pooled Sensitivity (95% CI) | Pooled Specificity (95% CI) | value |
| Study type | | | | 0.83 | | | 0.47 | Prospective | 8 | 0.87 (0.83-0.91) | 0.81 (0.74-0.87) | | 0.92 (0.88-0.95) | 0.86 (0.80-0.91) | | Retrospective | 6 | 0.87 (0.81-0.92) | 0.84 (0.76-0.89) | | 0.89 (0.83-0.93) | 0.91 (0.84-0.95) | | Number of lesions(a) | | | | 0.21 | | | 0.27 | ≥60 | 8 | 0.87 (0.83-0.91) | 0.81 (0.75-0.85) | | 0.90 (0.87-0.93) | 0.87 (0.83-0.91) | | ≤60 | 6 | 0.87 (0.79-0.93) | 0.91 (0.78-0.97) | | 0.93 (0.86-0.97) | 0.93 (0.81-0.98) | | Field intensity | | | | 0.12 | | | 0.13 | 3.0 T | 11 | 0.93 (0.87-0.97) | 0.88 (0.78-0.95) | | 0.95 (0.89-0.98) | 0.93 (0.84-0.97) | | 1.5 T | 3 | 0.85 (0.81-0.88) | 0.80 (0.74-0.85) | | 0.89 (0.86-0.93) | 0.87 (0.82-0.91) | | b values (s/mm2) | | | | 0.65 | | | 0.43 | 0-1500 | 1 | | | | | | | 0-2000 | 5 | 0.87 (0.82-0.91) | 0.83 (0.75-0.89) | | 0.92 (0.88-0.95) | 0.88 (0.81-0.94) | | 0-2500 | 5 | 0.90 (0.84-0.95) | 0.88 (0.77-0.95) | | 0.93 (0.87-0.97) | 0.92 (0.83-0.98) | | 0-3000 | 3 | 0.81 (0.70-0.89) | 0.74 (0.64-0.83) | | 0.82 (0.71-0.89) | 0.84 (0.75-0.91) | |
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