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 effectCasesMDMK
Pooled
Sensitivity
(95% CI)
Pooled
Specificity
(95% CI)
valuePooled
Sensitivity (95% CI)
Pooled
Specificity
(95% CI)
value

Study type0.830.47
 Prospective80.87 (0.83-0.91)0.81 (0.74-0.87)0.92 (0.88-0.95)0.86 (0.80-0.91)
 Retrospective60.87 (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)0.210.27
  ≥6080.87 (0.83-0.91)0.81 (0.75-0.85)0.90 (0.87-0.93)0.87 (0.83-0.91)
  ≤6060.87 (0.79-0.93)0.91 (0.78-0.97)0.93 (0.86-0.97)0.93 (0.81-0.98)
Field intensity0.120.13
 3.0 T110.93 (0.87-0.97)0.88 (0.78-0.95)0.95 (0.89-0.98)0.93 (0.84-0.97)
 1.5 T30.85 (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)0.650.43
 0-15001
 0-200050.87 (0.82-0.91)0.83 (0.75-0.89)0.92 (0.88-0.95)0.88 (0.81-0.94)
 0-250050.90 (0.84-0.95)0.88 (0.77-0.95)0.93 (0.87-0.97)0.92 (0.83-0.98)
 0-300030.81 (0.70-0.89)0.74 (0.64-0.83)0.82 (0.71-0.89)0.84 (0.75-0.91)