Authors MRI scan Study design Cases Mean PSA Reference standard T2WI DCE MRSI DWI Combined techniques Sala et al. [12 ] PAC + ERC 1.5-T Prospective 45 3.57 ng/dL Whole-mount RP section Se 36–76% Spe 65–81%
0.61–0.75 Westphalen et al. [13 ] PAC + ERC 1.5-T Retrospective 59 TRUS biopsy Se 62–74% Sp 64–68% PPV 70–80% NPV 50–70% Acc 63–71%
Rouvière et al. [14 ] PAC 1.5-T Prospective 22 6.36 ng/dL TRUS biopsy Se 26–44% Sp 64–86% PPV 47–63% NPV 61–69% Acc 54–60% Se 70–74% Sp 73–85% PPV 68–78% NPV 78-79% Acc 73–79% Haider et al. [15 ] PAC 1.5-T Prospective 33 2.1 ng/dL TRUS biopsy Se 38% Sp 80% PPV 24% NPV 88% Acc 74% Se 72% Sp 85% PPV 46% NPV 95% Acc 83% Kara et al. [16 ] PAC 1.5-T Retrospective 20 TRUS biopsy Se 86.7% Sp 100% PPV 100% NPV 71% Acc 90% Se 93.3% Sp 100% PPV 100% NPV 83.3% Acc 95% Menard et al. [17 ] Prospective 35 TRUS biopsy Se 88.9% Sp 92% PPV 91.7% Acc 91.4% Coakley et al. [18 ] PAC + ERC 1.5-T Retrospective 21 2.3 ng/dL TRUS biopsy
0.49–0.51 Se 89% Sp 82% PPV 64% NPV 96%
0.81 Pucar et al. [19 ] PAC + ERC 1.5-T Prospective 9 3.7 ng/dL Whole-mount RP section Se 68% Sp 96% Se 77% Sp 78% Westphalen et al. [20 ] PAC + ERC 1.5-T Retrospective 64 2.6 ng/dL TRUS biopsy
0.67 T2WI + MRS:
0.79 Wu et al. [9 ] Metanalysis Se 74% Spe 65% Se 90% Spe 81% MRSI + DCE: Se 90% Spe 90% Tamada et al. [21 ] PAC 1.5-T Retrospective 16 7.42 ng/dL TRUS biopsy Se 27% Sp 99% PPV 86% NPV 87% Acc 87% Se 50% Sp 98% PPV 85% NPV 90% Acc 90% Se 68% Sp 95% PPV 75% NPV 94% Acc 91% T2WI + DCE + DWI: Se 77% Sp 92% PPV 68% NPV 95% Acc 90% Kim et al. [22 ] PAC 3.0-T Prospective 36 3.44 ng/dL TRUS biopsy Se 25% Sp 92% PPV 57% NPV 74%
0.612 T2WI + DWI: Se 62% Sp 97% PPV 91% NPV 81%
0.879 Morgan et al. [23 ] ERC 1.5-T Retrospective 24 TRUS biopsy Se 93.8% Sp 75% PPV 8.2% NPV 85.7% Hara et al. [24 ] PAC 1.5-T Retrospective 10 4.44 ng/dL TRUS biopsy Se 69% Sp 91% PPV 37% NPV 97% Acc 89% Arumainayagam et al. [25 ] PAC 1.5-T Retrospective 13 TRUS biopsy T2WI + DCE + DWI:
0.86–0.93 Westphalen et al. [26 ] PAC + ERC 3.0-T Retrospective 26 2.5 ng/dL TRUS biopsy
0.616
0.830
0.755T2WI + MRS + DWI:
0.869 MRS + DWI:
0.863 T2WI + MRS:
0.841 T2WI + DWI:
0.774 Kim et al. [27 ] PAC 3.0-T Retrospective 24 2.76 ng/dL TRUS biopsy Se 27% Sp 80% PPV 32% NPV 76% Acc 67%
0.594 Se 49% Sp 92% PPV 67% NPV 84% Acc 81%
0.737 Se 49% Sp 93% PPV 72% NPV 84% Acc 82%
0.782 DCE + DWI: Se 59% Sp 91% PPV 69% NPV 87% Acc 83%
0.863 Akin et al. [28 ] PAC + ERC 1.5-T Retrospective 24 1.63 ng/dL TRUS biopsy Se 13–81% Sp 25–88%
0.53–0.64 T2WI + DCE + DWI: Se 81–94% Sp 75–100%
0.86–0.95 Donati et al. [29 ] PAC + ERC 1.5 or 3.0-T Retrospective 53 TRUS biopsy Se 54–66% Sp 39–61% PPV 63–77% NPV 30–48%
0.46–0.632 T2WI + DCE: Se 60–63% Sp 56–89% PPV 73–91% NPV 44–53%
0.601–0.830 T2WI + DWI: Se 54–83% Sp 89–94% PPV 93–95% NPV 52–73%
0.812–0.863 T2WI + DCE + DWI: Se 49–71% Sp 94% PPV 94–96% NPV 49–63%
0.722–0.879 Roy et al. [11 ] PAC + ERC 3.0-T Retrospective 32 3.6 ng/dL TRUS biopsy Se 74% Se 94% Se 74% Se 94% T2WI + DCE: Se 91% T2WI + DWI + DCE: Se 100% T2WI + DWI + DCE + MRS: Se 76% T2WI + DWI: Se 94% T2WI + MRS: 44%