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Table 5 Diagnostic performance of ADC histogram parameters in differentiating between stage IA EC and BELs

From: Whole-lesion apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) histogram as a quantitative biomarker to preoperatively differentiate stage IA endometrial carcinoma from benign endometrial lesions

Histogram features

Cut-off

AUC (95%CI)

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

Accuracy (%)

ADC10th (× 10−3 mm2/s)

0.973

0.920 (0.885–0.956)

86.5

85.8

86.2

ADC90th (× 10−3 mm2/s)

1.401

0.891 (0.849–0.933)

88.9

75.5

82.8

ADCmin (× 10−3 mm2/s)

0.829

0.876 (0.830–0.922)

84.9

80.2

82.8

ADCmax (× 10−3 mm2/s)

1.627

0.747 (0.684–0.810)

68.3

68.9

68.5

ADCmean (× 10−3 mm2/s)

1.147

0.926 (0.893–0.960)

86.5

87.8

87.1

ADCmedian (× 10−3 mm2/s)

1.161

0.928 (0.895–0.960)

88.9

83

86.2

IQR (× 10−3 mm2/s)

0.193

0.594 (0.520–0.668)

52.4

64.2

57.8

MAD (× 10–3)

0.111

0.595 (0.521–0.669)

48.4

70.8

58.6

rMAD (× 10–3)

0.08

0.603 (0.529–0.676)

54

66

59.5

RMS (× 10–3)

1.157

0.925 (0.890–0.959)

85.7

86.8

86.2

Energy (× 10–3)

0.366

0.673 (0.603–0.743)

76.2

55.7

66.8

Total Energy (× 10–3)

9.91

0.663 (0.592–0.734)

74.6

57.5

66.8

Entropy (× 10–6)

4.082

0.609 (0.534–0.683)

55.6

65.1

59.9

Skewness (× 10–6)

0.566

0.748 (0.685–0.811)

63.5

80.2

71.1

Kurtosis (× 10–6)

3.357

0.649 (0.579–0.720)

52.4

77.4

63.8

Variance (× 10–6)

0.063

0.583 (0.508–0.657)

95.2

20.8

61.2

Uniformity (× 10–6)

0.072

0.620 (0.547–0.694)

52.4

70.8

60.8

  1. IQR, interquartile range; MAD, mean absolute deviation; rMAD, robust mean absolute deviation; RMS, root mean squared