[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)