Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Effectiveness of Quantitative Shear Wave Elastography for the Prediction of Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis

Table 3

Comparison of diagnostic performances of BUS and SWE.


Parameters	AUC (95% CI)	value (compared with BUS)

BUS	0.7230 (0.6379,0.8081)
E_max	0.8167 (0.7512,0.8821)	0.0574
E_mean	0.7929 (0.7165,0.8692)	0.1913
E_min	0.7230 (0.6379,0.8081)	1.0000
E_mean-m	0.8183 (0.7455,0.8910)	0.0768
BUS + E_max	0.7762 (0.6971,0.8553)	0.0208
BUS + E_mean	0.7460 (0.6659,0.8261)	0.4756
BUS + E_min	0.7127 (0.6318,0.7936)	0.7756
BUS + E_mean-m	0.7786 (0.7024,0.8548)	0.0849

BUS, B-mode ultrasound category; SWE, shear wave elastography; AUC, area under the curve; CI, confidence interval; value is for parameter compared with the ultrasound category; E_max, maximal elasticity score of the lesion; E_mean, mean elasticity score of the lesion; E_min, minimal elasticity score of the lesion; E_mean-m, ratio of E_mean mean of the lesions divided by E_mean of surrounding muscles; BUS + E_max, combined use of E_max and BUS; BUS + E_mean, combined use of E_mean and BUS; BUS + E_min, combined use of E_min and BUS; BUS + E_mean-m, combined use of E_mean-m and BUS.