Optical imaging of the breast: evaluation of deoxyhemoglobin concentration alteration in 166 patients with suspicious breast lesions

European Radiology Experimental

Table 8 Diagnostic performance of DeHCA score plus mammography linear combination and of DeHCA score plus US linear combination

	Area under the curve	Sensitivity	Specificity	Positive predictive value	Negative predictive value	Accuracy
To discriminate breast disease versus negative cases
DeHCA plus mammography	0.78	0.72	0.96	0.94	0.78	0.84
DeHCA plus US	0.93	0.94	0.96	0.96	0.94	0.95
To detect malignant lesions
DeHCA plus mammography	0.73	0.93	0.82	0.89	0.87	0.73
DeHCA plus US	0.96	0.92	0.81	0.98	0.93	0.96