Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 3 Quantitative and qualitative parameters in malignant and benign soft tissue tumors

From: Qualitative and quantitative parameters of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI as a diagnostic determinant of soft tissue tumor malignancy: a study from Indonesia

	Tumor type		p	AUC of ROC
	Malignant (n = 17)	Benign (n = 13)	p	AUC of ROC
Time intensity curve (TIC)*
Type 1	0 (0%)	1 (7.7%)	0.001
Type 2	2 (11.8%)	12 (92.3%)	0.001
Type 3	5 (29.4%)	0 (0%)	0.001
Type 4	3 (17.6%)	0 (0%)	0.001
Type 5	7 (41.2%)	0 (0%)	0.001
K_trans **
K_trans-1 (min⁻¹)	0.663 (0.350–4.634)	0.117 (0.070–1.296)	0.003	0.819
K_trans-2 (min⁻¹)	0.486 (0.160–4.546)	0.188 (0.780–1.338)	0.001	0.846
K_trans-3 (min⁻¹)	0.680 (0.215–3.470)	0.156 (0.061–1.917)	0.001	0.873
K_ep**
K_ep-1 (min⁻¹)	0.872 (0.227–5.032)	0.270 (0.109–1.302)	0.000	0.889
K_ep-2 (min⁻¹)	0.583 (0.161–20.970)	0.234 (0.106–1.340)	0.003	0.824
K_ep-3 (min⁻¹)	0.704 (0.212–4.903)	0.239 (0.075–2.361)	0.001	0.873
V_e**
V_e-1	0.972 (0.366–1.000)	0.929 (0.252–1.000)	0.340
V_e-2	0.991 (0.278–1.000)	0.947 (0.390–1.000)	0.506
V_e-3	0.996 (0.331–1.000)	0.962 (0.328–1.000)	0.550

*Chi-square test, ** median (minimum–maximum), Mann Whitney test

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