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Table 4 Diagnostic performance of DKI metrics for assessing the degrees of renal dysfunction

From: Renal functional and interstitial fibrotic assessment with non-Gaussian diffusion kurtosis imaging

 

Youden index

Cutoff value

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

AUC

95% CI

MK

 Cortex

0.414

0.470

63.20

78.30

0.719

0.560–0.877

 Medulla

0.336

0.476

68.40

65.20

0.652

0.483–0.821

Ka

 Cortex

0.519

0.469

73.70

78.30

0.785

0.638–0.931

 Medulla

0.643

0.461

94.70

69.60

0.828

0.698–0.959

Kr

 Cortex

0.281

0.462

36.80

91.30

0.533

0.346–0.721

 Medulla

0.133

0.487

26.30

87.00

0.526

0.346–0.707

MD

 Cortex

0.492

1.783

91.30

57.90

0.769

0.618–0.920

 Medulla

0.467

1.779

78.30

68.40

0.731

0.575–0.887

FA

 Cortex

0.352

0.203

82.60

52.60

0.660

0.492–0.829

 Medulla

0.650

0.249

91.30

73.70

0.851

0.732–0.971

  1. AUC area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, CI confidence interval