TABLE 3

Performance Measures of MRI, PET, and PET/MRI Feature Sets for Discriminating Between Tumor and Benign Tissue and Between High-Grade Tumor and Other Tissue

Tumor vs. benign tissueHigh-grade tumor vs. other tissue
MeasureMRIPETPET/MRIMRIPETPET/MRI
Voxel level
 AUC81%83%87%*,79%81%85%*,
 Sensitivity70%76%78%69%74%76%
 Specificity77%78%81%75%77%79%
VOI level
 AUC93%93%96%93%91%93%
 Sensitivity85%83%95%88%85%88%
 Specificity94%86%89%88%86%96%
  • * Significantly different from MRI (P < 0.05).

  • Significantly different from PET (P < 0.05).