Study of detection times for liver stiffness evaluation by shear wave elastography

Table 4 Comparison of area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of the elastic modulus of the liver obtained from different valid measurements of shear wave elastography at different pathological stages

Different VMs	F0-1234		F01-234		F012-34		F0123-4
	Difference	P	Difference	P	Difference	P	Difference	P
1 VM vs 2 VMs	0.001	0.618	0.008	0.323	0.003	0.703	0.010	0.267
1 VM vs 3 VMs	0.003	0.917	0.011	0.321	0.006	0.57	0.015	0.171
1 VM vs 5 VMs	0.009	0.800	0.005	0.682	0.012	0.297	0.022	0.068
1 VM vs 10 VMs	0.032	0.365	0.004	0.787	0.013	0.379	0.030	0.089
2 VMs vs 3 VMs	0.006	0.785	0.003	0.617	0.003	0.595	0.004	0.477
2 VMs vs 5 VMs	0.018	0.420	0.003	0.704	0.009	0.208	0.012	0.152
2 VMs vs 10 VMs	0.042	0.152	0.012	0.415	0.010	0.475	0.020	0.212
3 VMs vs 5 VMs	0.012	0.487	0.006	0.227	0.005	0.208	0.007	0.152
3 VMs vs 10 VMs	0.035	0.073	0.015	0.245	0.007	0.609	0.015	0.302
5 VMs vs 10 VMs	0.023	0.451	0.009	0.461	0.002	0.900	0.008	0.538

VMs: Valid measurements.