Whole-lesion apparent diffusion coefficient histogram analysis: significance in T and N staging of gastric cancers

Table 3 Pairwise comparison of ADC histogram parameters at each individual T and N level

Parameters	T1 vs T2	T1 vs T3	T1 vs T4	T2 vs T3	T2 vs T4	T3 vs T4	N0 vs N1	N0 vs N2	N0 vs N3	N1 vs N2	N1 vs N3	N2 vs N3
ADC_mean	0.821	0.021*	< 0.001*	0.097	0.001*	0.107	0.035*	0.112	0.001*	0.478	0.822	0.110
ADC_min	0.314	0.015*	0.017*	0.369	0.436	0.960	0.068	0.674	0.001*	0.332	0.211	0.024*
ADC_max	0.872	0.385	0.267	0.264	0.245	0.579	0.412	0.159	0.054	0.652	0.866	0.714
ADC_5%	0.314	0.007*	< 0.001*	0.369	0.121	0.257	0.035*	0.012*	0.001*	0.519	0.844	0.429
ADC_10%	0.456	0.007*	< 0.001*	0.102	0.014*	0.171	0.016*	0.014*	0.001*	0.243	1.000	0.445
ADC_25%	0.722	0.010*	< 0.001*	0.063	0.001*	0.088	0.016*	0.055	0.001*	0.365	0.955	0.163
ADC_50%	0.974	0.019*	< 0.001*	0.059	0.001*	0.053	0.024*	0.146	0.001*	0.438	0.866	0.081
ADC_75%	1.000	0.039*	< 0.001*	0.092	0.001*	0.118	0.035*	0.387	0.002*	0.332	0.672	0.104
ADC_90%	0.456	0.035*	0.001*	0.138	0.010*	0.290	0.028*	0.438	0.004*	0.270	0.955	0.172

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