In the article entitled “Vascularity Assessment in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: A Prospective Comparative Study with Power Doppler and Superb Microvascular Imaging” (Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. 2026;32(3):315-321; DOI: 10.4274/dir.2025.253311), errors were identified in the Results section of the Abstract and in .
Table 4. Diagnostic performance of cSMI VI
Group (cut-off value) | Sensitivity (CI) % | Specificity (CI) % | PPV (CI) % | NPV (CI) % | PLR (CI) | NLR (CI) | Accuracy (CI) % |
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis vs. Control (6.75)* | 75.34 (63.86-84.68) | 100 (94.56-100) | 100 | 78.57 (71.06-84.56) | - | 0.25 (0.16-0.37) | 87.05 (80.31-92.14) |
Hypothyroid vs. Euthyroid (8.825)** | 89.47 (75.20-97.06) | 94.29 (80.84-99.30) | 94.44 (81.50-98.50) | 89.19 (76.49-95.44) | 15.66 (4.06-60.41) | 0.11 (0.04-0.28) | 91.78 (82.96-96.92) |
Euthyroid vs. Control (4.99)*** | 81.58 (65.67-92.26) | 77.27 (65.3-86.69) | 67.39 (56.37-76.78) | 87.93 (78.65-93.51) | 3.59 (2.24-5.74) | 0.24 (0.12-0.47) | 78.85 (69.74-86.24) |
*AUC: 0.933, CI% (0.894-0.973), Youden’s index: 0.753
**AUC: 0.959, CI% (0.913-1), Youden’s index: 0.838
***AUC: 0.872, CI% (0.802-0.942), Youden’s index: 0.589
cSMI, color superb microvascular imaging; VI, vascularity index; CI, confidence interval; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value; PLR, positive likelihood ratio; NLR, negative likelihood ratio; AUC, area under curve.
Correction 1: Abstract–Results
The following sentence:
“The SMI VI values were recorded at 8.85 [interquartile range (IQR): 25%–75%, 6.55–12.6] for patients with HT and 8.40 (IQR: 25%–75%, 6.70–12.8) for the control group, indicating a statistically significant increase in the HT cohort (P < 0.001).”
should read as follows:
“The SMI VI values in patients with HT were recorded at 8.85% [interquartile range (IQR): 25%–75%, 6.55–12.6%] for the right lobe and 8.40% (IQR: 25%–75%, 6.70–12.8%) for the left lobe, indicating a statistically significant increase compared to the control group values of 3.75% (IQR: 25%–75%, 2.82–5.16%) for the right lobe and 3.97% ± 1.34% for the left lobe (P < 0.001).”
Correction 2:
contained typographical and layout errors. The corrected version of is presented below. In addition, the “Euthyroid vs. Control” comparison has been included.
The authors apologize for these errors and any inconvenience they may have caused.
