Table 2.
Correlation and variation of manual counting results between different examiners as compared to automated counting
| Manual Counting | Automated Counting | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | |||||||
| R 2 | RMS | R 2 | RMS | R 2 | RMS | R 2 | RMS | R 2 | RMS | |
| P1 | 0.9940 | 3.8 | 0.9883 | 4.3 | 0.9890 | 3.1 | 0.9951 | 1.1 | 0.9860 | 2.5 |
| P2 | 0.9931 | 1.1 | 0.9912 | 1.6 | 0.9925 | 3.6 | 0.9824 | 2.9 | ||
| P3 | 0.9916 | 1.8 | 0.9867 | 4.1 | 0.9805 | 3.1 | ||||
| P4 | 0.9879 | 2.9 | 0.9742 | 2.1 | ||||||
| P5 | 0.9848 | 2.6 | ||||||||
The R2 values are obtained using Pearson's test, all p values are < 0.0001. RMS values are the root-mean-square values of the differences. P1 to P5 represent the five experimenters who counted the slides.