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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pract Radiat Oncol. 2013 Oct 1;3(4):3139-e147. doi: 10.1016/j.prro.2013.01.002

Table 2.

Comparison of inter-subject variations for modified contours and manual contours. 3D-DSC and 3D-MSD measure the distance between 9 individual contours and the average contours.

Test no. Modified Contours Manual Contours

3D-DSC (%) 3D-MSD (mm) 3D-DSC (%) 3D-MSD (mm)

Mean ± SD Mean ± SD Mean ± SD Mean ± SD
1 74.7 ± 6.2 1.6 ± 0.3 49.3 ± 11.8 3.4 ± 0.9
2 71.4 ± 3.9 1.4 ± 0.4 45.9 ± 10.9 3.0 ± 0.8
3 72.3 ± 5.3 1.6 ± 0.4 46.5 ± 14.2 3.5 ± 1.0
4 75.0 ± 6.9 1.4 ± 0.4 49.8 ± 10.2 2.7 ± 0.7
5 74.4 ± 7.5 1.6 ± 0.3 49.4 ± 12.1 3.0 ± 1.0
6 75.6 ± 3.3 1.6 ± 0.3 49.0 ± 12.3 3.3 ± 1.2
7 73.4 ± 8.5 1.5 ± 0.3 50.2 ± 13.5 3.2 ± 0.9
8 72.9 ± 4.7 1.7 ± 0.4 47.4 ± 10.8 3.3 ± 0.8
9 71.6 ± 6.0 1.4 ± 0.4 46.8 ± 11.2 3.0 ± 0.9
10 72.6 ± 6.4 1.6 ± 0.4 45.8 ± 11.1 3.5 ± 1.3

Abbreviations: 3D-DSC = three-dimensional Dice similarity coefficient; 3D-MSD = three-dimensional mean surface distance; SD = standard deviation.