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. 2015 Jun 29;3:1900410. doi: 10.1109/JTEHM.2015.2450735

TABLE 1. An Overview of Manual and Automated IMT Measurement Studies for the Left and Right CCA in Normal and Cardiovascular Disease Groups.

Study Year Method N Left CCA mean(std) (mm) Right CCA mean(std) (mm) p-value
Manual Auto Manual Auto Manual Auto
Normal Group
Bots [11] 1997 Manual 1500 0.79(0.21) - 0.78(0.22) - 0.65 -
Schmidt [15] 1998 Manual/automated 50 0.88(0.25) 0.85(0.19) 0.86(0.24) 0.84(0.20) 0.43 0.49
Willekes [12] 1999 Manual/Ultramark 16 0.52(0.46) 0.49(0.45) 0.55 (0.42) 0.51(0.64) 0.55 0.83
Sun [8] 2002 Manual B-mode 1781 0.68(0.12) - 0.66(0.12) - 0.0004 -
Rodriquez [7] 2003 Manual B-mode 102 0.75(0.11) - 0.71(0.11) - 0.001 -
Arbel [6] 2007 -/M’ATH 98 - 0.625(0.078) - 0.626(0.075) - 0.884
Luo [9] 2011 QIMT 447 0.49(0.09) - 0.47(0.09) - - 0.002
This study 2014 Manual/automated 976 0.74(0.20) 0.73(0.20) 0.70(0.17) 0.69(0.19) 0.56 0.77
CVD Group
Bots [11] 1997 Manual 60 1.23(1.03) - 1.29(1.08) - 0.42 -
Willekes [12] 1999 Manual/Ultramark 13 0.74(0.74) 0.71(0.46) 0.73(0.61) 0.73(0.69) 0.67 0.03
Vicenzini [30] 2007 Manual 1655 - 0.97(0.21) - 0.95(0.19) - 0.001
Lee [10] 2011 Manual 149 0.83(0.24) - 0.83(0.21) - 0.72 -
This study 2014 Manual/automated 125 0.87(0.24) 0.86(0.23) 0.80(0.18) 0.81 (0.18) 0.02 0.04

CVD: Cardiovascular events; N: Number of cases investigated; significantly (shown underlined) and non-significantly different at Inline graphic and Inline graphic respectively.