Table 4.
Mean occurrence frequency and inter-rater concordance of each criterion of the CS in the left and right hemispheres.
Criteria | Variations | Left hemisphere | Right hemisphere | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean (%) | κ | Mean (%) | κ | ||
Interruptions | Continuous | 97 | 1 | 97 | 1 |
Inferior end | Extension into the SF | 13 | 0.96 | 17 | 0.92 |
Anterior direction | 40 | 0.86 | 53 | 0.79 | |
Posterior direction | 60 | 0.86 | 47 | 0.79 | |
Straight shape | 100 | 0.82 | 90 | 0.94 | |
“Y” shape | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0.95 | |
“T” shape | 0 | 0.91 | 0 | 1 | |
Superior end | Extension into the medial surface | 57 | 0.80 | 50 | 0.80 |
Straight shape | 100 | 1 | 93 | 0.94 | |
“Y” shape | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.95 | |
“T” shape | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.95 | |
Side branches | Over precentral gyrus | ||||
0 | 67 | 67 | |||
1 | 27 | 20 | |||
2 | 3 | 0.77 | 10 | 0.77 | |
3 | 3 | 3 | |||
4 | 0 | 0 | |||
Over postcentral gyrus | |||||
0 | 85 | 83 | |||
1 | 13 | 17 | |||
2 | 2 | 0.88 | 0 | 0.84 | |
3 | 0 | 0 | |||
4 | 0 | 0 | |||
Connections | With precentral sulcus | 27 | 0.92 | 10 | 0.95 |
With postcentral sulcus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
With small free sulcus in preC gyrus | 0 | 0.95 | 7 | 0.95 |
Sulcal criteria with high inter-rater concordance (κ > 0.8) are shown in bold font. Measures with a significant difference between in vivo and ex vivo data values (p-value < 0.05) are underlined. preC, precentral.