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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Methods Clin Appl Musculoskelet Imaging (2017). 2018 Jan 10;10734:25–35. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-74113-0_3

Table 1.

Comparison of tissue area estimation by the proposed method and Zhang et al. [8] on 40 L3 axial slices.

Tissue Skeletal
Muscle		 Psoas
Muscle		 VAT SAT
Manual area (cm2) 142.7±35.0 15.6±5.9 168.4±97.5 224.6±126.5
Proposed Dice 0.854±0.110 0.740±0.259 0.887±0.075 0.933±0.046
Proposed area error (cm2) 17.1±14.9 4.5±7.1 12.0±14.0 15.5±14.4
Zhang [8] Dice 0.758±0.128 – 0.828±0.054 0.852±0.054
Zhang [8] area error (cm2) 46.8±27.7 – 46.6±22.1 44.0±21.7
Proposed v.s. Zhang [8] Dice p-value 3.3×10−5 – 2.4×10−5 5.6×10−8
Proposed v.s. Zhang [8] area error p-value 3.8×10−6 – 7.6×10−7 1.6×10−6