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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2018 Apr 6;48(4):971–981. doi: 10.1002/jmri.26041

Table 2.

Concordance and Reproducibility of the Fra80 and FraGW.

Breast segmentation fat-water decomposition MRI-based breast density Manual segmentation Automated segmentation
Fra80 FraGW Fra80 FraGW
Pearson correlation coefficient with MDc (* P-values < 0.0001)a R= 0.88* R=0.94* R= 0.90* R=0.96*
Test-retest reproducibilityb mean |Δ1–2| 0.0231 0.0149 0.0174 0.0130
standard deviation Δ1–2 0.0282 0.0186 0.0214 0.0146
dynamic range 0.0809~ 0.6483 0.0695~ 0.6896 0.0902~ 0.6601 0.0735~ 0.6696
Mean |Δ1–2|/ dynamic range 4.07% 2.40% 3.05% 2.18%
ICCd [95% confidence interval] 0.9653 [0.9251, 0.9842] 0.9846 [0.9662, 0.9930] 0.9870 [0.9715, 0.9941] 0.9901 [0.9783, 0.9955]
a

correlation analysis was performed using Sample 1

b

test-retest analysis was performed using Sample 2.

c

MD: mammographic density

d

ICC: intra-class correlation coefficient