Figure 5.
Bland-Altman plots comparing the K-means and binning analyses of the original high-SNR scans for 29 subjects. One plot is dedicated to each class of ventilation distribution — ventilation defect percentage (VDP), low ventilation percentage (LVP), medium ventilation percentage (MVP), and high ventilation percentage (HVP). These results show only modest bias between binning and adaptive K-means for VDP (+1.5%) and HVP (−4.0%), but more substantial biases for LVP (−5.7%) and MVP (+8.1%). The limits of agreement between the two methods were 0.5% to 13.4% for MVP, while LVP showed the broadest range from −11.7% to +1.9%.
