Table 8.

Comparison of the proposed algorithm segmentations initialized by different observers

Metrics	Algorithm1 — Manual	Algorithm2 — manual	Algorithm1 — Algorithm2
DSCMAB (%)	95.77 ± 0.20	95.52 ± 1.75	96.14 ± 1.87
MADMAB (mm)	0.25 ± 0.12	0.26 ± 0.10	0.23 ± 0.12
MAXDMAB (mm)	0.79 ± 0.42	0.81 ± 0.73	0.81 ± 0.41
∆MABV (%)	0.31 ± 2.40	0.07 ± 2.36	0.20 ± 3.11
|∆MABV| (%)	1.74 ± 1.62	1.78 ± 1.49	2.66 ± 1.51

DSC, dice similarity coefficients; MAXD, maximum absolute distance; MABV, media‐adventitia boundary volume.

Algorithm1: Results of the proposed method using initial points placed by Observer R. Z. Algorithm1: Results of the proposed method using initial points placed by Observer Y. X. Manual: results of manual segmentation.