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. 2019 Dec 9;49(1):20190107. doi: 10.1259/dmfr.20190107

Table 3.

List of the performance reported in the studies included regarding automatic localization of cephalometric landmarks

Author (year) Automatic localization Manual localization
Mean deviation (SD) or median deviation (IQR) on all landmarks/measurements Range of the deviation on all landmarks/measurements Successful localization rates based on different precision ranges Mean deviation (SD) on all landmarks/measurements Range of the deviation on all landmarks/measurements
Rudolph48 (1998) 3.07 mm (3.09 mm) 1.85 mm-5.67 mm NA 3.09 mm (4.76 mm) 1.99 mm-4.93 mm
Liu49 (2000) 2.86 mm (1.24 mm) 0.94 mm-5.28 mm NA 1.48 mm (0.59 mm) 0.63 mm-2.57 mm
Hutton50 (2000) 4.09 mm 2.7 mm-7.3 mm 13% (deviation <1 mm);
35% (deviation <2 mm);
74% (deviation <5 mm)
NA NA
Grau51 (2001) 1.1 mm 0.39 mm-1.92 mm NA NA NA
Rueda52 (2006) 2.48 mm (1.66 mm) 1.52 mm-3.88 mm 50.04% (deviation <2 mm);
72.62% (deviation <3 mm);
91.44% (deviation <5 mm)
NA NA
Sommer75 (2009) 1.26 ° /semi-automatic
8.00 ° /fully automatic
0.53 °−3.35 ° /semi-automatic
2.83 °−15.00 ° /fully automatic
NA NA NA
Leonardi53 (2009) NA 0.003 mm-0.596 mm NA NA NA
Vucinic54 (2010) 1.68 mm 1.07 mm-3.27 mm 28% (deviation <1 mm);
61% (deviation <2 mm);
95% (deviation <5 mm)
0.49 mm 0.14 mm-1.07 mm
Cheng65 (2011) 3.15 mm 0.84 mm-6.27 mm NA NA NA
Shahidi55 (2013) 2.59 mm (3.45 mm) 1.71 mm-4.44 mm 12.5% (deviation <1 mm);
43.75% (deviation <2 mm);
93.75% (deviation <4 mm);
100% (deviation <5 mm)
NA NA
Shahidi58 (2014) 3.40 mm 3.00 mm-3.86 mm 63.57% (deviation <3 mm) 1.41 mm 0.59 mm-2.15 mm
Gupta59 (2015) 2.01 mm (1.23 mm) 1.17 mm-3.20 mm 64.67% (deviation <2 mm);
82.67% (deviation <3 mm);
90.33% (deviation <4 mm)
NA NA
Gupta60 (2016) 1.60 mm /3 landmarks
1.28 mm /28 linear measurements
0.94 ° /16 angular measurements
1.52 mm-1.70 mm /3 landmarks
0.46 mm-2.63 mm /28 linear measurements
0.37 °−2.12 ° /16 angular measurements
NA NA NA
Lindner56 (2016) 1.20 mm (0.06 mm) 0.65 mm-2.69 mm 84.70% (deviation <2 mm);
89.38% (deviation <2.5 mm);
92.62% (deviation <3 mm)
96.30% (deviation <4 mm)
NA NA
Arik57 (2017) NA NA 67.68–75.58% (deviation <2 mm);
74.16–81.26% (deviation <2.5 mm);
79.11–84.68% (deviation <3 mm)
84.63–88.25% (deviation <4 mm)
NA NA
Codari61 (2017) 1.99 mm (1.22 mm, 2.89 mm) 1.40 mm-4.00 mm 63% (deviation <2.5 mm);
90% (deviation <5 mm)
NA NA
Montufar62 (2018) 3.64 mm (1.43 mm) 1.62 mm-9.72 mm NA NA NA
Montufar63 (2018) 2.51 mm (1.60 mm) 1.46 mm-3.72 mm NA NA NA
Neelapu64 (2018) 1.88 mm (1.10 mm) 0.95 mm-3.78 mm 63.53% (deviation <2 mm);
85.29% (deviation <3 mm);
93.92% (deviation <4 mm)
NA NA

IQR, interquartile range; NA, not available; SD, standard deviation.