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. 2020 Feb 14;84(3):1376–1390. doi: 10.1002/mrm.28210

Table 3.

Comparison of manually and automatically extracted relaxation values with Pearson correlation coefficient r coeff and bias measurement per disc for each data set (P‐values, [95% confidence intervals])

  L5S1 L4L5 L3L4 L2L3 L1L2
Data set A          
T r coeff 0.987 (P = 3.0e‐13) 0.998 (P = 3.6e‐20) 0.997 (P = 1.4e‐20) 0.998 (P = 4.5e‐20) 0.995 (P = 1.1e‐14)
T bias (ms) −2.0 (−8.16, 4.07) −0.3 (−2.44, 1.74) −0.5 (−2.33, 1.21) 0.0 (−2.12, 1.99) −0.6 (−3.72, 2.34)
Data set B          
T r coeff 0.969 (P = 4.3e‐11) 0.991 (P = 3.7e‐16) 0.990 (P = 5.1e‐16) 0.993 (P = 3.5e‐17) 0.988 (P = 2.6e‐14)
T bias (ms) −0.4 (−4.92, 4.01) 0.03 (−4.50, 4.56) 0.0 (−4.41, 4.40) 0.41 (−3.31, 4.15) 0.06 (−4.83, 4.96)
T2 r coeff 0.975 (P = 7.1e‐12) 0.984 (P = 3.8e‐14) 0.983 (P = 6.5e‐14) 0.991 (P = 4.0e‐16) 0.979 (P = 1.6e‐12)
T2 bias (ms) −0.2 (−3.63, 3.23) −0.1 (3.86, 3.49) 0.18 (−3.55, 3.92) 0.68 (−2.48, 3.84) 0.10 (−4.18, 4.39)

Biomarker results for additional segmentation experiments are found in Supporting Information Figures S7 and S8.