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. 2020 Oct;10(10):1994–2005. doi: 10.21037/qims-20-340

Table 1. Agreement among the four scans for each parameter measured using each of the six thresholding strategies.

Quantitative parameter Thresholding strategy ICC (95% CI)
N. FD G. Otsu 0.909 (0.820-0.960)
G. Mean 0.852 (0.730-0.983)
G. Default 0.904 (0.818-0.958)
L. Mean 0.925 (0.856-0.968)
L. Phansalkar 0.964 (0.928-0.985)
L. Niblack 0.955 (0.910-0.981)
FD area G. Otsu 0.880 (0.777-0.947)
G. Mean 0.115 (–0.064-0.395)
G. Default 0.838 (0.707-0.927)
L. Mean 0.880 (0.777-0.947)
L. Phansalkar 0.937 (0.877-0-973)
L. Niblack 0.881 (0.777-0.948)
FD average size G. Otsu 0.771 (0.605-0.894)
G. Mean 0.627 (0.412-0.813)
G. Default 0.684 (0.484-0.847)
L. Mean 0.825 (0.687-0.921)
L. Phansalkar 0.850 (0.727-0.933)
L. Niblack 0.843 (0.716-0.930)
FD density G. Otsu 0.873 (0.763-0.944)
G. Mean 0.786 (0.618-0.902)
G. Default 0.833 (0.699-0.925)
L. Mean 0.879 (0.774-0.946)
L. Phansalkar 0.917 (0.840-0.964)
L. Niblack 0.974 (0.946-0.989)

Values presented correspond to ICC. ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient; G., global; L., local; N., number; CI, confidence interval; FD, flow deficits.