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) |
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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.