(A) Mean T2 in a region of interest drawn in the deep or
superficial anterior (red), central (blue), or posterior (green)
position on the femoral cartilage on images from 30 patients. Each point
represents a value from a region of interest in a section of the right
knee of one patient. The plots compare the reference multiecho spin-echo
(MESE) T2 estimates of the right knee (x-axis) with the T2 predicted
(pred) by the neural network (y-axis) of the same knee. Solid lines
represent best-fit lines, and dashed lines represent y equal to x.
(B) Root-mean-square differences (RMSD), average
absolute differences (Av abs diff) (top), and coefficients of variation
(CV) (bottom) in the cartilage regions. (C) Typical example
of the different cartilage regions. CNN = convolutional neural network,
DA = deep anterior, DC = deep central, diff = difference, DP = deep
posterior, SA = superficial anterior, SC = superficial central, SP =
superficial posterior.