Table 3. Reliability Between Parameters Extracted from Semi-Automatic Segmentation and Fully Automatic Segmentation.
All (n = 89) | Subgroup (n = 55) | ||
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Volume | 0.971 (0.956–0.981) | 0.982 (0.969–0.990) | |
Diameter | 0.932 (0.896–0.955) | 0.958 (0.928–0.976) | |
First-order | |||
Mean | 0.967 (0.949–0.978) | 0.958 (0.927–0.975) | |
Variance | 0.744 (0.611–0.832) | 0.786 (0.631–0.875) | |
Energy | 0.899 (0.846–0.934) | 0.904 (0.835–0.944) | |
Entropy | 0.841 (0.758–0.895) | 0.871 (0.779–0.925) | |
Skewness | 0.407 (0.095–0.611) | 0.446 (0.049–0.677) | |
Kurtosis | 0.455 (0.171–0.641) | 0.207 (−0.345–0.534) | |
Uniformity | 0.827 (0.736–0.886) | 0.874 (0.786–0.927) | |
Second-order | |||
GLCM IDM | 0.980 (0.966–0.987) | 0.987 (0.977–0.997) | |
GLCM contrast | 0.967 (0.930–0.982) | 0.966 (0.931–0.982) | |
GLCM correlation | 0.706 (0.552–0.807) | 0.756 (0.590–0.859) | |
GLCM sum average | 0.715 (0.567–0.812) | 0.529 (0.204–0.723) | |
GLCM diff average | 0.978 (0.961–0.987) | 0.983 (0.969–0.991) | |
GLCM sum entropy | 0.828 (0.739–0.887) | 0.864 (0.767–0.921) | |
GLCM diff entropy | 0.960 (0.909–0.979) | 0.968 (0.927–0.984) | |
Shape | |||
Compactness1 | 0.293 (−0.080–0.537) | 0.520 (0.192–0.717) | |
Compactness2 | 0.215 (−0.201–0.486) | 0.523 (0.197–0.718) | |
Elongation | 0.562 (0.332–0.713) | 0.775 (0.615–0.869) | |
Flatness | 0.638 (0.449–0.762) | 0.792 (0.614–0.884) | |
Sphericity | 0.314 (−0.047–0.550) | 0.515 (0.185–0.714) |
Data are intraclass correlation coefficient values with 95% confidence interval in parentheses. Subgroup analysis was performed after excluding 34 tumors with ill-defined margins.
diff = difference, GLCM = Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix, IDM = inverse difference moment