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. 2022 Feb;33(2):420–430. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2021030404

Table 4.

Spearman’s correlation coefficients between clinical characteristic and cortical and medullary volumes obtained by manual or AI-based approaches from the test sets combining all three sites.

N=1612 kidney donors Cortical volume Medullary volume
Manual Automated Manual Automated
Characteristic rs P value rs P value P value rs P value rs P value P value
Age, years -0.220 <0.001 -0.246 <0.001 0.002 0.032 0.20 0.087 <0.001 < 0.001
Male 0.529 <0.001 0.517 <0.001 0.11 0.196 <0.001 0.188 <0.001 0.62
Donor’s height, cm 0.519 <0.001 0.511 <0.001 0.28 0.310 <0.001 0.230 <0.001 < 0.001
BMI, kg/m2 0.429 <0.001 0.378 <0.001 < 0.001 0.151 <0.001 0.221 <0.001 < 0.001
Measured GFR (ml/min)* 0.568 <0.001 0.560 <0.001 0.31 0.325 <0.001 0.336 <0.001 0.51
Measured GFR (ml/min/1.73m2)* 0.256 <0.001 0.273 <0.001 0.06 0.170 <0.001 0.155 <0.001 0.39
Estimated GFR (ml/min/1.73m2)¥ 0.276 <0.001 0.309 <0.001 < 0.001 0.062 0.01 -0.020 0.43 < 0.001
Family history of ESRD 0.124 <0.001 0.119 0.02 0.60 0.022 0.42 0.033 0.23 0.54
Hypertension -0.037 0.14 -0.055 0.03 0.04 0.032 0.20 0.049 0.05 0.30
Uric acid, mg/dl 0.356 <0.001 0.340 <0.001 0.05 0.034 0.18 0.054 0.03 0.22
24hr Albumin 0.130 <0.001 0.108 0.003 0.09 0.087 0.02 0.094 0.01 0.77
Glomerular volume** 0.253 <0.001 0.207 <0.001 < 0.001 -0.058 0.06 0.000 0.99 0.004
Mean tubular area** 0.124 0.002 0.100 0.001 0.03 0.024 0.44 0.023 0.46 0.96
% Globally sclerotic glomeruli** -0.071 0.02 -0.079 0.01 0.46 0.010 0.74 -0.009 0.78 0.34
*

Measured GFR available in 1361 donors.

¥

Estimated GFR available in 1604 donors.

Family history of ESRD available in 1339 donors.

Uric acid available in 1581 donors.

24hr Albumin available in 747 donors.

**

Biopsy measures available in 1066 kidney donors.