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Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2023 Feb 20;68(5):10.1088/1361-6560/acb88e. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/acb88e

Table 2.

Performance of the combined ACR workflow on the MR-SIM and MRL testing sets based on CQC1 (the final results are in bold).

CQC1 Major-error group Minor-error group
initial DLAS contours after ACM-ACR after DL-ACR initial DLAS contours after DL-ACR
MR-SIM
numbers of contours improved to minor-error group N/A 44% (177/401)* 36% (145/401) N/A N/A
numbers of contours improved to acceptable group N/A 5% (22/401) 30% (119/401) N/A 43% (320/750)
DSC 0.33 (±0.15) 0.53 (±0.17) 0.63 (±0.23) 0.71 (±0.10) 0.79 (±0.12)
MDA (mm) 7.78 (±3.02) 6.15 (±3.62) 5.33 (±4.27) 3.65 (±1.55) 3.22 (±2.24)
HD 95% (mm) 20.27 (±8.25) 17.36 (±10.24) 15.59 (±12.19) 13.66 (±6.58) 12.29 (±8.85)
sDSC 0.28 (±0.15) 0.41 (±0.19) 0.51 (±0.25) 0.55 (±0.15) 0.65 (±0.20)
APL (mm) 83.26 (±38.42) 68.70 (±42.88) 57.44 (±45.20) 83.44 (±60.80) 71.79 (±69.53)
MRL
numbers of contours improved to minor-error group numbers of contours N/A 42% (202/485) 35% (172/485) N/A N/A
numbers of contours improved to acceptable group N/A 8% (38/485) 28% (136/485) N/A 36% (267/732)
DSC 0.34 (±0.16) 0.54 (±0.19) 0.62 (±0.25) 0.70 (±0.10) 0.77 (±0.14)
MDA (mm) 9.64 (±5.36) 8.11 (±6.91) 7.37 (±8.23) 4.39 (±1.69) 4.13 (±2.95)
p = 0.009
HD 95% (mm) 26.18 (±14.59) 24.05 (±18.49) 22.18 (±21.68) 17.34 (±7.21) 16.43 (±11.56)
p = 0.017
sDSC 0.29 (±0.14) 0.43 (±0.19) 0.51 (±0.25) 0.57 (±0.14) 0.65 (±0.20)
APL (mm) 101.59 (±47.66) 81.61 (±46.35) 69.30 (±51.01) 83.43 (±67.05) 69.75 (±72.28)

Note: paired t test p values <<0.001 after each ACR step if not listed in the table (see Supplementary materials for the exact p values).

*

among these 177 contours that were improved to minor-error group by ACM-ACR, 87 (49%) were further improved to acceptable contours by DL-ACR.

among these 202 contours that were improved to minor-error group by ACM-ACR, 88 (44%) were further improved to acceptable contours by DL-ACR.