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Table 5 Inter-study variability in the patient group

From: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance myocardial feature tracking using a non-rigid, elastic image registration algorithm: assessment of variability in a real-life clinical setting

Inter-study

#

Bias

LOA

CV

CR

ICC (95% CI)

Expert

Global

ErrSAX

86

−2.25*

[−13.7;9.2]

23.7

±16.2

0.91 (0.85–0.95)

EccSAX

86

−0.31

[−7.0;6.3]

27.1

±9.3

0.83 (0.75–0.89)

EllLAX

18

0.04

[−2.9;3.0]£

12.3

±4.2

0.95 (0.87–0.98)

Segm.

ErrSAX

470

−2.33*

[−21.7;17.0]

39.5

±27.3

0.86 (0.83–0.89)

EccSAX

470

−0.16

[−10.7;10.3]£

40.7

±14.8

0.80 (0.76–0.83)

EllLAX

126

−0.14

[−10.5;10.2]

41.7

±14.6

0.79 (0.71–0.85)

Skilled Observer

Global

ErrSAX

86

−2.36*

[−13.1;8.4]

22.5

±15.2

0.92 (0.86–0.95)

EccSAX

86

−0.12

[−6.4;6.2]

24.9

±8.9

0.88 (0.82–0.92)

EllLAX

18

−0.16*

[−3.1;2.8]

11.7

±4.2

0.94 (0.86–0.98)

Segm.

ErrSAX

470

−2.53*

[−19.8;14.7]$

35.6

±24.4

0.88 (0.85–0.91)

EccSAX

470

0.01

[−6.9;8.5]

33.4

±12.0

0.86 (0.83–0.88)

EllLAX

126

−0.18

[−12.9;12.5]$

48.7

±17.9

0.66 (0.54–0.74)

Beginner

Global

ErrSAX

86

−2.41*

[−14.0;9.2]

24.1

±16.4

0.91 (0.84–0.94)

EccSAX

86

−0.69

[−6.1;6.6]

26.3

±10.3

0.84 (0.76–0.89)

EllLAX

18

−0.49

[−4.4;3.4]£

15.8

±5.5

0.90 (0.74–0.96)

Segm.

ErrSAX

470

−2.47*

[−23.1;18.1]£

37.4

±29.1

0.86 (0.83–0.88)

EccSAX

470

−0.65

[−12.0;10.7]£

43.0

±16.0

0.71 (0.67–0.74)

EllLAX

126

−0.35

[−12.4;11.7]£

48.2

±17.0

0.77 (0.65–0.85)

  1. # - Sample Size, LOA Limits of agreement; CV Coefficient of variation (#); CR Coefficient of repeatability; ICC Intraclass correlation coefficient
  2. *p < 0.05, two tailed paired t-test against zero
  3. $ p < 0.05, two tailed F-test between Expert versus Skilled observer variability
  4. £ p < 0.05, two tailed F-test between Expert versus Beginner variability