Table 3 Mean ± standard deviation of the subjective scores by two independent readers for different sequences and different criteria (i.e. LV scar detection, LV scar localization and papillary muscle scar detection) in the human dataset

GB-LGE Score^a

3.58 ± 0.74

3.67 ± 0.60

3.74 ± 0.61

BB-LGE Score^a

3.59 ± 0.69

3.52 ± 0.70

3.59 ± 0.66

Conventional LGE Score^a

2.99 ± 1.02

3.02 ± 0.97

3.08 ± 1.00

Friedman Test (p-value)

< 0.001

< 0.001

< 0.001

BB-LGE vs. LGE^b

0.008

0.004

0.003

GB-LGE vs. LGE^b

< 0.001

< 0.001

< 0.001

GB-LGE vs. BB-LGE^b

0.1

0.024

0.014