Research Article

Automatic Spine Tissue Segmentation from MRI Data Based on Cascade of Boosted Classifiers and Active Appearance Model

Table 5

The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) of the vertebral bodies area determined by experts and computer, for average measurements with the .

Computer Expert 1 Expert 2 Expert 3 Expert 4 Expert 5

Computer 0.9370 0.9558 0.8485 0.8379 0.9547
Expert 1 0.9370 0.9713 0.9339 0.9260 0.9296
Expert 2 0.9558 0.9713 0.9317 0.9302 0.9619
Expert 3 0.8485 0.9339 0.9317 0.9789 0.8783
Expert 4 0.8379 0.9260 0.9302 0.9789 0.8681
Expert 5 0.9547 0.9296 0.9619 0.8783 0.8681