Research Article

Cobb Angle Measurement of Spine from X-Ray Images Using Convolutional Neural Network

Table 5

The statistical data of a MBR Cobb measurement.

VariableObserver (expert)Observer (novice)MBR (proposed method)

Cobb’s angle−0.703 ± 12.552 (−19.8 to 18.4)−0.106 ± 13.582(−21.8 to 22.4)−0.694 ± 12.091(−20.1 to 18.1)
Intrareliability (ICC)0.936 (expert-novice)0.9710 (expert-MBR)0.940 (novice-MBR)
Pearson correlation coefficient0.944 (expert-novice)0.971 (expert-MBR)0.948 (novice-MBR)

Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation with 95% confidence interval and compared using the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).