Research Article

Fully Automated Lumen Segmentation Method for Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography

Table 2

Statistical comparison of the parameters between our methodology and manual analyses by analyst (ground truth).

Our method (first measure) mean (CI)Ground truth (second measure) mean (CI)Our method (first measure) median (IQR)Ground truth (second measure) median (IQR)DifferenceRelative differenceICC (95% CI)ICC value

Lumen area5.99 (5.83–6.14)5.89 (5.74–6.04)6.45 (4.72–7.67)6.29 (4.67–7.50)0.10 (0.06–0.13)−1.12% (−1.55% to −0.68%)0.97 (0.97–0.98)<0.0001
Mean lumen diameter2.72 (2.68–2.76)2.68 (2.64–2.72)2.88 (2.41–3.13)2.82 (2.43–3.09)0.03 (0.02–0.04)−1.15% (−1.48% to −0.83%)0.96 (0.95–0.97)<0.0001
Minimal lumen diameter2.52 (2.48–2.56)2.49 (2.45–2.53)2.64 (2.18–2.96)2.61 (2.10–2.93)0.03 (0.02–0.03)−1.11% (−1.44% to −0.78%)0.98 (0.98–0.98)<0.0001
Maximal lumen diameter2.91 (2.87–2.96)2.88 (2.84–2.92)3.07 (2.54–3.30)3.01 (2.58–3.25)0.04 (0.02–0.05)−0.81% (−1.23% to −0.39%)0.91 (0.89–0.92)<0.0001