Research Article

Fully Automated Lumen Segmentation Method for Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography

Table 4

Statistical comparison of parameters between our methodology and another commercially available system 2.

Our method (first measure) mean (CI)System 2 (second measure) mean (CI)Our method (first measure) median (IQR)System 2 (second measure) median (IQR)DifferenceRelative differenceICC (95% CI)ICC value

Lumen area5.99 (5.83–6.14)5.76 (5.61–5.92)6.45 (4.72–7.67)6.13 (3.98–7.48)0.22 (0.18–0.27)−4.23% (−4.88% to −3.57%)0.95 (0.93–0.97)<0.0001
Mean lumen diameter2.72 (2.68–2.76)2.66 (2.61–2.70)2.88 (2.41–3.13)2.79 (2.25–3.09)0.06 (0.05–0.07)−2.42% (−2.85% to −1.99%)0.94 (0.92–0.96)<0.0001
Minimal lumen diameter2.52 (2.48–2.56)2.42 (2.37–2.46)2.64 (2.18–2.96)2.56 (2.01–2.91)0.10 (0.09–0.12)−4.96% (−5.53% to −4.39%)0.95 (0.85–0.97)<0.0001
Maximal lumen diameter2.91 (2.87–2.96)2.87 (2.83–2.91)3.07 (2.54–3.30)3.00 (2.50–3.26)0.04 (0.02–0.06)−1.11% (−1.58% to −0.63%)0.89 (0.88–0.91)<0.0001