Fully automated pelvic bone segmentation in multiparameteric MRI using a 3D convolutional neural network

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Table 5 The summary of patient scores on DWI and ADC images

Dataset	Sequences	Reader 1^#			Reader 2^*
Dataset	Sequences	Mean scores	t value	p value	Mean scores	t value	p value
Testing Set	DWI	7.94 ± 1.04	− 1.168	0.248	7.82 ± 1.10	− 1.587	0.118
Testing Set	ADC	8.22 ± 0.78	− 1.168	0.248	8.20 ± 0.83	− 1.587	0.118
External validation	DWI	8.03 ± 0.71	− 1.684	0.095	8.10 ± 0.69	− 1.291	0.199
External validation	ADC	8.26 ± 0.77	− 1.684	0.095	8.23 ± 0.72	− 1.291	0.199

Unless otherwise specified, data are mean ± standard deviations
^#Reader 1 refers to a radiology expert with more than 15 years of reading experience
^*Reader 2 refers to a radiology resident with 3 years of reading experience