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Table 3 Number of lesions detected by observer and by reconstruction

From: Impact of the Bayesian penalized likelihood algorithm (Q.Clear®) in comparison with the OSEM reconstruction on low contrast PET hypoxic images

DS

OBS1

OBS2

OBS3

OBS4

OBS5

OBS6

OBS7

OBS8

OBS9

OBS10

OSEM

33

36

35

34

28

31

33

29

33

37

BPL

33

34

32

30

31

33

32

28

32

37

Cochran’s p value

1

0.157

0.083

0.046

0.18

0.317

0.655

0.705

0.317

x

kappa

0.77

0.69

0.68

0.66

0.64

0.62

0.47

0.51

0.90

1

  1. OSEM ordered subset expectation maximization, BPL Bayesian penalized likelihood algorithm