ArticleScientific reports2020
Reliability of pre-operative diffusion tensor imaging parameter measurements of the cervical spine in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy.
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- A systematic review of repeatability and reproducibility studies of diffusion tensor imaging of cervical spinal cord.The British journal of radiology · 2023Pooled it
- Test-Retest Reliability and Inter-Scanner Reproducibility of Improved Spinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Nomogram for predicting the postoperative outcomes in cervical spondylotic myelopathy based on apparent diffusion coefficient.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2025Article
- Deep Learning-Based Auto-Segmentation of Spinal Cord Internal Structure of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Correlation between Functional Connectivity of the Primary Somatosensory Cortex and Cervical Spinal Cord Microstructural Injury in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy.Disease markers · 2022Article
- Correlations between preoperative diffusion tensor imaging and surgical outcome in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy.American journal of translational research · 2021Article
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Abstract
The present study assessed test-retest and inter-observer reliability of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM), as well as the agreement among measurement methods. A total 34 patients (12 men, 22 women; mean age, 58.7 [range 45-79] years) who underwent surgical decompression for CSM, with pre-operative DTI scans available, were retrospectively enrolled. Four observers independently measured fractional anisotropy (FA) values twice, using three different measurement methods. Test-retest and inter-observer reliability was assessed using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). Overall, inter-observer agreements varied according to spinal cord level and the measurement methods used, and ranged from poor to excellent agreement (ICC = 0.374-0.821), with relatively less agreement for the sagittal region of interest (ROI) method. The radiology resident and neuro-radiologist group showed excellent test-retest reliability at almost every spinal cord level (ICC = 0.887-0.997), but inter-observer agreements varied from fair to good (ICC = 0.404-0.747). Despite excellent test-retest reliability of the ROI measurements, FA measurements in patients with CSM varied widely in terms of inter-observer reliability. Therefore, DTI parameter data should be interpreted carefully when applied clinically.
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