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Table 2 Patient characteristics and information on brain metastases

From: Deep learning-based metastasis detection in patients with lung cancer to enhance reproducibility and reduce workload in brain metastasis screening with MRI: a multi-center study

 

Developmental set

Validation set

 
 

Site 1

Site 1

Site 2

P-value

Number of patients

101

123

120

 

Age

61.4 ± 9.2

65.0 ± 9.7

62.6 ± 11.9

0.08

Male Sex

60 (59.4)

68 (55.3)

72 (60)

0.42

BM Number

864

2078

832

 

Average number of BM for each patient

8.6 ± 9.6

8.7 ± 12.2

7.0 ± 6.6

0.015

Patients with > 10 numbers of BM

20 (19.8)

32 (26.0)

19 (16.8)

0.050

Volume and size (mm3) of BM

    

Mean ± SD (volume, mm3)

204.9 ± 811.8

211.5 ± 1406.9

345.7 ± 1569.4

0.024

Mean ± SD (diameter, mm)

4.69 ± 3.57

4.53 ± 3.52

4.45 ± 4.55

0.625

BM numbers less than 5 mm in diameter

689 (79.5)

1697 (81.6)

619 (75.6)

0.378

Primary tumor types

   

0.587

Lung adenocarcinoma

85 (84.2)

115 (93.5)

110 (91.6)

 

Lung squamous cell carcinoma

5 (4.9)

8 (6.5)

10 (8.3)

 

Lung other types of cancer

2 (1.9)

   

Breast cancer

5 (4.9)

   

Colon cancer

2 (1.9)

   

Renal cancer

4 (1.9)

   
  1. Data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation or numbers with percentages in parentheses. P value indicates statistical significance between two hospitals in the validation set
  2. Abbreviation BM = brain metastasis; SD = standard deviation