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Table 3 Comparison of two segmentation methods

From: The prognostic value of 18F-FDG PET/CT intra-tumoural metabolic heterogeneity in pretreatment neuroblastoma patients

Variable

Value

Z

P

r

P

MTV

  

-5.303

<0.001*

0.821

<0.001*

 

MTV40%

121.62 (52.95, 220.37)

    
 

MTVtotal

236.35 (132.94, 354.86)

    

TLG

  

-5.303

<0.001*

0.935

<0.001*

 

TLG40%

304.89 (133.32, 517.74)

    
 

TLGtotal

442.85 (237.40, 713.71)

    

AUC-CSH

  

-4.971

<0.001*

0.630

<0.001*

 

AUC-CSH40%

0.561±0.481

    
 

AUC-CSHtotal

0.463±0.098

    
  1. MTV metabolic tumour volume, TLG total lesion glycolysis, AUC-CSH areas under the curve of cumulative SUV-volume histogram, *P < 0.05