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Table 6 Mann Whitney U pairwise comparisons between image sets

From: Post-reconstruction enhancement of [18F]FDG PET images with a convolutional neural network

Pairwise comparisons

p values

Reader 1 noise

Reader 1 contrast

Reader 2 noise

Reader 2 contrast

Reader 3 noise

Reader 1 contrast

4 min–1.5 min

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

4 min–1.5 min CNN

0.002

0.728

0.184

0.368

0.080

0.161

4 min–1 min

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

4 min–1 min CNN

0.015

0.031

0.716

0.009

0.706

0.005

1.5 min–1.5 min CNN

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.001

1.5 min–1 min

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.004

 < 0.001

0.015

1.5 min–1 min CNN

0.009

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.013

 < 0.001

0.009

1.5 min CNN–1 min

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

1.5 min CNN–1 min CNN

 < 0.001

0.006

0.114

0.078

0.65

0.192

1 min–1 min CNN

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

  1. Significant p value is < 0.005 after Bonferroni correction