Accuracy and precision of manual segmentation of the maxillary sinus in MR images—a method study

Objective:To assess the accuracy and precision of segmentation of the maxillary sinus in MR images to evaluate the potential usefulness of this modality in longitudinal studies of sinus development.Methods:A total of 15 healthy subjects who had been both craniofacial CT and MR scanned were included and the 30 maxillary sinus volumes were evaluated using segmentation. Two of the authors did segmentation of MRI and one of these authors did double segmentation. Agreement in results between CT and MRI as well as inter- and intraexaminer errors were evaluated by statistical and 3D analysis.Results:The ICC for volume measurements for both method error, inter- and intraexaminer agreement were >0.9 (maximal 95% CI of 0.989–0.997, p 0.9= excellent agreement) and border distance (95% percentile Hausdorff Distance < 2 mm = acceptable agreement). The results were replicab...