Towards More Structure: Comparing TNM Staging Completeness and Processing Time of Text-Based Reports versus Fully Segmented and Annotated PET/CT Data of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Table 2

Segmentation time versus structured reporting time.

	Segmentation time (min)	Study population (NSCLC)		Simulation (miscellaneous oncological indications)
		R1 (min)	R2 (min)	R1 (min)	R2 (min)
Mean	25.0	31.0	181.8	29.0	154.2
Standard deviation	30.9	38.2	137.2	18.7	96.5
CI	21.9–28.0	24.0–38.0	164.6–198.9	25.6–32.4	142.1–166.3
Min	0.9	1.0	3.0	0.4	0.3
Median	16.3	18.1	151.6	26.6	146.1
Max	326.0	226.0	792.9	92.9	464.4

The descriptive statistics for the collected and simulated data in minutes are shown. Including additional lesions. CI = confidence interval; R1 = lower estimator of the text-based reporting time; R2 = upper estimator of the text-based reporting time.