Table 3 Kurtosis and skewness of tortuosity metrics studied in 127 left main bifurcations and LAD and LCx branches.
From: Accuracy of vascular tortuosity measures using computational modelling
Metric | LMCA | LAD | LCX | Whole bifurcation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kurtosis | Skew | Kurtosis | Skew | Kurtosis | Skew | Kurtosis | Skew | |
Tortuosity index | 10.13 | 2.71 | 8.06 | 2.53 | 10.18 | 2.9 | 9.46 | 2.71 |
Average-curvature | 2.38 | 1.12 | 1.43 | 1.02 | 0.64 | 0.91 | 1.49 | 1.02 |
RMS-curvature | 20.65 | 3.76 | 1.99 | 1.21 | 0.21 | 0.67 | 7.62 | 1.88 |
Average squared-derivative-curvature | 63.25 | 7.68 | 1.52 | 1.29 | 0.51 | 1.0 | 21.76 | 3.32 |
