Comparing (46) with (36) and (45) with (7) reveals that the MSE of the estimated equivalent two-hop channel coefficients for protocol B1 can easily be derived from (41).
If channel coefficients tend to symmetric-channel coefficients, then TDBC protocol has a poor performance compared with the MABC.
Inter-protocol coefficient of multiple correlation (ipCMD) was used to evaluate the overall similarities between the waveforms of the two methods [14,15].
To determine reproducibility of the new protocol coefficients of variation (CV) for met-acarpal bone measurements were calculated as root-mean-square (RMS) averages of standard deviations [ 22] including all four measurements of all nine subjects.
By solving modified discrete-time algebraic Riccati equation and using a multi-step algorithm, we design proper gain matrix and gain coefficient used in the protocol.
Moreover, high reproducibility within a given protocol (correlation coefficient of about 0.95) was observed for amplifications that were carried out in two different laboratories by two different operators.
Also, the virtual correlation coefficients between different protocols are high (average 0.95), suggesting that slight differences in protocols based on T7 linear amplification mechanism do not affect the correlation of amplified samples to unamplified samples.
The Gaussian filters aligning the recovery coefficients for each reconstruction protocol to the reference have been applied prior to automatic delineation and the results compared to those generated with no additional filtering.
Cross tabulation of the number of men in each Gleason score obtained for the TAR biopsies against the scores obtained for the STD biopsies is presented in Table 5. Agreement weighted Cohen's kappa coefficient between the two protocols to determine the Gleason score was 0.57 (95% 0.29 0.71%).
Apart from the effort to measure all channel coefficients, the four protocols differ in the quality of the channel estimates they deliver in the presence of noise.
