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A Vaginal Tactile Imager (VTI) was used to acquire and automatically calculate 52 biomechanical parameters for eight VTI test procedures (probe insertion, elevation, rotation, Valsalva maneuver, voluntary muscle contractions in two planes, relaxation, and reflex contraction). Statistical methods were applied (<jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic> test, correlation) to identify the VTI parameters sensitive to the pelvic SUI conditions.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Twenty-seven parameters were identified as statistically sensitive to SUI development. They were subdivided into five groups to characterize tissue elasticity (group 1), pelvic support (group 2), pelvic muscle contraction (group 3), involuntary muscle relaxation (group 4), and pelvic muscle mobility (group 5). Every parameter was transformed to its standard deviation units using the dataset for normal pelvic conditions, similar to the T-score for bone density. Linear combinations with specified weights led to the composition of five component parameters for groups 1\u20135 and to the BI-score in standard deviation units. The <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> value for the BI-score has <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20094.0\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>\u201328<\/jats:sup> for SUI versus normal conditions.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Quantitative transformations of the pelvic tissues, support structures, and functions under diseased conditions may be studied with the SUI BI-score in future research and clinical applications.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s00192-024-05797-1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,13]],"date-time":"2024-05-13T10:02:03Z","timestamp":1715594523000},"page":"1245-1253","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Biomechanical Integrity Score of the Female Pelvic Floor for Stress Urinary Incontinence"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"35","author":[{"given":"Peter","family":"Takacs","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"D\u00e1vid","family":"R\u00e1tonyi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Erzs\u00e9bet","family":"Koroknai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Heather","family":"van Raalte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vincent","family":"Lucente","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vladimir","family":"Egorov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zoard Tibor","family":"Krasznai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7341-5942","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bence","family":"Kozma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"5797_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"428","DOI":"10.1067\/S0002-9378(03)00361-2","volume":"189","author":"F Grodstein","year":"2003","unstructured":"Grodstein F, Fretts R, Lifford K, Resnick N, Curhan G. 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