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Measurements were performed by clinical radiologists, a trained research reader serving as ground truth, and a commercial AI software. Inter-rater reliability was determined via intraclass correlation coefficients between an orthopedic surgeon and the trained reader (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200950 images). Performance of both the AI and radiologists was statistically compared to the ground truth using mean absolute error, intraclass correlation coefficients, the Spearman correlation, and diagnostic accuracy metrics (sensitivity, specificity, predictive values).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Four hundred ninety-five radiographs were analyzed. Inter-rater reliability between human raters, assessed via intraclass correlation coefficients, was excellent (0.94\u20131). Agreement between the algorithm and ground truth, also assessed via intraclass correlation coefficients, was good to excellent (0.79\u20130.99), except for lumbar lordosis (0.68, moderate). Mean absolute errors were lowest for coronal Cobb angles (4,6\u00b0; 95% confidence interval = 3.6\u20135.5\u00b0) and highest for lumbar lordosis (8.1\u00b0; 95% confidence interval = 6.9\u20139.3\u00b0). The Spearman rank correlations ranged from 0.74 to 0.99, and sensitivity was moderate to excellent (72.6\u201394.8). These results closely matched those obtained when comparing radiologists to ground truth. In a subgroup of patients with prior spinal fusion surgery, the correlation between the algorithm predictions and the ground truth was reduced, and measurement deviations were higher compared to non-instrumented patients.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The commercial AI software predicted most spinopelvic parameters with good reliability and accuracy, coinciding with radiologists in clinical practice, however, showed limitations in patients with spinal instrumentation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s00256-026-05289-x","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,4]],"date-time":"2026-07-04T02:09:18Z","timestamp":1783130958000},"page":"2627-2635","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Diagnostic accuracy of artificial intelligence for spinopelvic parameters in standing total spine X-ray and limitations after fusion surgery"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"55","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-0618-0714","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tobias","family":"Winkler","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Thilo","family":"Khakzad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0885-7370","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Matthias","family":"Pumberger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9224-7363","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Friederike","family":"Sch\u00f6mig","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-1267-8854","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Matthias","family":"Becher","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3593-1449","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Torsten","family":"Diekhoff","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,4]]},"reference":[{"issue":"6","key":"5289_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"886","DOI":"10.31616\/asj.2020.0568","volume":"14","author":"HJ Kim","year":"2020","unstructured":"Kim HJ, Yang JH, Chang DG, et al. 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