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Table 2 Measure of agreement between hand-held thermometer and thermal imaging device at five ROIs

From: Reliability of a novel thermal imaging system for temperature assessment of healthy feet

ROIs

Mean temperature difference (°C) between instrumentsa (95% C.I.)

P-value

ICC (95% C.I.)

1st toe

0.04 (− 0.01, 0.10)

0.18

0.95 (0.93; 0.97)

4th toe

0.03 (− 0.05, 0.12)

0.42

0.94 (0.92; 0.96)

1st metatarsal head

−0.01 (− 0.05, 0.04)

0.81

0.97 (0.95; 0.98)

3rd metatarsal head

0.11 (0.05, 0.17)

< 0.001

0.96 (0.94; 0.97)

5th metatarsal head

0.21 (0.16, 0.27)

< 0.001

0.94 (0.91; 0.96)

  1. aHand-held thermometer minus thermal imaging device