Table 2

Quantitative comparison between the proposed approach and alternative methods from the literature.

image quality

number of images

RMSd

CCC

PE (%)

ES (%)


Proposed method

high

20

2.14 ± 0.367

0.985 ± 0.011

2.49 ± 2.46

9.62 ± 7.9

average

23

2.53 ± 0.398

0.901 ± 0.024

7.56 ± 2.51

16.20 ± 8.23

low

17

2.99 ± 0.695

0.734 ± 0.101

15.10 ± 7.98

18.59 ± 7.02


Klingler Jr et al. [2]

acceptablea

121b

0.93


Choy and Jin [3]

high

10

1.7 ± 0.7

average

8

3.5 ± 1.0


Lacerda et al. [8]

high

7

10.65 ± 2.47

18.51 ± 5.06

average

5

18.06 ± 7.49

24.62 ± 7.89


Amorim et al. [10]

high

8

0.917

10.79 ± 2.95


a canine models;

b composite images, each obtained by averaging over ten cardiac cycles.

The mean (± standard deviation) results from each evaluation metric are shown for different image segmentation methods and different degrees of image quality.

Melo et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:5   doi:10.1186/1475-925X-9-5

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