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Metrics for evaluating 3D medical image segmentation: analysis, selection, and tool

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Imaging, August 2015
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Title
Metrics for evaluating 3D medical image segmentation: analysis, selection, and tool
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BMC Medical Imaging, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12880-015-0068-x
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Authors

Abdel Aziz Taha, Allan Hanbury

Abstract

Medical Image segmentation is an important image processing step. Comparing images to evaluate the quality of segmentation is an essential part of measuring progress in this research area. Some of the challenges in evaluating medical segmentation are: metric selection, the use in the literature of multiple definitions for certain metrics, inefficiency of the metric calculation implementations leading to difficulties with large volumes, and lack of support for fuzzy segmentation by existing metrics. First we present an overview of 20 evaluation metrics selected based on a comprehensive literature review. For fuzzy segmentation, which shows the level of membership of each voxel to multiple classes, fuzzy definitions of all metrics are provided. We present a discussion about metric properties to provide a guide for selecting evaluation metrics. Finally, we propose an efficient evaluation tool implementing the 20 selected metrics. The tool is optimized to perform efficiently in terms of speed and required memory, also if the image size is extremely large as in the case of whole body MRI or CT volume segmentation. An implementation of this tool is available as an open source project. We propose an efficient evaluation tool for 3D medical image segmentation using 20 evaluation metrics and provide guidelines for selecting a subset of these metrics that is suitable for the data and the segmentation task.

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Country Count As %
Canada 2 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Unknown 1617 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 323 20%
Student > Master 232 14%
Researcher 157 10%
Student > Bachelor 157 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 74 5%
Other 154 9%
Unknown 527 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 322 20%
Computer Science 290 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 166 10%
Physics and Astronomy 60 4%
Neuroscience 30 2%
Other 145 9%
Unknown 611 38%
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