TABLE 3.

Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) comparison to the published state-of-the-art methods on the 2015 PDDCA dataset

Organ	Proposed	Method of43	Method of14	Method of10	Method of44
Brain Stem	0.93 ± 0.02	0.88 ± 0.02	0.87 ± 0.03	0.87 ±0.03	0.87 ± 0. 02
Optic Chiasm	0.73 ± 0.15	0.45 ± 0.17	0.58 ± 0.1	0.62 ± 0.1	0.53 ± 0.15
Mandible	0.97 ± 0.01	0.93 ± 0.02	0.87 ± 0.03	0.95 ± 0.01	0.93 ± 0.02
Left Optic Nerve	0.80 ± 0.07	0.74 ± 0.15	0.65 ± 0.05	0.75 ± 0.07	0.72 ± 0.06
Right Optic Nerve	0.80 ± 0.08	0.74 ± 0.09	0.69 ± 0.5	0.72 ± 0.06	0.71 ± 0.1
Left Parotid	0.89 ± 0.05	0.86 ± 0.02	0.84 ± 0.02	0.89 ± 0.02	0.88 ± 0.02
Right Parotid	0.88 ± 0.06	0.85 ± 0.07	0.83 ± 0.02	0.88 ± 0.05	0.87 ± 0.04
Left Submandibular	0.88 ± 0.05	0.76 ± 0.15	0.76 ± 0.06	0.82 ± 0.05	0.81 ± 0.04
Right Submandibular	0.85 ± 0.11	0.73 ± 0.01	0.81 ± 0.06	0.82 ± 0.05	0.81 ± 0.04

Note: Bold indicates the best performance achieved among the comparing methods.