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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 23.
Published in final edited form as: Skin Res Technol. 2009 Nov;15(4):444–450. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2009.00387.x

TABLE 1.

Definitions of true/false positive/negative

Detected pixel

Actual pixel Lesion Background
Lesion True positive (TP) False negative (FN)
Background False positive (FP) True negative (TN)

‘Actual’ and ‘detected’ pixels refer to a pixel in the manual border and the corresponding pixel in the automatic border, respectively.