Table 1. Quantitative performance results of yeast segmentation algorithms.

Method	%Cells	%Cells	# of Contours	PPV3	CPU
	Detected1	Segmented2	Generated		time4
CellStat [9]	73.0%	10.2%	9164	18.8%	2382.5
CellSerpent [10]	99.8%	32.0%	104122	11.3%	1887.7
PombeX	97.0%	86.4%	18125	86.9%	135.7
PombeX w/o FP	94.5%	70.8%	19594	71.1%	125.0

¹ Relative to all cells.

% pixel mismatch compared to gold standard cell contours, relative to all cells.² Defined as the percentage of cell contours with less than 10

³ Relative to all contours.

CPU@3.40 GHz, 4 GB RAM).⁴ Average CPU time per image, measured using a regular desktop PC (Windows 7, Matlab R2011a, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600