. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 3.

Published in final edited form as: Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2012;7509:103–114. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-33530-3_9

Table 1.

Parameters indicating difficulty of multiatlas segmentation and the underlying convergence behavior (of segmentation MSE with increasing database sizes M_j) for anatomical structures in brain MR images (using 186 atlases)

Parameters	Caudate	Globus Pallidus	Hippocampus	Putamen	Thalamus
δ: randomness	0.15	0.26	0.20	0.18	0.11
β: complexity	0.03	0.10	0.06	0.08	0.03
D: dimension	10.1	10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0