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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 7.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2013 Oct 10;58(21):7625–7646. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/21/7625

Table 2.

Preliminary assessment of cost function accuracy (AvDistErr) and sensitivity (Spearman’s Rank Correlation) to changes in pose using randomly distributed transformations about the truth for all simulated motion cases. Note that large correlation and small AvDistErr are desired.

MSD NCC PI NMI MI EDI
Scheme A: Narrow Spearman’s Rank Correlation 0.45±0.16 0.54±0.14 0.36±0.19 0.40±0.17 0.37±0.14 −0.14±0.17
AvDistErr (mm) 5.09±2.29 3.83±2.01 4.25±2.80 5.93±1.63 5.7±1.21 8.87±1.96
Scheme B: Narrow Spearman’s Rank Correlation 0.44±0.16 0.47±0.14 0.42±0.12 0.42±0.16 0.37±0.21 −0.16±0.16
AvDistErr (mm) 5.04±1.12 5.28±2.71 4.72±2.66 4.76±1.68 5.28±1.73 7.94±1.63
Scheme A: Broad Spearman’s Rank Correlation 0.68±0.05 0.68±0.04 0.65±0.04 0.72±0.04 0.71±0.05 −0.13±0.12
AvDistErr (mm) 8.50±9.67 8.55±9.67 7.01±9.15 6.86±9.15 1.45±3.41 34.56±6.72
Scheme B: Broad Spearman’s Rank Correlation 0.66±0.04 0.70±0.05 0.66±0.05 0.73±0.05 0.71±0.06 −0.15±0.16
AvDistErr (mm) 4.11±7.80 4.81±7.80 7.19±9.11 5.74±8.83 0.75±2.62 24.28±18.73