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Published in final edited form as: Med Image Anal. 2014 Nov 23;20(1):198–207. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2014.11.006

Table 3.

Segmentation results of the genioglossus and inferior longitudinalis tongue muscles in terms of mean (±standard deviation) Dice coefficient κ and symmetric surface distance δ for the second observer, game-theoretic framework (GTF), B-splines atlasing and demons atlasing.

Method	Genioglossus muscle		Inferior longitudinalis muscle		Both muscles
Method	κ (%)	δ (mm)	κ (%)	δ (mm)	κ (%)	δ (mm)
Second observer	88.3 ± 1.9	0.71 ± 0.11	69.0 ± 3.7	0.93 ± 0.22	85.3 ± 2.0	0.79 ± 0.14
GTF	84.8 ± 3.7	1.00 ± 0.20	61.4 ± 7.7	1.03 ± 0.18	81.8 ± 3.2	1.02 ± 0.19
B-splines atlasing	81.6 ± 6.1	1.09 ± 0.37	60.5 ± 9.0	1.11 ± 0.31	78.8 ± 5.5	1.10 ± 0.32
Demons atlasing	79.0 ± 6.4	1.26 ± 0.42	53.5 ± 11.9	1.29 ± 0.48	75.8 ± 6.6	1.27 ± 0.45