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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Oncol. 2014 Oct 3;54(4):557–560. doi: 10.3109/0284186X.2014.953638

Table 1.

Calculated Metrics Derived From TaCTICS

Symbolic Expression Represents Perfect
Segmentation
Complete
Discordance
Target
Overlap
TO=AGG The portion of the gold-standard which is
overlapped by the segmentation
1 0
Union
Overlap
(Jaccard)
J=2AGAG The portion of overlap between the gold-
standard and segmentation relative to the size
of the union of the gold-standard and
segmentation
1 0
Mean
Overlap
(Dice)
D=2AGA+G The portion of overlap between the gold-
standard and segmentation relative to the size
of the gold-standard plus the size of the
segmentation
1 0
Volumetric
Difference
VD=VaVgVg The difference in volume between the
segmentation and the gold-standard as a
portion of the volume of the gold standard
0 Varies (> 0)
False
Negative
Dice
FND=2AGA+G The volume that the segmentation missed of
the gold-standard relative to the size of the
gold-standard plus the size of the
segmentation
0 Varies (> 0)
False
Positive
Dice
FPD=2AGA+G The volume of the segmentation not found
within the gold-standard relative to the size of
the gold-standard plus the size of the
segmentation
0 Varies (> 0)
95%
Hausdorff
Distance
(HD)
H(A,G)=max(h(A,G),h(G,A))h(A,G)=maxaA(d(A,G))&d(A,G)=minggag
The maximum distance between a point in the
segmentation and that of the gold-standard if
5% of the outliers are thrown out
0 Large