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. 2016 Jun 10;11(6):e0155974. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155974

Table 2. Segmentation Metrics.

Segmentation Metric Formula
Mean/Dice Similarity Coefficient (MO) MO = 2r|SrTr|r(|Sr|+|Tr|)
Union Overlap/Jaccard Coefficient (UO) UO = r|SrTr|r|SrTr|
False Negative (FN) FN = r|Tr\Sr|r|Tr|
False Positive (FP) FP = r|Sr\Tr|r|Sr|
Volume Similarity/Relative Volume Difference (VS) VS = 2r(|Sr| |Tr|)r(|Sr|+|Tr|)
Distance Error (DEr) DEr = 1Pp=1pmindist (SrBp,TrB) where mindist = minimum distance from source region boundary point SrBp to entire target region boundary TrB.
Spatial Extent (SE) SE = vol(P>t) 0SEV where P(x,y,z) = 1Ni=1NLi(x,y,z)

Sr = Source Region (Image 1), Tr = Target Region (Image 2). There are several metrics for measuring overlap of two 3-dimensional images. Most studies focus on the Dice Similarity Coefficient or Mean Overlap. Due to its ubiquitous use this study will also use it as the main metric of comparison.