Table 2.

Comparison of average nucleus segmentation performance of LAGC (Zhang et al., 2014b), superpixels GC (Song et al., 2015) and our graph-search based methods on abnormal cervical cells from HEMLBC dataset (Zhang et al., 2014b). Bold values indicate the highest performance for each automated method.

Methods	Precision	Recall	F-measure	Overlap
Zhang et al. (2014b)	0.88 ±0.14	0.91 ± 0.07	0.884 ±0.08	0.81 ±0.12
Song et al. (2015)	0.90 ± NA	0.91 ± NA	0.897 ± NA	0.83 ± NA
Our method	0.91 ± 0.04	0.96 ± 0.04	0.930 ± 0.03	0.87 ± 0.05
Intra-observer	0.94 ± 0.04	0.96 ± 0.03	0.953 ± 0.02	0.91 ± 0.03