Table 6.

Average validation metrics comparing automatic 25 lumbar vertebrae segmentation results, using strong shape-based priors, with corresponding manually corrected segmentation of patients in MR images.

Validation metric	L1	L2	L3	L4	L5	Total
MASD (mm)	0.176	1.182	0.72	0.491	0.22	0.685
Absolute std. dev. (mm)	0.148	0.054	0.133	0.147	0.254	0.147
MSD (mm)	0.288	0.486	0.20	0.316	0.19	0.297
Avg. Hausdorff distance (mm)	1.068	1.162	1.629	1.189	0.863	1.182
DICE coefficient	0.984	0.989	0.978	0.976	0.981	0.982