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. 2021 Mar 7;48(12):3990–4001. doi: 10.1007/s00259-021-05265-8

Table 1.

Average segmentation performance over ten replicates evaluated using the Dice scores when segmenting low, medium, and high uptake simulated sphere regions from surrounding backgrounds. Standard deviation in parentheses

Dice scores
Segmentation region Voxel representation Hierarchical clustering Spectral clustering K-means clustering Rad-FIT clustering
Low uptake sphere Time activity curves 0.15 (0) 0.04 (0.001) 0.13 (0.06) 0.24 (0.07)
FPC 0.67 (0) 0.16 (0.03) 0.65 (0.02) 0.70 (0.01)
Medium uptake sphere Time activity curves 0.77 (< 0.001) 0.06 (0.01) 0.44 (0.4) 0.73 (< .001)
FPC 0.78 (0) 0.20 (0.18) 0.84 (0.03) 0.85 (0)
High uptake sphere Time activity curves 0.72 (0) 0.18 (0.07) 0.52 (0.40) 0.66 (0)
FPC 0.83 (0) 0.17 (0.03) 0.84 (0) 0.86 (0)