Extracting Information about the Rotator Cuff from Magnetic Resonance Images Using Deterministic and Random Techniques

Table 2

Average computing time to generate points on the octant of an ellipsoid of revolution (seconds).

Method	= 1035	= 10011	= 50086
approximation	0.001318	0.003352	0.010890
Acceptance-rejection	0.013956	0.125176	0.636031
Hastings	0.406324	2.225163	10.38507
Bernstein representation	0.003517	0.026096	0.126542
De Casteljau algorithm	0.002904	0.044050	0.212913