Research Article
Geodesic Distance Algorithm for Extracting the Ascending Aorta from 3D CT Images
Table 1
DSC values to compare accuracy of the proposed method and computation time.
| Data# | Quality | DSC | Number of slices | Computation time (sec) | Proposed method | Workstation |
| 000 | Good | 0.9714 | 0.9092 | 227 | 1.8820 | 001 | Good | 0.9500 | 0.8917 | 219 | 0.9310 | 002 | Good | 0.9511 | 0.8873 | 213 | 1.1150 | 003 | Moderate | 0.9660 | 0.9226 | 243 | 1.9100 | 004 | Moderate | 0.9548 | 0.9091 | 206 | 1.2480 | 005 | Moderate | 0.9397 | 0.8935 | 247 | 1.8140 | 006 | Moderate | 0.9230 | 0.9047 | 275 | 1.9670 | 007 | Poor | 0.9493 | 0.9313 | 269 | 1.8170 | 008 | Poor | 0.9628 | 0.9178 | 245 | 1.5430 | 009 | Poor | 0.9295 | 0.9045 | 134 | 0.9610 |
| Average | 0.9498 | 0.9072 | 228 | 1.5188 |
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