Automatic Spine Tissue Segmentation from MRI Data Based on Cascade of Boosted Classifiers and Active Appearance Model

Table 6

10-fold cross-validation comparison (percentage) of True Positive Fraction (TPF), False Negative Fraction (FNF), and False Fraction (FF) for automatically segmented data using presented method and ground truth annotations (significance level ). : standard deviation for True Positive Fraction, : standard deviation for False Negative Fraction, : standard deviation for False Fraction.

-fold	TPF	FNF	FF
1				6.50	6.50	7.02
2				3.91	3.91	5.47
3				4.41	4.41	8.75
4				4.35	4.35	5.00
5				4.32	4.32	5.14
6				3.88	3.88	4.80
7				4.17	4.17	5.42
8				3.50	3.50	4.82
9				3.64	3.64	5.02
10				5.60	5.60	6.17
Mean				4.43	4.43	5.76