Head and Neck Cancer Tumor Segmentation Using Support Vector Machine in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI

Table 1

Comparisons of PM and CR between the segmentation performance obtained by the proposed SVM method and other methods in literature.

Studies	Algorithm	CR	PM
Huang et al. [5]	HMRF	0.72	0.85
Ritthipravat et al. [6]	Probabilistic Function	0.52	0.85
Zhou et al. [7]	SVM	0.72 ± 0.06	0.79 ± 0.07
Our proposed method	SVM	0.79 ± 0.09	0.86 ± 0.08

Corresponding ratio. Percent match. Hidden Markov random field. Support vector machine.