Research Article

Nonrigid 3D Medical Image Registration and Fusion Based on Deformable Models

Table 2

Comparison of segmentation quality between experts (averaged) and our program.

Expert DSC (mm) (mm) U GC

1 0.977 0.297 3.590 0.927 0.307
2 0.978 0.358 2.816 0.926 0.303
3 0.970 0.431 6.084 0.926 0.308
4 0.966 0.556 3.862 0.927 0.313
5 0.963 0.546 4.555 0.926 0.307

Mean 0.971 0.438 4.181 0.927 0.308

Program 0.958 0.575 4.482 0.927 0.311

DSC: dice similarity coefficient. : averaged contour misalignment. : Hausdorff distance. : intraregion uniformity. GC: signal contrast.