Automated Image Analysis of Lung Branching Morphogenesis from Microscopic Images of Fetal Rat Explants

Table 2

DSC scores of LBM analysis comparing the manual and automatic methods when the study was made in different culture days and image of types.

	Days of culture
		1	2	3	4	5
Inner epithelial DSC %	A images	92.85 ± 3.87	91.54 ± 6.12	90.87 ± 6.88	88.80 ± 9.96	86.72 ± 8.75
	B images	89.99 ± 5.32	87.74 ± 9.79	87.06 ± 8.29	82.26 ± 14.64	79.15 ± 13.33
Outer counter DSC %	A images	98.09 ± 2.48	99.05 ± 3.49	97.56 ± 5.31	96.28 ± 3.75	97.12 ± 2.03
	B images	95.48 ± 6.61	94.54 ± 8.37	95.89 ± 12.30	94.64 ± 13.46	94.71 ± 13.42
Peripheral buds error	A images	1.0 ± 1.8	2.6 ± 2.3	4.7 ± 5.8	4.4 ± 6.0	10.3 ± 7.7
	B images	1.3 ± 2.4	2.2 ± 3.1	6.5 ± 5.3	7.8 ± 6.2	12.5 ± 7.4