Dependence of Shape-Based Descriptors and Mass Segmentation Areas on Initial Contour Placement Using the Chan-Vese Method on Digital Mammograms

Table 8

Summary results of linear regression analysis for tuneable parameters , and , and the selective local or global segmentation method.

	Tuneable parameters						Selective local or global segmentation method
	,			,
	Slope		value	Slope		value	Slope		value
	0.76	0.76	<0.0001	0.83	0.81	<0.0001	0.69	0.81	<0.0001
	0.79	0.77	<0.0001	0.72	0.80	<0.0001	0.75	0.86	<0.0001
	0.62	0.68	<0.0001	0.75	0.74	<0.0001	0.7	0.74	<0.0001
SC	0.85	0.82	<0.0001	0.93	0.88	<0.0001	0.88	0.83	<0.0001
SR	0.92	0.82	<0.0001	0.82	0.88	<0.0001	0.85	0.94	<0.0001