Research Article

Segmentation of Myocardial Boundaries in Tagged Cardiac MRI Using Active Contours: A Gradient-Based Approach Integrating Texture Analysis

Table 1

Average number of each type of pixels (expressed in percentage of the average total number of pixels of each pixel class within manual generated myocardium surface) for each of the 6 considered time steps of the systole.

Systole Step Step  1 Step  2 Step  3 Step  4 Step  5 Step  6

TP 87.2% 85.1% 81.4% 79.7% 82.1% 81.0%
FP 3.1% 2.9% 2.2% 2.1% 1.9% 2.1%
TN 92.1% 93.1% 89.3% 90.1% 94.3% 91.8%
FN 1.2% 1.6% 1.9% 2.3% 1.7% 2.1%