Research Article

A General System for Automatic Biomedical Image Segmentation Using Intensity Neighborhoods

Table 4

Quantitative comparison of nuclei segmentation.

Algorithm RI JI Hausdorff NSD ( ) Split Merged Added Missing

AS manual 95% 2.4 9.7 0.5 1.6 1.0 0.8 2.2
RC threshold 92% 2.2 34.8 1.2 1.1 2.4 0.3 5.5
Otsu threshold 92% 2.2 34.9 1.2 1.1 2.4 0.3 5.6
Mean threshold 96% 2.2 26.5 1.0 1.3 3.4 0.9 3.6
Watershed (direct) 91% 1.9 34.9 3.6 13.8 1.2 2.0 3.0
Watershed (gradient) 90% 1.8 34.6 3.0 7.7 2.0 2.0 2.9
Active masks 87% 2.1 148.3 5.5 10.5 2.1 0.4 10.8
Merging algorithm 96% 2.2 12.9 0.7 1.8 2.1 1.0 3.3
Our result 97% 2.5 119.3 0.8 0.8 2.8 3.5 0.3