Research Article

Nonlocal Intracranial Cavity Extraction

Table 3

Segmentation results of SVE dataset using different quality measures. NICE was compared to the other two methods ( values). Best results are in bold (note that in this dataset, BEaST method obtained a significant higher sensitivity than NICE at the expense of a lower specificity).

MethodDICESensitivitySpecificity

NICE0.9819 ± 0.00240.9857 ± 0.00440.9960 ± 0.0015

BEAST0.9781 ± 0.0047 0.9887 ± 0.00350.9940 ± 0.0025 
( = 9.82 × 10−7)( = 0.0001)( = 2.11 × 10−5)

VBM80.9760 ± 0.0025 0.9840 ± 0.0046 0.9942 ± 0.0014 
( = 2.56 × 10−15)( = 0.06)( = 4.31 × 10−8)