Comparative Study on Automated Cell Nuclei Segmentation Methods for Cytology Pleural Effusion Images

Table 1

Quantitative experimental results.

Methods/evaluation	Pre	Re	Fm	JI	DSC (%)
Otsu’s method	0.91	0.89	0.90	0.89	94
Isodata	0.86	0.84	0.85	0.84	91
Maximum entropy	0.84	0.94	0.88	0.94	91
Cross entropy	0.94	0.82	0.87	0.82	90
Minimum error	0.85	0.82	0.83	0.82	89
Fuzzy entropy	0.68	0.67	0.68	0.67	80
Adaptive thresholding	0.96	0.50	0.66	0.50	67
k-means	0.90	0.89	0.89	0.89	94
Fuzzy c-means	0.94	0.77	0.85	0.77	77
Mean shift	0.93	0.91	0.92	0.91	95
Chan–Vese method	0.89	0.87	0.88	0.87	94
Graph-based min cut	0.87	0.95	0.91	0.87	93