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Table 1 Quantitative evaluation of segmentation results for the five methods

From: A shape-optimized framework for kidney segmentation in ultrasound images using NLTV denoising and DRLSE

Method

SN

SP

PPV

DRLSE

0.97±0.02

0.88±0.02

0.78±0.08

DRLSE with NLTV

0.99±0.01

0.94±0.02

0.89±0.04

Bression’s method

0.81±0.10

0.91±0.06

0.80±0.07

Bression’s method with NLTV

0.87±0.04

0.93±0.05

0.87±0.07

Our method

0.96±0.02

0.95±0.02

0.91±0.04

  1. The average and standard deviation of the SN, SP and PPV across the kidney US images are provided.