Left ventricular segmentation from MRI datasets with edge modelling conditional random fields

BMC Medical Imaging

Table 1 Comparison of contour errors

Authors	Technique	Inner contour	Outer contour
		error [mm]	error [mm]
Our method	CRF	1.57	1.78
Our method (without subjects 8 and 27)	CRF	1.49	1.74
Andreopoulos and Tsotsos [9]	AAM	1.43	1.51
Üzümcü [23]	Landmark tracking	1.86	1.77
Jolly [14]	Shortest path	2.44	2.05
Cordero-Grande et al. [13]	Edge MRF	1.37	1.22
Lorenzo-Valdés et al. [24]	Surface MRF	2.99	2.21

Average segmentations errors as reported by different authors. These results are not strictly comparable since they are based on different datasets and the error criteria differ. Refer to the individual papers for more detail.

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