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122 Chapter 7. Airway Tree Segmentation
Table 7.3: Summary of performance measures for different airway tree extraction methods.
Branch Branch Tree Tree length Leakage Leakage False
Nr. method count detected length detected count volume positive
(%) (cm) (%) (mm 3 ) rate (%)
automated methods
1 Irving et al. [57] 91.1 43.5 64.6 36.4 2.5 152.3 1.27
2 Fetita et al. [36] 157.8 62.8 122.4 55.9 12.0 563.5 1.96
4 Feuerstein et al. [38] 186.8 76.5 158.7 73.3 35.5 5138.2 15.56
5 Lo et al. [87] 150.4 59.8 118.4 54.0 1.9 18.2 0.11
7 proposed tree reconstruction 146.8 57.9 125.2 55.2 6.5 576.6 2.44
approach (Section 7.2.2)
9 Wiemker et al. [160] 139.0 56.0 100.6 47.1 13.5 368.9 1.58
10 Lee et al. [76] 79.3 32.4 57.8 28.1 0.4 14.3 0.11
12 Weinheimer et al. [158] 130.1 53.8 95.8 46.6 5.6 559.0 2.47
13 proposed GVF based 152.1 63.0 122.4 58.4 5.0 372.4 1.44
approach (Section 7.2.1)
14 Rikxoort et al. [154] 161.4 67.2 115.4 57.0 44.1 1873.4 7.27
semi-automated methods
3 Pinho et al. [112] 74.2 32.1 51.9 26.9 4.2 430.4 3.63
6 Fabijanska [35] 77.5 36.7 54.4 31.3 2.3 116.3 0.92
8 Mendoza et al. [100] 71.5 30.9 52.0 26.9 0.9 126.8 1.75
11 Born et al. [13] 93.5 41.7 65.7 34.5 1.9 39.2 0.41
15 Tschirren et al. [147] 148.7 63.1 119.2 58.9 10.4 158.8 1.19