Evaluation of Blood Vessel Segmentation Methods on Hard-to-Detect Vascular Structures

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2406.13128v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Due to the intricate structure of vascular trees, minor segmentation errors can significantly alter connectivity patterns and increase variability in extracted morphological properties. Global metrics such as the Dice coefficient, precision, and recall often overlook inaccuracies in specific regions of a sample. To address this, we define a Local Vessel Salience (LVS) index to quantify the difficulty of identifying specific vessel segments. This index is used to evaluate the performance of 16 segmentation methods across six widely used 2D datasets. The LVS index is calculated for each vessel pixel by comparing local vessel intensity against the surrounding background. We introduce a metric termed mean Low-Salience Recall (mLSR) to q