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DSCImageCalc – Software for Determining Similarity Coefficients for the Analysis of Image Segmentations

Journal of Open Research Software

Volume 5 (2017): Issue 1

By: Tom Lawton

Open Access

|Oct 2017

Abstract

DSCImageCalc is free software for calculating similarity coefficients on segmented images. It is written in Visual BASIC .NET and is available at: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.894428.

It presently calculates Sørensen-Dice Coefficient, Jaccard Coefficient, Proportional Agreement, Cohen’s Kappa, Goodman & Kruskal’s Gamma, and Rogot-Goldberg Agreement. It also calculates segment centroids and the distance between them.

Whilst it was originally designed for calculating Dice coefficients on segmentations of ultrasound images, it has potential for re-use in any field where similarity of image segments is to be analysed; predominantly medical radiology and ecology.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.16 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647

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Language: English

Submitted on: Jan 6, 2014

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Accepted on: Oct 6, 2017

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Published on: Oct 18, 2017

Published by: Ubiquity Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

segmentation analysis,

Dice coefficient,

image processing,

image similarity coefficient

© 2017 Tom Lawton, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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