EXACT'09 results

Evaluation results, detailed description of the dataset and the evaluation framework is available in:

P. Lo, B. van Ginneken, J.M. Reinhardt, Y Tarunashree, P.A. de Jong, B Irving, C Fetita, M Ortner, R Pinho, J. Sijbers, M Feuerstein, A Fabijanska, C Bauer, R Beichel, C.S. Mendoza, R. Wiemker, J. Lee, A.P. Reeves, S. Born, O Weinheimer, E.M. van Rikxoort, J Tschirren, K Mori, B Odry, D.P. Naidich, I.J. Hartmann, E.A. Hoffman, M. Prokop, J.H. Pedersen and M. de Bruijne, "Extraction of Airways from CT (EXACT’09)", in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 31, pp. 2093-2107, 2012 [link][PDF]




The table below shows the average results of the participating teams, with links to the renderings and description of the individual teams.

CategoryBranch countBranch detected (%)Tree length (cm)Tree length detected (%)Leakage countLeakage volume (mm3)False positive rate
CADTBAutomated91.143.564.636.42.5152.31.27  
ARTEMIS-TMSPAutomated157.862.8122.455.912.0563.51.96  
UAVisionLabInteractive74.232.151.926.94.2430.43.63  
NagoyaLoopersAutomated186.876.5158.773.335.55138.215.56  
DIKUAutomated150.459.8118.454.01.918.20.11  
VOLCEDInteractive77.536.754.431.32.3116.30.92  
TubeLinkAutomated146.857.9125.255.26.5576.62.44  
SevillaInteractive71.530.952.026.90.9126.81.75  
PhilipsResearchLabHamburgAutomated139.056.0100.647.113.5368.91.58  
VIAAutomated79.332.457.828.10.414.30.11  
ICCAS-VCMInteractive93.541.765.734.51.939.20.41  
yactaTreeTracerAutomated130.153.895.846.65.6559.02.47  
GVFTubeSegAutomated152.163.0122.458.45.0372.41.44  
WEB2Automated161.467.2115.457.044.11873.47.27  
Iowa-1Interactive148.763.1119.258.910.4158.81.19  


Average false positive rate versus tree length detected of all participating teams, with teams in the semi-automated category in red.

(1) CADTB(2) ARTEMIS-TMSP(3) UAVisionLab(4) NagoyaLoopers(5) DIKU
(6) VOLCED(7) TubeLink(8) Sevilla(9) PhilipsResearchLabHamburg(10) VIA
(11) ICCAS-VCM(12) yactaTreeTracer(13) GVFTubeSeg(14) WEB2(15) Iowa-1



The following table shows the branch count and tree length of the reference for the test cases.

Branch countTree length (cm)
CASE21200120.26
CASE22388341.48
CASE23285271.32
CASE24187185.78
CASE25235270.15
CASE268183.17
CASE2710294.35
CASE28124122.04
CASE29185150.29
CASE30196164.35
CASE31215188.41
CASE32234231.36
CASE33169159.57
CASE34459368.83
CASE35345320.37
CASE36365422.60
CASE37186190.32
CASE389978.16
CASE39521420.14
CASE40390399.31