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Table 3 Comparison of algorithm Stability and accuracy on 3 branch phantom

From: Validation of an arterial tortuosity measure with application to hypertension collection of clinical hypertensive patients

Phantom noise

Algorithm

Number of trees

Stability

RMSE of Accuracy

SD-10

COM

3

0.960

0.463

SD-10

MDFE

3

0.930

0.393

SD-10

DFE-COM

3

1.00

0.556

SD-20

COM

3

0.950

0.528

SD-20

MDFE

3

0.946

0.674

SD-20

DFE-COM

3

0.955

0.561

  1. The DFE-COM cost function shortest paths centerline algorithm had similar stability and accuracy to the COM based centerline algorithm. The MDFE cost algorithm accuracy degraded going from standard deviation (SD) 10 to 20 noise.