Ratsnake: a versatile image annotation tool with application to computer-aided diagnosis.
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...1B), publicly available software for image annotation.(5) Annotated images were exported as masks, ie, black-and-white frames in which any pathology is depicted as white area on a black background (Fig....
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...However, it has a high complexity and does not directly address the issue of automated lesion detection.(5) A methodology designed for the detection of a wide variety of lesions, regardless of their type or size, should be able to overcome such limitations....
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...Semantic and graphic annotations are supported by an open access, platform-independent annotation tool (Ratsnake) [8]....
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...Representative examples include the gradient vector field [33] and the boundary vector field models [34], which efficiently cope with the well-known limitations of the original snake model [3]....
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...The efficiency of this tool relies on a simple graphical user interface (GUI), featuring complementary graphic annotation protocols and a properly modified snake model [3], which in its original form enables semiautomatic image segmentation....
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...Tenfold cross-validation has been adopted as a widely accepted method to assess classification accuracy [45]; that is, the dataset was randomly split into 10 mutually exclusive subsets, leaving out one set for testing and using the other nine as training, exhaustively, until all of them serve as testing sets....
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...The results obtained per class are presented in Table 2, where class precision and recall refer to the capability of the classifier to identify relevant image samples and to correctly label them, respectively [46]....
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...The semantic annotations of LabelMe are based on free text or a lexical database called WordNet [29]....
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