Table 1 Dice ratio and 95th percentile Hausdorff distance (HD95) of cerebellum segmentation results on 50 testing subjects (N = 10 for each time point) at 18, 12, 9, 6, and ≤3 months of age from BCP (mean ± standard deviation)

From: Self-supervised learning with application for infant cerebellum segmentation and analysis

Age (Month)

N

Method

CSF

GM

WM

   

Dice ratio (%)

HD95 (mm)

Dice ratio (%)

HD95 (mm)

Dice ratio (%)

HD95 (mm)

18

10

volBrain

N/A

N/A

76.30 ± 3.01*

16.37 ± 3.06

53.18 ± 2.67*

25.18 ± 1.63*

Infant FreeSurfer

N/A

N/A

71.28 ± 4.43*

16.16 ± 2.22*

58.24 ± 2.01*

16.42 ± 1.95*

Multi-atlas-based method

53.03 ± 6.28*

11.96 ± 3.01*

68.90 ± 6.89*

11.41 ± 2.24

65.46 ± 9.06*

8.94 ± 2.74

ASD-Net

73.65 ± 2.44*

12.89 ± 1.53*

85.19 ± 0.12*

11.36 ± 2.77

88.28 ± 1.46*

6.51 ± 3.31

ADU-Net

87.17 ± 6.22

10.46 ± 2.01

91.57 ± 3.10

13.98 ± 2.66

92.79 ± 2.50

6.56 ± 3.62

Proposed

89.45 ± 1.96

9.68 ± 1.75

92.12 ± 0.95

12.81 ± 4.45

93.02 ± 0.61

5.92 ± 2.91

12

10

volBrain

N/A

N/A

74.20 ± 8.91*

19.92 ± 4.01

51.47 ± 3.37*

22.84 ± 0.33*

Infant FreeSurfer

N/A

N/A

67.63 ± 8.57*

15.70 ± 3.12*

56.39 ± 7.65*

15.07 ± 2.02*

Multi-atlas-based method

52.62 ± 10.70*

14.85 ± 1.64*

71.66 ± 3.39*

17.10 ± 2.35*

66.15 ± 3.71*

8.50 ± 1.96*

ASD-Net

81.22 ± 4.04*

13.56 ± 1.36*

85.05 ± 1.93*

12.30 ± 1.62

84.57 ± 1.96*

6.25 ± 0.72

ADU-Net

88.72 ± 9.61

11.67 ± 2.55

88.59 ± 2.68

14.52 ± 2.50

88.08 ± 1.68*

6.81 ± 1.38

Proposed

90.07 ± 1.68

9.18 ± 2.42

91.66 ± 1.59

10.58 ± 5.14

92.05 ± 2.65

5.58 ± 1.40

9

10

volBrain

N/A

N/A

77.27 ± 4.28*

16.89 ± 1.43

51.63 ± 1.21*

21.02 ± 1.06*

Infant FreeSurfer

N/A

N/A

69.86 ± 6.70*

17.64 ± 4.38*

55.15 ± 8.70*

18.28 ± 5.96*

Multi-atlas-based method

33.93 ± 2.44*

17.48 ± 1.44*

63.78 ± 0.90*

21.88 ± 4.96*

63.60 ± 2.30*

9.28 ± 0.92

ASD-Net

76.33 ± 5.22*

14.09 ± 1.65*

83.30 ± 2.63*

13.37 ± 4.43*

84.28 ± 2.54*

7.29 ± 2.83

ADU-Net

87.64 ± 6.91

10.81 ± 2.35*

88.45 ± 1.65*

16.61 ± 5.45

87.49 ± 2.41*

7.80 ± 2.64

Proposed

87.10 ± 2.56

7.39 ± 2.83

90.96 ± 1.87

16.46 ± 4.29

92.30 ± 3.07

6.76 ± 3.25

6

10

volBrain

N/A

N/A

74.23 ± 6.18*

17.78 ± 1.99

48.65 ± 4.87*

19.54 ± 3.73*

Infant FreeSurfer

N/A

N/A

67.81 ± 5.42*

15.25 ± 1.55

59.78 ± 5.66*

14.78 ± 1.41*

Multi-atlas-based method

32.27 ± 3.19*

17.62 ± 0.57*

67.81 ± 5.42*

16.52 ± 1.55*

63.62 ± 6.15*

9.97 ± 1.89*

ASD-Net

71.57 ± 3.81*

14.76 ± 2.30*

81.14 ± 4.38*

14.08 ± 7.91

83.76 ± 3.59*

11.46 ± 9.48

ADU-Net

82.63 ± 7.88

15.69 ± 7.05

87.49 ± 2.52*

16.71 ± 6.83

87.80 ± 1.75*

11.53 ± 9.19

Proposed

84.46 ± 2.15

10.80 ± 1.77

89.52 ± 1.30

13.37 ± 3.05

91.12 ± 1.60

5.02 ± 0.79

≤3

10

volBrain

N/A

N/A

73.94 ± 4.95

18.24 ± 5.00

50.64 ± 2.66*

23.22 ± 5.71*

Infant FreeSurfer

N/A

N/A

59.40 ± 3.06*

17.82 ± 7.22

26.30 ± 2.08*

20.00 ± 1.67*

Multi-atlas-based method

26.16 ± 9.73*

16.37 ± 0.77*

57.67 ± 8.26*

16.14 ± 1.49

64.70 ± 13.39*

11.45 ± 3.83*

ASD-Net

73.64 ± 6.39*

13.12 ± 2.50*

77.42 ± 7.30*

15.70 ± 9.69

81.71 ± 6.66*

6.41 ± 1.17

ADU-Net

76.67 ± 4.81*

10.90 ± 1.45*

80.65 ± 8.35*

16.96 ± 9.50

83.96 ± 7.61*

7.73 ± 1.52*

Proposed

83.87 ± 8.87

8.86 ± 1.02

87.75 ± 9.18

16.04 ± 10.47

90.39 ± 8.59

5.97 ± 1.06

  1. The symbol “*” indicates that our proposed SSL method is significantly better than volBrain22, Infant FreeSurfer23, multi-atlas-based method24, ASD-Net25, and ADU-Net26, with p value <0.05 (Wilcoxon signed-rank test, two-sided).